Wednesday 28 February 2007

S3 TEST WARNING

You have been studying population and migration since the start of this term. Your test on this topic will be next Friday, the 9th March. Your migration homework is due on the 2nd of March. For your test make sure you can do the following:

Describe and explain changes in world population, using the DTM as a model.

Use a population pyramid to describe and explain current and future issues within ELDC's and EMDC's

Describe and explain reasons behind population distribution.

Explain why a census is collected and what problems their can be in their collection.

Describe and explain the problems in a growing population and suggest some solutions e.g. China's One Child Policy.

Describe and explain the problems of an ageing population e.g. Scotland.

Describe and explain reasons behind Migration in terms of Push and Pull factors.

Give examples of concequences of Rural to Urban Migration in EMDC's (LA) and ELDC's (Rio).

Describe migration between countries using a specific case study and be able to explain the push and pull factors and the concequences for each country.

If you want to use the internet to revise, here are some links to help you:

http://www.scalloway.org.uk/popu.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/geog/population/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/geography/population/index.shtml

http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/Population%20Challenge.html

Good Luck and Happy Revising!!