ShmoopTube

00:04

And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by population

00:07

pyramids useful tools sure but not quite as impressive as the actual pyramids if [Man looking at a population pyramid chart]

00:12

you're looking to play tourist for the day alright here's our question a

00:15

population pyramid portrays what and here are potential answers.....

00:21

alrighty well the best way to figure out what a population [Cheerleaders on a field]

00:25

pyramid portrays is to you know actually look at one so let's do that thankfully

00:30

unlike like a real pyramid you don't need to pay anyone to take a gander so [Man in cue for pyramid tickets]

00:34

we're off to a great start if we look at the vertical axis things the vertical

00:39

axis we see that it measures ages going up from zero to however old people get

00:44

we know it's not nice to discriminate based on age by dividing populations [People get into order by age]

00:48

into age based categories as part of what a population pyramid does sorry

00:52

grandpa you can eat ice cream with your grandkids later while we're waiting on

00:55

grandpa's invite there we can also notice that our pyramid is broken into

00:58

two halves on the left side males and on the right side female warning those male

01:04

and female signs do not indicate restrooms we should have done for you [Man knocking on restroom door]

01:07

came to the population pyramid or visited North Carolina finally if we

01:12

take a look at the horizontal axis we notice that it measures populations so [Horizontal axis flashing]

01:16

we can read off how many members of each age and each sex there are in this

01:20

population not quite as fun as reading a good novel

01:23

but you'll definitely learn about countries that age sex distribution yep [Kids reading about population pyramids]

01:27

so how does that square with our options well since we saw that a population

01:31

pyramid portrays age sex distribution we have no choice but to go with B okay

01:37

that one too hard does much easier than getting a refund from your pyramid [Men waiting outside pyramid ticket booth]

01:40

vacation probably should have just come to the Grand Canyon [Man and woman looking at grand canyon]

Full Transcript