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(Population and Growth)
(Population and Growth)
The number of people who live in a place.
What is population?
Homes or buildings that are grouped close together.
What is clustered?
Soil that is good for farming.
What is arable land?
A map that uses colours to show how many people live in places.
What is a choropleth map?
A word for a city or town with lots of people.
What is urban?
The number of babies born in a year.
What is birth rate?
Homes or buildings that are spread far apart.
What is scattered?
Jobs and money are this kind of reason to move somewhere.
What is an economic reason?
Roads, power lines, and bridges are part of this.
What is infrastructure?
A word for a place with farms or fewer people.
What is rural?
The number of people who die in a year.
What is death rate?
Homes or buildings built in a straight line.
What is linear?
Religion or beliefs are this kind of reason to move.
What is a religious reason?
The study of people and how populations change.
What is demography?
A word for when cities grow outward and take up more space.
What is urban sprawl?
How much the number of people is going up or down.
What is growth rate?
Homes or buildings around the outside edge of something.
What is peripheral?
Borders, laws, or government decisions are this kind of reason.
What is a political reason?
A map that shows where people live and how spread out they are.
What is a population distribution map?
A way to rank places from smallest to largest, like village to city.
What is settlement hierarchy?
The most people an area can support without problems.
What is carrying capacity?
A word for when more people move to cities.
What is urbanization?
Things like rivers, mountains, or weather.
What are natural factors?
A map that shows different settlement types, like clustered or scattered.
What is a settlement pattern map?
A word for people moving from the country to the city.
What is rural-to-urban migration?