Vocab
Migration
Landforms
Urbanization
Population
100
the number of deaths compared to the total number of individuals in a population in a given time
What is death rate?
100
to leave one's country and live in another.
What is emigrate?
100
A large expanse of land that can be flat or have a gentle roll
What is a plain?
100
This is the term for a densely populated area.
What is urban?
100
The population is growing because this rate is decreasing.
What is death rate?
200
the number of years it takes a population to double in size based on its current growth rate
What is doubling time?
200
Refugees flee their home countries for these three reasons.
What is war/violence, persecution or natural disaster?
200
The part of a continent that extends into the ocean in a plateau, then drops sharply to the ocean floor
What is a continental shelf?
200
This term refers to what happens when cities grow larger and spread into surrounding areas.
What is urbanization?
200
On a global scale rapid population growth does this to the environment.
What is harm?
300
he geographic pattern of where people live on Earth
What is population distribution?
300
War and violence are this kind of factor.
What are push factors?
300
A long narrow steep sided cut in the ground or along the ocean floor
What is a trench?
300
When urbanization happens farm land is turned into this.
What is housing developments?
300
Name at least 2 things that there is often not enough of in the areas where population is growing rapidly.
What is food, water, housing, jobs, or heath care.
400
A huge city or cluster of cities with an extremely large population
What is a megalopolis?
400
Relocating to find a better job is this kind of factor.
What is a pull factor?
400
This is a delta.
What is an area where sand, silt, or clay is dropped at the mouth of a river?
400
One of the two main reasons people move to cities.
What is jobs or transportation?
400
This is how many people live on planet Earth by 2012.
What is 7 billion?
500
Some one who enters a new country because they were pushed out of their home country by war could be described by these two vocab terms.
What is immigrate and refugee?
500
Name one of three examples of cultural blending that happens when people migrate to new places.
What is clothing style, food, or language?
500
Panama is this type of landform.
What is an isthmus?
500
The text used this city as an example of both a primate city and megalopolis.
What is Mexico City?
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