Unit 1 Changing population: Challenges and opportunities
13 revision questions with answers for Unit 1 Changing population: Challenges and opportunities, marked SL and HL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Government measures encouraging larger families, e.g. child benefits and paid parental leave?
- Anti-natalist policy
- Pro-natalist policyRight answer
- Family planning policy
- Assimilation policy
What this set covers
Population policy and structure are the focus: pro-natalist and anti-natalist measures, demographic dividend, youth bulge, population ageing, sex ratio, median age and the old-age dependency ratio.
- Common mix-up
- Students often confuse pro-natalist and anti-natalist policy, or treat human trafficking as the same thing as voluntary migration: coercion and exploitation are what define trafficking.
- Revision tip
- Pick a country with an ageing population and list one pressure and one policy response from this set, such as a higher retirement age or a points-based system.
All 13 questions and answers
Government measures encouraging larger families, e.g. child benefits and paid parental leave?
Answer: Pro-natalist policy
Government measures aiming to cut fertility, e.g. free contraception and limits on family size?
Answer: Anti-natalist policy
Economic boost when the working-age share of a population rises after fertility falls?
Answer: Demographic dividend
Over-64s per 100 people in the 15–64 group?
Answer: Old-age dependency ratio
Over-64s 10 million, 15–64s 50 million: what is the old-age dependency ratio?
Answer: 20
Number of males per 100 females in a population?
Answer: Sex ratio
Raising this threshold is a common response to rising pension costs in greying societies?
Answer: Retirement age
Recruiting and moving people by force, fraud or coercion in order to exploit them?
Answer: Human trafficking
Immigration rules that score applicants on skills, qualifications and language ability?
Answer: Points-based system
Rising share of over-65s as life expectancy lengthens and fertility falls?
Answer: Population ageing
Unusually large share of 15–24-year-olds, which can raise unemployment if jobs are scarce?
Answer: Youth bulge
Situation in which a country's annual deaths outnumber its births?
Answer: Natural decrease
Value that splits a population into two equal-sized halves, one older and one younger?
Answer: Median age
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options were written for that question.