Core Concepts 1
These factors attract people to a new country.
What are pull factors?
Number of deaths per 1000 people in a year.
What is the death rate?
Poor, overcrowded urban neighborhoods.
What are slums?
Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, he was the leader of the Communist Party after the Revolution.
Who is Lenin?
A group of cells working together for a common purpose.
What is a tissue?
Number of people per unit of land area.
What is population density?
Movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
Describes settlements in the country.
What is rural?
He and Friedrich Engels co-wrote "The Communist Manifesto."
Who is Karl Marx?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Number of infant deaths per 1000 births.
What is infant mortality rate?
Causes of migration that make people want to leave their countries.
What are push factors?
To migrate into a place.
A Russian word meaning "worker's collective."
What is soviet?
The amount of mass a material has in a given volume.
What is density?
Number of births per 1000 people in a year.
What is birth rate?
To migrate out of a place.
What is to emigrate with an "E?"
The movement of people from rural areas into urban areas.
What is urbanization?
The USSR's "Man of Steel," he is responsible for anywhere between 20 and 60 million deaths.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
A group of tissues working together to accomplish a common goal.
What is an organ?
Scientists who study human populations.
What are demographers?
The spread of suburbs away from the core city.
What is the suburban sprawl?
Describes settlements in the city.
What is urban?
A Russian word used to describe "wealthy" peasants, this class was liquidated which resulted in the starvation of 4-6 million Ukranians.
What is kulak?
States that mass cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of mass?