Population Homework 2

Population Pyramids

1) What is a population pyramid?
2) What are the main 'shapes' a population pyramid can take? As a minimum you should have a shape for: -

• An LEDC
• An MEDC
• An Aeging population

3) Using the websites below, find a population pyramid for Brazil and Japan. Take a whole page in your book. Sketch each pyramid and add 5 annotations. These must be in your own words - NOT copied from the websites. You must use the following key words.

• Birth Rate
• Death Rate
• Life Expectancy

Websites

• http://geographyfieldwork.com/PopulationStructure.htm
• http://www.scalloway.org.uk/popu4.htm
• http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/pyramids.html
• p180 - 181 in your textbook.