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Population 2009
Review for population quiz
Question | Answer |
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Number of people residing (living) in a city, state or country | Population |
Number of people per square mile or sqaure kilometer; a measure of how crowded a place is | Population density |
Number of live births per 1,000 population per year | Birth rate |
Number of deaths per 1,000 population per year | Death rate |
A place with many people per square mile | Densely populated |
A place with few people per square mile | Sparsely populated |
Another name for a city | Urban area |
Area surrounding a city | Suburbs |
A city plus the surrounding suburbs | Metropolitan area |
A graph which shows the age and sex distribution of a population | Population pyramid |
The birth rate minus the death rate expressed as a percentage of the population | Rate of natural increase or population growth rate |
Study of population | Demography or demographics |
The number of children per 1,000 who die before their first birthday | Infant mortality rate |
Average number of children a woman in a country has | Total fertility rate |
Count of US population which happens every 10 years | Census |
One reason that population has grown so rapidly in the last 150 years | Better health care Better nutrition Better sanitation All extend lives |
The percentage of population who can read and write | Literacy rate |
Current world population | Approximately 6.8 billion |
World's most populous country | China, 1.3 billion |
The population of a country which is younger than fifteen and older than 65 | Dependent population |