Urban Sprawl Words
Population Dilemma Words
Population Pyramids
Urban Sprawl
Anything
100
A major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs.
What is metropolitan area?
100
A lot of old and young people to support
What is High Depenedcy ratio?
100
A pyramid that is wide at the bottom shows what type of growth?
What is rapid growth
100
What is a planning commission
A body which is made up of citizen chosen to guide a cities growth
100
What are three things found in suburbs
What is housing tacks, shopping centers and office parks.
200
Developed that combines housing and buisness in one area
What is mixed-use development?
200
The avearge age a person lives too
What is life expectancy?
200
A deveolped country tends to have what type of growth
What is negative growth
200
What are habitats
What is open space for animals and plants to live in
200
What are the three measures domographers use to track population trends
What is birth rates, death rates and migration
300
A network of buses, trains and toehr vehciles used for moving passengers in a city
What is public transportaion?
300
When a person moves from their home country to another country.
What is migration?
300
A pyramid that is narrow at the bottom shows what?
What is negative growth
300
Two reasons an enviromentalist would be against urban sprawl
What is Answers could be- taking over land, building on the farms, killing crops etc
300
What are two thing European countries are trying to do to increase the birth rates
What is offer birth bonus, give paid leave, work part time
400
The proess of filling in empty or run down parts of a city with new development
What is infill?
400
The number of women in a country that can have children
What is total Fertility rate?
400
If the dependency rate in a country is high what are the two types of population pyramids you will have
What is negative and rapid?
400
What were the three cities you were the planning commission for?
What is Portland, Toronto and Atlanta
400
What does the government pay to a person when they retire
What is a pension
500
What are the three areas of urban sprawl
What is urban core, urban fringe and rural fringe?
500
The study of human population including how they change due to births, deaths, aging and migration.
What is demography
500
A pyramid with straight sides show what type of growth
What is slow growth?
500
What is urban sprawl
What is rapid and often poorly planned spread of cities and suburbs.
500
What are three factors on which population growth or shrinkage depends
What is total fertility rate, replacement rate and life expectancy
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