population vocabulary introduction to primary students

1. Population
Objectives:
-Learn vocabulary about population
-Understand graphs and keys
-Learn about population in Spain

2. Types of population
• Rural • Urban
People live in places with fewer than 10.000 inhabitants
People live in places with more than 10.000 inhabitants
more / fewer / same as / rural / urban

3. Rural population Urban population
Rural and Urban population in Spain

4. Population map – reading keys

5. Look at the population map and decide if the
statements are true or false:
• Zamora is the most rural province.
• There are seven provinces with 90%
urban population.
• Pontevedra is the only semiurban
Galician province.
• Most provinces in the Mediterranean
coast have high rates of urban
population.
• In most provinces most people live in
towns.
• True
• False
• False
• True
• True

6. Birth rate
• Number of people born in a year in a specific
place.
Tasa de natalidad

7. Death rate
• Amount of people who die in a year in a
specific place.
Índice de mortalidad

8. Natural growth rate
• Birth rate – Death rate = Natural growth rate
Tasa de crecimiento natural

9. Spain –Natural growth rate
Positive growth rate
Negative growth rate

10. Growth rates
• Natural growth rate
The difference
between births and
deaths
Can be negative or
positive
• Real growth rate
We add difference
between immigrants
and emigrants
Can be negative or
positive

11. Calculate Growth rates
Village 1 has 133 inhabitants, 6 babies were born in
the last year and 5 people died.
• 6 born ˃ 5 died
• It´s a positive natural growth rate
Village 2 has 983 inhabitants, 23 babies were born
in the last year and 28 people died.
• 23 born ˂ 28 died
• It´s a negative natural growth rate

12. Village A:
• 40 born-32 died=
• 8
• It´s a positive natural growth rate

13. Calculate Growth rate
Village B:
• 6 born ˃ 3 died=
• positive natural growth rate
• 10 inmigrants + 6 born= 16
• 3 died + 5 emigrants= 8
• 16˃8
• positive real growth rate