Movement
This is the movement of people, animals, or ideas from one place to another.
What is migration?
A reason that encourages someone to LEAVE a place is called this.
What is a push factor?
This means the number of people living in a particular area.
What is population density?
This describes the pattern of where people live in an area.
What is population distribution?
This type of factor includes climate, water, fertile soil, and natural resources.
What are physical factors?
This word describes someone who moves, often to find work or a better life.
What is a migrant?
A reason that attracts someone TO another place is called this.
What is a pull factor?
Population density is usually measured in people per this unit of area.
What is a square kilometre (km²)?
A population with many people living close together is described as this.
What is dense?
Jobs, transportation, ports, and services are examples of these factors.
What are human factors?
A person who moves INTO a country to live there permanently is called this.
What is an immigrant?
Travel costs, visa expenses, and distance can all be examples of this.
What is a barrier?
To calculate population density, divide the number of people by this.
What is land area?
A population with few people living far apart is described as this.
What is sparse?
Soil that is good for farming and growing plants is called this.
50 point bonus for naming the antonym.
What is fertile soil?
Point bonus: INFERTILE soil
A person who EXITS a country to live somewhere else is called this.
A person who EXITS a country to live somewhere else is called this.
War, poor living conditions, and lack of jobs are examples of these.
What are push factors?
An area with many people living close together is described as this.
What is densely populated?
When people are concentrated together in one part of an area, they form a population ____.
What is a cluster?
Water, trees, oil, and plant and animal life that can be used by people are examples of these.
What are natural resources?
If you permanently leave Korea to live in Canada, you are this in relation to Korea.
What is an emigrant?
A student wants to move to the United States for school, but the cost of traveling there is too expensive. The travel cost is what?
What is a barrier?
A country has 1,000,000 people and an area of 100,000 km². What is its population density?
What is 10 people per km²?
This describes a population that is spread more evenly throughout an area rather than concentrated in one location.
What is scattered?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Give TWO reasons why Brisbane has a relatively high population density.
What are its flat floodplain, river/water supply, port, pleasant climate, and economic opportunities?