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Geography Quiz
Geography Quiz - Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Term | Definition |
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Population | a group or type of people |
Rural | areas or populations outside cities |
Urban | areas or populations inside cities or towns |
Demography | the study of human population statistics |
Growth Rate | a number that shows the increase or decrease in a population during a certain period of time |
Birth Rate | the number of live births per thousand people every year |
Death Rate | the number of deaths per thousand people every year |
Migration | the movement of people from one place to another |
Economy | the system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region |
Carrying Capacity | the maximum number of people that a region can support without running out of resources |
Population Distribution | the patterns of how people are arranged in an area |
Clustered | close together and unevenly distributed over an area |
Scattered | spread over a large area and not grouped together |
Linear | forming a line, which can be straight or wavy |
Peripheral | distributed along the outer perimeter of an area |
Population Density | the number of people in a given area |
Dense | describes high population density‐many people crowded together in a given area |
Sparse | describes low population density‐a small number of people scattered over a large area |