Science Notebook - Student Edition

38 Population Ecology

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Create a demographic profile for an imaginar y countr y

by describing its population characteristics below. List the sources of your data.

Name of country:

Geographic location:

Is it classified as a developing country or as an industrialized nation?

Population size:

Population density:

Description of the population’s spatial distribution across the country’s land area:

Birthrate:

Death rate:

Current population growth rate:

Expected population growth rate in the next 10 to 20 years:

General age structure:

Major factors promoting population growth:

Major factors limiting population growth:

Data sources used:

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