Review for population quiz
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Number of people residing (living) in a city, state or country | Population
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| Number of people per square mile or sqaure kilometer; a measure of how crowded a place is | Population density
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| Number of live births per 1,000 population per year | Birth rate
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| Number of deaths per 1,000 population per year | Death rate
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| A place with many people per square mile | Densely populated
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| A place with few people per square mile | Sparsely populated
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| Another name for a city | Urban area
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| Area surrounding a city | Suburbs
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| A city plus the surrounding suburbs | Metropolitan area
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| A graph which shows the age and sex distribution of a population | Population pyramid
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| The birth rate minus the death rate expressed as a percentage of the population | Rate of natural increase or population growth rate
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| Study of population | Demography or demographics
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| The number of children per 1,000 who die before their first birthday | Infant mortality rate
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| Average number of children a woman in a country has | Total fertility rate
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| Count of US population which happens every 10 years | Census
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| One reason that population has grown so rapidly in the last 150 years | Better health care
Better nutrition
Better sanitation
All extend lives
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| The percentage of population who can read and write | Literacy rate
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| Current world population | Approximately 6.8 billion
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| World's most populous country | China, 1.3 billion
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| The population of a country which is younger than fifteen and older than 65 | Dependent population
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