Population 2009 Word Scramble
|
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Question | Answer |
Number of people residing (living) in a city, state or country | Population |
Number of people per square mile or sqaure kilometer; a measure of how crowded a place is | Population density |
Number of live births per 1,000 population per year | Birth rate |
Number of deaths per 1,000 population per year | Death rate |
A place with many people per square mile | Densely populated |
A place with few people per square mile | Sparsely populated |
Another name for a city | Urban area |
Area surrounding a city | Suburbs |
A city plus the surrounding suburbs | Metropolitan area |
A graph which shows the age and sex distribution of a population | Population pyramid |
The birth rate minus the death rate expressed as a percentage of the population | Rate of natural increase or population growth rate |
Study of population | Demography or demographics |
The number of children per 1,000 who die before their first birthday | Infant mortality rate |
Average number of children a woman in a country has | Total fertility rate |
Count of US population which happens every 10 years | Census |
One reason that population has grown so rapidly in the last 150 years | Better health care Better nutrition Better sanitation All extend lives |
The percentage of population who can read and write | Literacy rate |
Current world population | Approximately 6.8 billion |
World's most populous country | China, 1.3 billion |
The population of a country which is younger than fifteen and older than 65 | Dependent population |
Created by:
dfred
Popular Geography sets