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Grades 6, 7 and 8 - Geography - Middle School - Population
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In Geography the word 'population' means the people living in a given area. Population is all the inhabitants of a particular place. A census is carried out to find out about a country's population. Population growth increased significantly as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace from 1700 onwards. The last 50 years have seen a yet more rapid increase.  A mass migration can change the population of a country. Human population control is the practice of curtailing population increase, usually by reducing the birth rate. Surviving records from Ancient Greece document the first known examples... Show more
Grades 6, 7 and 8 - Geography - Middle School - Population
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1. What is the best way to describe the UK's population?
2. What does population structure mean?
3. How is natural population growth defined?
4. The difference between birth rate and death rate is called what?
5. Which is not a reason why people in less developed countries often have large families?
6. Which 'transition model' shows changes in population size over time?
7. Population grows slowly in MEDCs. What is not a reason for this?
8. The average number of children born to each woman is called the what?
9. What is the opposite of urban?
10. What is meant by population distribution?
11. A city with 10 million people or more is called what?
12. When a person moves for less than a year it is known as what?
13. Which is a 'pull' factor in migration?
14. Birth and death rates are always given per what?
15. An LEDC's population structure has which most common age group?
16. What word describes a low population density?
17. Moving by choice is what sort of migration?
18. Which of these has the highest population density?
19. If birth rate is higher than death rate what will happen?
20. In 2010 what was the approximate world population?
21. Which of these encourages people to have fewer children?
22. What do the letters LEDC mean?
23. What term means the average age people will live to?
24. Which is an example of international migration?
25. What term means someone moving within a country?