Vocabulary 1
BCE stands for what?
Before Common Era
China's population rank in the world.
# 1
Annual number of birth in a country.
Birth Rate
Which part of China is the coldest?
Southwestern Mountains
Annual number of deaths in a country.
Death Rate
A map that adjusts the size of a country to show an amount of a topic.
Cartogram
Which part of China is most dry?
Northwestern
An increase in the total number of people living in an area.
Population Growth
Where is the region in which farmers mainly grow wheat?
Northeast
A map that shows the distribution of a population using dots.
Population Dot Map
The study of population characteristics.
Demography
Where is the region where farmers can grow two crops of rice in a year?
Southeast
A decrease in the total number of people living in an area.
Population Decline
The Chinese created this to protect against nomadic invaders.
The Great Wall
How much a country's population has increased in the past year.
Growth Rate
The number of people who live inside an area.
Population Density
What valuable cloth did the Chinese produce?
Silk
The types of jobs that people have.
Employment Sector
The majority of people in China live where?
East
An estimate about the future population of a country.
Population Projection
The arrangement of people inside a country or the world.
Population Distribution
The Chinese created this to move food to where they were needed.
The Grand Canal
The average number of children that a woman has during her lifetime.
Fertility Rate
Currently China's population is...
Declining
Number of births minus number of deaths.
Natural Increase