Populations
Areas or populations outside of city's
Rural
A number of live births per thousand people every year
Birth Rate
The patterns of how people are arranged in an area
Population Distribution
A number of people in a given area
Population Density
What is the population of Canada?
41 million
Areas or populations inside of city's or towns
Urban
A number of deaths per thousand people every year
Death Rate
Close together and unevenly distributed over an area
Clustered
The formula for population density
PD= Population/Area
What is the projected population of the Earth in 2050.
~10 billion
The study of human population statistics
Demography
A number that shows an increase or a decrease in population during a certain time period
Growth rate
Spread over a large area and not grouped together
Scattered
many people crowded together in a given area
Dense
Name 3 of the 5 factors that effect population growth.
Economy
Health care
Demographics
Social Attitudes
Education
The movement of people from one place to another
Migration
A group or type of people
Population
Forming a line which can be straight or wavy
Linear
a small number of people scattered over a large area
Sparse
What are the two main factors that influenced population growth through human history?
The industrial and agricultural revolutions.
The maximum number of people that a region can support without running out of resources
Carrying Capacity
This country has the fastest population growth.
South Sudan. 4.6%
Distributed along the outer perimeter of an area
Peripheral
An ordering of settlements by size of population
Settlement Hierarchy
What is the population density of a city that has 120,000 people and is 1,000km2
120 people per km2