Exploring the effects of rapid population growth.

Learning Objectives: To understand how rapid population growth impacts on agriculture. To know what urbanisation means and understand the problems associated with it. To understand how urbanisation usually leads to a decrease (fall) in birth rates.

What stage?

What stage?

Which of these places has a higher birth rate and why?

Which of these places has the highest death rate why? What about birth rate?

What could these pictures tell us about population growth?

What are the key differences here?

Key terms for this lesson.

Subsistence farming This where land is farmed to produce enough food just to eat and live. Desertification an area of land which becomes desert like due to climatic change and/or human activity. Salinisation soils becoming more salty making farming more difficult.

What problems does a growing population cause?

Problems caused by rapid population growth.....

Political
Water, land and air pollution Unstable governments and political coups

Environmental

Economic

Traffic congestion

unemployment

Social

Environmental

Social

Economic

Political

What is desertification of land likely to cause?

Migration
Migration is the movement of people from one place to another to work or live.

URBANISATION
Rural to Urban migration or URBANISATION = where people move from the countryside to the city.

Urbanisation
The movement of people from farming and fishing villages to the cities is a common feature in LEDCs.
Population Growth for Mumbai, India
POPULATION (millions)
25 22.4 20 15 10 7.7 5 0 1971 1981 1991 YEAR 2001 2011 9.9 13.4 18.3

Im a subsistence farmer get me out of here

Examine the reasons why people are moving from the village to the city...would you move?....does the city offer a better life?..... What are the pull factors and what are the push factors?......what are the problems caused by rapid urbanisation in LEDCs such as Ghana? How might Urbanisation lead to lower birth rates?

Complete the flow diagram to show how urbanisation can reduce birth rates

How might these things also affect birth rates and population?
Education for women (4marks) Mechanisation and technology in farming (4marks)