1. Welcome to A-Level Geography
POPULATION
COASTAL
ENVIRONMENTS
RIVERS
ENERGY

2. AT A-Level you are expected to:
Bring a pen, lined paper and a folder to lessons (I am happy to store your folders when you don’t need them )
Work to the best of your ability every lesson
Not disrupt others or yourself from learning
Complete your homework to the best of your ability EVERY lesson and on time!
Keep your folder neat and tidy all year and take pride in your work

3. Population Change
Learning Objective: To revisit key population terms and understand how different factors affect the population of an area.
Learning Outcomes:
All will know the types of people make up the world’s population.
Most will know what has happened to the world’s population in the last 250 years.
Some will be able to give examples of influences on population.

4. Jelly Baby Population Game

5. All populations have a structure
All populations have a structure. This is usually represented on a diagram called a population pyramid…

6. The structure is made up of a particular combination of cohorts.

7. A cohort is an age group, or a particular section of the population.

8. Cohorts include: YOUNG PEOPLE… (also called young dependents)

9. Middle Aged People – ‘the workers’…

10. …and Old People.. (or elderly dependents) although increasingly people are having to work for a lot longer - as will you have to….

11. Of course populations change for various reasons…

12. People are born…

13. People die….

14. People move in…

15. People move out…

16. …and we all get older every day…

17. How will the population of ‘your’ country change in response to a series of ‘chance’ events ?? Let’s play the game…

19. Green - Ethnic minorities • Red - People aged over 65
1. Name your country (it can be fictional) and write its name on card so others can see what you are called.
2. The sweets represent the people within that country and the colours of the sweets represent different groups of people within the country as follows:
Green - Ethnic minorities
• Red - People aged over 65
• Black - Adult males
• Yellow - Adult females
• White - Female children
• Orange - Male children
3. Divide the sweets up at random, leaving at least 12 in the centre of the table.
4. Note the population structure of your country.
e.g. 2 orange, 4 black etc.
5. TO PLAY: You have been given some ‘chance’ cards. Shuffle these and put them in the middle of the table. Each country takes it in turn to take a card from the top of the pile. You must carry out whatever instructions are on the cards. If you lose anyone from your country DO NOT EAT THEM! Put them back into the central ‘pot’.

20. Population change
01 June 2018
Your task: Copy the following and then answer the questions below. All populations have a structure. This is usually represented on a diagram called a population pyramid. The structure is made up of a particular combination of cohorts. A cohort is an age group, or a particular section of the population.
What was the population structure of your country at the start of the game?
Which country had the most people at the end of the game. Why?
What was the population structure of your country like at the end of the game?
Which scenarios changed the birth rate?
Which scenarios changed the death rate?
Which scenarios changed the migration rate?
Which were push factors of migration? Which were pull factors of migration?