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Chap. 2-Whelchel
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A country's_____________is the number of people who live there. | population |
| What does population density measure? | The average number of people per square mile. |
| What do you call the movement of people from one region to another? | migration |
| The movement of people to cities is called____________. | urbanization |
| A system for producing, distributing, consuming, and owning goods, services, and wealth is called_________. | economy |
| ___________are people who buy and use goods and services. | Consumers |
| TRUE OR FALSE Developing nations have few industries and simple technology | TRUE |
| A ______________is a body that makes and enforces laws and resolves conflicts among its people. | government |
| A region that shares a government is a ____________. | state |
| What is population distribution? | The way the population is spread out over an area. |
| What factors affect population distribution? | Climate, jobs, natural resources |
| The factors that affect population distribution today are different than when most people were farmers because: | There are many job options and people aren't responsible for producing their own food. |
| How has the size of the world populations changed in recent years? | It has grown very large because we have better medicines. |
| What difficulties have resulted from the change in the size of world populations? | Cities cannot keep up with the growing populations. There aren't enough jobs, schools, or services. |
| What do you call the movement of people by their own choice? | Voluntary migration |
| Why do people voluntarily migrate? | The push/pull effect causes voluntary migration. Difficulties push people to leave and hope for a better life pulls them. |
| ___________ is an economic system in which private individuals or groups of people own most businesses. | Capitalism |
| How does capitalism differ from communism? | With communism, the government owns all the businesses. |
| What are some challenges faced by developing countries? | They do not have great wealth, people and animals do most farm work (no machines), disease, food shortages, unsafe water, poor education and healthcare, and politital unrest |
| Developing countries face many challenges because___________. | they lack wealth. They don't have natural resources to sell. |
| What are two types of democracy? | 1) Direct 2) Representative |
| Democracies differ from other forms of government because____________________. | power is shared |
| *Be able to label the continents, Sheppardsoftware.com has a map. |
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Mrs. Logan
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