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Population Geography
Term | Definition |
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Birth Rate | ratio of live births in a specified area, group, etc, to the population per 1000 population per year |
Death Rate | the number of deaths per unit, usually 1000, of population |
Arable | Land that is suitable for agriculture because of soil, climate, etc |
Infant Mortality Rate | Number of infants that will die before their first year per every 1000 live births |
Fertility rate | Average number of children a woman will have |
Urbanization | Cities growing, usually caused by migration |
Emigrate | to leave one country or region to settle in another |
Immigrate | to come to one country or region as a permanent resident |
Life Expectancy | average number of years a person will live |
Population distribution | the way the population is spread out over the earth . |
Population Density | average number of people who live in a square mile or kilometer |
Sparsely populated | Not many people per square mile; Siberian taiga, Sahara desert, Amazon Rainforest, etc |
Densely populated | Lots of people per square mile; Cities; Japan, BOWASH, etc |
Postindustrial stage | In this stage the population growth begins to level off because the crude birth rates have reduced to closely follow the crude death rates. |