Population Terms
This measures how many people live per square mile.
What is population density?
What is found by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate.
What is the Rate of Natural Increase?
The movement of people into a country is known as this.
What is immigration?
A population pyramid with a very wide base often indicates this demographic characteristic.
What is a high birth rate?
This term describes the number of people living within a specific area.
What is population density?
The number of deaths per 1,000 people in a population each year is called ____________.
Death Rate
Advances in medicine and healthcare often increase this measure.
What is life expectancy?
The movement of people out of a country is known as this.
What is emigration?
This type of population growth is suggested by a population pyramid that appears mostly rectangular.
What is slow or stable growth?
This area has the greater population density: 1,000 people in 10 square miles or 1,000 people in 100 square miles.
What is 1,000 people in 10 square miles?
The term that describes the average number of children a woman is expected to have during her lifetime
Fertility Rate
Improvements in medicine often reduce this population statistic.
What is the death rate?
War, famine, and unemployment are examples of these factors that encourage people to leave an area.
What are push factors?
A narrow base and larger older population often indicate this trend.
What is population decline (or an aging population)?
Fresh water, fertile soil, and forests are examples of these.
What are natural resources?
This term refers to the overall frequency of death within a population.
What is the mortality rate?
This occurs when a country's death rate becomes higher than its birth rate.
What is population decline?
Better jobs, safety, and educational opportunities are examples of these factors that attract people to a new location.
What are pull factors?
Geographers use population pyramids to predict this.
What are future population trends?
Resource shortages and environmental stress may occur when a population exceeds this limit.
What is carrying capacity?
This measures the number of babies who die before age one for every 1,000 live births.
What is the infant mortality rate?
High fertility rates combined with low mortality rates typically lead to this population trend.
What is rapid population growth?
A family leaving a country because of political unrest is responding to this type of migration influence.
What is a push factor?
A population pyramid with a very wide base and a narrow top is most likely characteristic of this type of country.
What is a developing country?
This relationship explains why a very dense population may place pressure on available resources.
What is the relationship between population density and carrying capacity?