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Geography Quiz
Geography Quiz - Tuesday, January 29, 2019
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |