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Core Concepts 6
social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| demographer | scientists who study human populations |
| birth rate | number of live births per 1,000 people in a year |
| death rate | the number of deaths per 1,000 people in a year |
| infant mortality rate | the number of infant deaths per 1,000 births |
| population distribution | the spreading of people over an area of of land |
| population density | the number of people per unit of land area |
| migration | the movement from one place to another |
| emigrate | to migrate out of a place |
| immigrate | to migrate into a place |
| push factor | causes of migration that push people to leave their home country |
| pull factor | pull, or attract people to new countries |
| urban | areas that are cities |
| rural | settlements in the country |
| urbanization | the movement of people from rural to urban areas |
| slum | poor overcrowded urban neighborhoods |
| suburban sprawl | the spread of suburbs away from the core city |