Population Distribution
An area that has a lot of open land with few homes or other buildings.
What is rural?
A region is experiencing war and might be too dangerous for people to live in. They may feel forced to move somewhere else.
What is forced migration?
A period of 10 years.
What is a decade?
Attract people to an area.
What is pull factors?
The spread of new ideas.
An area where people throughout the world live in cities and surrounding areas with many areas to live and work.
What is urban?
People moving from place to place.
What is migration?
The number of people who die each year.
Drive people away from an area.
What is push factors?
Cultures separate from one another and develop in different ways.
What is cultural divergence?
Many people live close together in that area.
Key Facts - The places people choose to live or are forced to live, the living conditions of those places, and the connections between those places.
What is patterns?
The number of babies born each year for every 1,000 people.
What is the birth rate?
People who are forced to flee their country because of violence, war, food shortages, or persecution.
What are refugees?
Receives approximately 60 billion in remittances.
What is China?
In this area, people build their own shelters, grow their own food, and raise livestock or farm animals.
What is rural?
A place receiving rainfall and another place being a desert is called.
What is spatial patterns?
The annual death rate is greater than the annual birth rate.
What is negative population growth?
To enter and live in a new place or country.
What is an immigrant?
Developers build houses, apartments, factories, offices, schools, and stores for a growing number of people. The loss of farmland means that food must be grown farther from cities.
What is urbanization?
Land that can be used to support agriculture.
What is arable?
Studies the world's growing population to understand the reason for its changes over time.
What is a geographer?
Miners drill and dig into the earth to search for resources.
Forests are cut down to make farms
Factories generate, or produce, pollution.
Chemicals are dumped into waterways and blow poisonous smoke into the air.
What is effects on the environment?
To leave one's home to live in another place.
What is an emigrate?
Creates a need for additional resources like medical care, housing, jobs and education.
What is population increase?