Vocabularies

First of all, study vocabularies. You can find them in your study materials (Studijní materiály - Population), or you can use the follow link.   

POPULATION

  Population is the total number of human inhabitants of a particular area such as a city, country or continent, at any given time. The study if population is known as demography 

Just now (March 29th, 7.26 a.m.), the world's population is 6,908,743,274. 

Each year an extra 85 million people will be added to the world's total population. Another 10 000 people, may be more, will  join the human race during your today Geography in English lesson.

Do you want to know how many people will join the human race during your lesson? Look at World Population Clock!

Look at the estimated world's population at the beginning and end of the lesson. How many people join the human race during the time you spend on your Geography in English lesson?

Use the follow link to open World Population Clock.

POPULATION PYRAMIDS

Population pyramids are graphs that show the age and sex structure of the population of a specific place or group of people. They provide useful information about:

• changing economic and social needs of population
• the effect of past events on the population such as war or migration
• the likely future growth patterns of the population

They usually present:

• age grouping in five years sets
• the actual numbers in each age group or the percentages of the population in each age group
• the female population on the right side of the graph
• the male population on the left side of the graph

Here you can see the Population Pyramid of United Kingdom:

  You can use the following link to look at population pyramids for whatever country.  

Listening

Listen to and watch video about Population Pyramids. Try to answer following questions:

1. What does the shape of population pyramid for Bangladesh look like?

2. What does the term dependency ration  mean?

3. What are MEDC and LEDC countries? 

4. What does the term dependent population mean?

5. At which stage does the population start to decline?

 

EXERCISES

 

There are some exercises for you. Go through them! You can find them in Study Materials (Studijní materiály -> Odpovědníky) or you can use the following link.  

The world's population is 6,908,753,129 (March, 29th; 8.35 a.m.). It means that during last hour more than 9000 people join the human race.