Population Vocabulary Review

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Population Vocabulary Review
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• Number of people in a given area

• population

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• The number of deaths per year for every 1,000
  people

• death rate

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• Number of births per year for every 1,000 people

• birth rate

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• The study of population

• demography

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• The number of people per square mile or square
  kilometer

• population density

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• A severe lack of food

• famine

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• The movement of people from one place to another

• migration

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• Movement of people within their own country

• internal migration

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• The movement of people from one country to another

• international migration

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• A city area

• urban

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• An area outside of cities or town

• rural

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• Growth of cities

• urbanization

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• A person who moves into a country to settle
  permanently there

• immigrant

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• A person who permanently exits or leaves a country

• emigrant

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• One who flees an area because his life in in
  danger

• refugee

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• A theory that explains what causes a person to
  leave a country and move to another

• Push-pull theory

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• The average number of years one is expected to
  live

• Life expectancy

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• What is the difference between an area that is
  densely populated and one that is sparsely
  populated?

• A densely populated area is crowded while a
  sparsely populated are is not crowded.

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Other things to know

• Know how to calculate population density
• Describe the things that push a person to leave
  a country and the things that pull a person to
  a new country
• Analyze a population pyramid