Units 1 & 2: Geography Basics/Population & Migration

The total number of live births a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.

Theme that focuses on how humans and environment affect one another.

Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support

Theme that has both physical and human characteristics -- what's it like there?

Used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian.

The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

The number of people who are too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years

Areas that share unifying characteristics

This is a bar graph representing the distribution of age and sex. This is known as a ______

Located at 23 degrees south latitude

A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live

The total number of deaths a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.

What does a topographic map show?

The number of people occupying an area of land.

The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.

All of the following represent traits of physical geography EXCEPT:

The position of a place in relation to another place

How people, goods, and ideas are moved from place to place.

A term used to describe how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place

A factor that induces people to leave old residences

Theory that population will eventually outpace food production.

Exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates

A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development

Regions grouped together by the stage of the demographic transition model that most countries in the region are in.

0 degrees longitude -- splits the earth into eastern and western hemispheres.

The scientific study of population characteristics.

The percentage by which a population grows in a year.

A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development.

A factor that induces people to move to a new location

0 degrees latitude -- splits the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.

Theme that focuses on where we are -- can be referred to as absolute or relative

When population differences are well represented within a community.

The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years.

Movement of the Earth around the sun: contributes to the seasons of the year. Takes 365 ¼ days.