Definitions
The science that studies and explains the Earth's surface and the relationships between territories and its population.
What is Geography?
A group of people that lives in a territory.
What is population?
The other type of geography.
What is physical geography?
A map showing the direction and flow of migrations across zones of the world using arrows and lines.
What is a flow map?
The act of coming to a country to live permanently.
What is immigration?
The science that studies population.
What is demography?
The number of people in the world.
What is 8,000,000,000 (8 billion)?
The number of people per unit of area (usually kilometers squared - km2).
What is population density?
A circular chart showing the percentage of each population demographic within a larger population.
What is a pie chart?
The act of leaving your country to live in another.
What is emigration
The number of live births per thousand of the population per year.
What is birth rate?
The three population density distribution factors.
What are physical, historical, and socioeconomic factors?
Three (3) advantages of living in urban areas.
What are public transportation, shared experiences, more job opportunities, etc?
This is what GIT stands for.
What is 'Geographical Information Technologies'?
People who have international protection abroad when their lives are threatened in their own country for religious, political, ethnic, or social reasons.
Who are refugees?
A population with an increasing portion of people who are 65 and older.
What is the aging population?
The European population makes up this percent of the entire world's population.
What is 10%?
A survey conducted every ten years with the objective of knowing how many people live in a country.
What is a population census?
This is how birth rate, fertility rate, death rate and infant mortality rate are usually expressed.
What is 'in per mile'?
The three types of migrations.
What are seasonal, temporal, and permanent?
A set of legislative, social and economic measures used to influence the basic variables of a population. Give an example.
What are population policies and China's one-child policy?
Three (3) reasons the average fertility rate is higher in countries with the lowest income?
What is dependence on children, lack of access to health care, and a reduced use of contraception?
The common indicators used in the study of population.
What are birth rate, death rate, fertility rate, natural increase and net migration?
This is what GITs are used for.
What are GPS, digital cartography, remote sensing and more?
The broad causes of human migration.
What are social and economic, environmental, and political and religious factors?