Counting people
Used in relation to the census, it's a fancy 11-letter word for "act of counting".
enumeration
Some of the lowest birthrates for countries are found on this continent.
Europe
The no. 1 cause of death in the U.S. isn't cancer, but this type of disease.
heart disease
The Outer Space Treaty prohibits these weapons or "any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction" from space.
Nuclear Weapons
Unlike the stingray, this "devilfish" doesn't have a stinger in its tail.
manta ray
It's the crowded town Mary traveled to in order to record her name during the census.
Bethlehem
A cuneiform tablet dating to 2000 B.C. is the first known reference to this type of birth associated with a Roman leader.
a Caesarian section
Completes the famous quote "I know not what course others may take, but as for me..."
"Give me liberty or give me death"
A coma is the hazy atmosphere of gases that forms around one of these as it nears the sun.
comet
There are 3 main types of coral reefs: fringing, atolls & this, like the one off Australia.
barrier reef
Based on the 1990 census, this color is also the fifth most common last name in the U.S.
Brown
From an average of about 2.3 million in the 1930s, births in the U.S. spiked to almost 3.5 million in this 1st baby boom year.
1946
Azrael is the Muslim name for this heavenly horror.
the Angel of Death
Named for the man who first observed them, the "Galilean satellites" are the 4 largest moons of this planet.
Jupiter
Bottlenose dolphins can make up to 1,000 clicks per second during this process that bounces sound waves off targets.
echolocation
The name of William the Conqueror's census book came from this term for the final judgment.
Doomsday
She coined the term "birth control".
Margaret Sanger
Death narrates this novel about Liesel Meminger, who steals reading material during WWII.
The Book Thief
Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan man in space, was not an astronaut but this similar kind of spaceman.
Cosmonaut
It's hard to visit, but this deepest trench, in the Pacific Ocean, was designated a U.S. national monument.
The Marina Trench
An 1811 census showed this city to be the first in history to exceed 1 million residents.
London
Capitalized, it's a historical South African province; lowercase, it means relating to birth
Natal/natal
In Plato's "Apology", he's quoted as saying, "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings"
Socrates
This measure of distance in the universe is equal to 3.26 light years.
a parsec
From the Latin for "tide", it's the place where the wide mouth of a freshwater river meets the ocean tides.
an estuary