World Population. Population Vocabulary Match the words on the left with the definitions on the right!

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1 1 Population Vocabulary atch the words on the left with the definitions on the right! plague the number of people living in a place B billion things that exist in nature and can be used by people, like wood or oil population the way people live and how much money they have D moderate another word for old raw material an operation that kills an unborn baby F citizen K the money that you have to pay to the government elderly against the law H peak a disease that spreads fast and kills many people abortion J a small group of people who live in a country J minority D not too hot and not to cold K tax everything that has to do with the countryside living standard B one thousand million illegal H the highest point of something rural to die because you don t have enough to eat starve F a person who lives in a country and has rights there

2 2 omplete the text on the DRS F VRPPU by filling in the correct words from the box! Population growth is causing many problems for our environment. he atmosphere is getting hotter and hotter because more and more trees are destroyed, especially in tropical rain forests. People need more room to live and take away the habitats of animals and plants. ities produce a lot of waste, which they cannot get rid of. Farmers cannot produce enough food to feed the growing population. hey must grow more food on the same land. his means that the quality of the soil is getting worse. any countries must already buy expensive food from industrial countries and in some areas people don t have enough clean drinking water either. n developing countries families have too many children. he average family in frica has five children and young people have to care for their parents and grandparents. Unemployment will be going up over the next decades, especially in hird World countries. overnments cannot create enough jobs to give work to younger citizens. People who are out of work try to get money by doing illegal things like stealing or dealing with drugs. average dealing expensive soil care for decades feed stealing citizens destroyed habitats tropical clean developing illegal unemployment create environment quality waste

3 3 Put the names of the cities into the map below! os ngeles ew York Seoul okyo Delhi Shanghai exico ity umbai Jakarta Sao Paolo Which of these statements on cities are true or false? n 1800,only 3 % of the world s population lived in cities. F oday, about 20 % of the population live in urban areas. he biggest city in the world is Delhi. Death rates in cities are low because they have more doctors and hospitals. sian and frican cities are growing very fast today. any people do not want to go to the cities because they can not find a job there. ities offer better schools and education. During the 19th century cities in urope and orth merica grew quickly because many indus-

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5 5 How well do you know numbers?? Put the right numbers next to the facts below 6.5 billion World s population today 61 % sia s proportion of world population 51 Birth rate in iger (per thousand people) 295 million Population of the US 6.7 umber of children born per woman in Uganda 23 million Population of exico ity 1.5 % rowth rate of world population 33 ife expectancy in Swaziland he status of women ake sentences by using one part from each section. n industrialized countries more and more women go to work and have jobs. n developing countries many women are at home and care for their children. Women who go to school have better chances of getting a job. ducated women know more about birth control and health care. n frica young girls may pass DS on to their babies. ore than 75 % of all DS victims are young women. Helping women in the hird World can slow down the population explosion.

6 6 Which of these statements on migration are true or false? he US is made up of people whose descendants have come there in the last 200 years. Some people think they can get better jobs in other countries. any mericans go to exico because they can work there. housands of rish men and women left the country during the iddle ges. here are a lot of astern uropean workers in Western uropean countries. People can only get into another country if the government lets them. he potato crisis left many people in south-eastern urope homeless. lot of fricans and sians go to the rich countries of the iddle ast to work there ountries with low birth rates do not need workers from other countries. F WordSearch Key P S Z B Q R F S Z F W P V U U B K Y U J K Z R D Z Y D F Z K D R W H Y Y P F S R B Y H J H U R B R J D B F F D H S V J S P K Q F B Q H B F U P Y P F D F Q P J R F Y Z W B R F W W P P S W Y F B R B R D K P R J U B H H Y

7 7 Rewrite the paragraphs he facts in the following text are partly wrong. Underline the parts that are wrong and rewrite a correct version of the text in the second box! People have been living on earth for 10,000 years. t that time people died quickly because others killed them. arly inhabitants were farmers and miners. People have been living on earth for over a million years. t that time people died quickly because they didn t have enough food to eat. arly inhabitants were hunters and fishers and they collected berries. When Jesus was born about 1 billion people lived on earth. n the iddle ges the population grew very quickly. any people died of malaria which sailors brought to urope from merica. When Jesus was born about 300 million people lived on earth. n the iddle ges the population grew very slowly. any people died of the plague which sailors brought to urope from sia. During the ndustrial Revolution birth rates began to fall. Farmers could grow more food because many workers helped them and people lived shorter. By 1960 there were 6 billion people on earth. During the ndustrial Revolution birth rates began to rise. Farmers could grow more food because they had machines to work with and people lived longer. By 1960 there were 3 billion people on earth.