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Free Response Questions

(Parts a-g are worth 1 point each)
1. Migration occurs for different reasons around the d. Describe which pull/push factor has been the lead-
world. Ernst Georg Ravenstein proposed laws ing cause of migration according to Ravenstein.
related to migration for different scales. e. Describe one example of an economic push
a. Define migration. factor.
b. Define internal migration or interregional f. Describe one example of an environmental
migration. push factor.
c. Identify one concept in Ravenstein’s model g. Compare how a region can be both a push and
related to migration. pull factor based on perceptions of the migrant.

2. The demographic transition model has often been used to predict both demographic and economic growth
within an individual country based on European countries’ demographic changes. Use this image of the
demographic transition model to answer the following prompts.
a. Define zero population growth. e. Describe one economic problem associated with
b. Identify between which two stages zero popula- a country in stage 5.
tion occurs. f. Explain one pronatalist policy associated with
c. Identify the stage of the demographic transi- a country in stage 4 or 5.
tion model with the highest growth. g. Explain one criticism of the demographic tran-
d. Describe one economic problem associated with sition model.
a country in stage 2.

Time scale

40
Births and deaths per year per thousand people
Stabilized Birth rate
population,
high birth
30 and death
rates
Population Low birth and
explosion, death rates,
high birth rate, Death rate Decreasing low growth
decreasing death growth, of population Death rates
20 rate rapidly outpacing
declining birth
birth rate rates,
declining
total
population
10

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5
0
Post-
Preindustrial Beginning of Industrialization industrial
industrialization completed period

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