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Geography Population
cdeutsch/ursuline
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the study of population that uses statistics to learn about population | demography |
| the number of births per year for every 1000 people. This affects population growth. | birth rate |
| The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people. It decreases every year. | death rate |
| the movement of people from place to place | migration |
| people from different countries leaving their country and moving to a new country | immigration |
| People living in a country that is different from their birth country | emigration |
| In the United States, it takes 25 years to double its size. | doubling time |
| The model that uses birthrates and death rates to show changes in the population trends of a country | demographic transition |
| is very rare, but happens when the birth rate and death rate are equal | zero population growth |
| this happens when the annual death rate exceeds the annual death rate | negative population graph |
| is the number of people living on a square mile or a square kilometer | population density |
| Why is the world's population distributed unevenly on the land masses of the world? | |
| How are the populations of Russia and China distributed? | RussiaChina |
| What are examples of how population density can vary from country to country? | |
| Is population density almost always the same throughout all regions of a country? (Give an example) | |
| What is urbanization? How is it affecting the distribution and density of populations in many countries today? | |
| How is immigration affecting the population of the US in the last 20 or 30 years? | |
| What does the demographic information you studied from St. Louis County, Missouri and Reynolds County, Missouri tell you a bout the population distribution, population diversity and distribution of wealth in Missouri? |