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Unit 4 Population
Unit 4 geography Population terms
Question | Answer |
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The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society | Birth rate |
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society | Mortality rate |
A country's population can be displayed by age and gender groups on a bar graph | Population pyramid |
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years | Fertility rate |
The rate by which a population grows in a year | Natural increase rate |
The movement of people in a country or region | Migration |
Draw or attract people to another location | Pull factor |
The average number of people living in a square mile | Population density |
Cause people to leave their homeland | Push factor |
Single-family housing and apartment buildings | Residential |
Areas reserved for manufacturing of goods | Industrial |
Areas used for private business and the buying and selling of products | Commercial |
The number of organisms a piece of land can support | Carrying capacity |
Areas with large populations and centers of business and culture | Cities |
The built-up areas around the central city | Suburbs |
The city and its suburbs | Metropolitan |
Several metropolitan areas have grown together | Megalopolis |
The rise in the number of cities and the change in lifestyle | Urbanization |
The core of the city which is based on commercial activity | Central Business District |