Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Days Forty Three & Forty Four

At the start of class on Wednesday, please hand in the following:
1) Population: Canada and the World (population density calc's and rankings)
2) 2 bar graphs: country populations and population densities
3) Statistical Analysis of graph information

Today we also did a Population Scavenger Hunt from the text ... completed in class :). These questions include:

Read pages 186-190 in your text and find the answers to the following questions:

1. What is the study of demography?

2. What calculation illustrates the growth of the Canadian population on a particular day? Use words, not numbers! (Think!)

3. Explain what is meant by the terms birth rate and death rate? How are they different and how are they the same?

4. What is Canada's birth rate? _____ / 1000 death rate? _____ / 1000

5. How do you calculate a country's birth rate? Calculate Russia's birth rate to show that you can use the formula properly.

6. What is the natural increase rate? What is Canada's natural increase rate? Please show your calculation.

7. What is the difference between immigration rate and emigration rate?

8. What is the net migration rate for Canada? How is it calculated?


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