Online Lab topic 2

1. What was your high fertility rate country and what was its fertility rate?

Mali was my high fertility rate country of 6.30.

2. What was your low fertility rate country and what was its fertility rate?

France was my low fertility rate country of 1.80.

3. The initial demographic "shape" of your high fertility rate country should have been a pyramid, with high population in young age groups. Explain why high fertility rate results in a high percentage of young people in the population. How does this affect future population growth?

High fertility rates simply mean that people are having a lot of babies. When those people have babies, their kids have lots of babies and their kids after that will have lots of babies. This keeps the population growth exponential and is considered skyrocketing. This leads to many young people.

4. Your low fertility rate country might have had a more oval-shaped curve with high population in middle age groups. This is especially exaggerated if the fertility rate is below 2.00. Explain why low fertility rate leads to lots of middle-aged people. Low fertility rate means that people aren't having as many kids. If they aren't having 2 or more as their fertility rate, they are not producing enough children to replace themselves when they die. For instance, in France, they are only producing 1.8 children on average and are dying out, so to speak. On the otherhand, the Muslims are coming into France and they are multiplying. So who may overcome that country? Hmm.

5. Write ten adjectives or descriptive phrases for what you might expect life, people's attitudes, conditions on the streets, etc. will be like in each of those situations. Imagine a situation with lots of middle-aged and older people in the population and write ten quick "brain-storm" descriptors for you think it would be like (Prescott, Arizona?). Then do the same for a situation with lots of children in the population.

For an area with lots of young people:

Crime rates,

Drinking,

Smoking Illegal activity,

Decrease in standard of living,

Car accidents/Freak accidents,

Bankruptcies,

Divorces,

Rude behavior,

Cursing.

An area with lots of old people:

Clean,

Quiet,

Strict,

Boring,

Higher standards of living,

Bill pay-hospitals

High insurace prices,

Less crime,

More traffic,

Lots of caregiving agencies and volunteer work