Chapter 3 Managing Human Population Key Words

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Across
  1. 2. The number of males and females within different age groups in a given population.
  2. 5. The difference between the birth rates and death rates in a population; natural increase differs from overall increase.
  3. 7. The number of live births per thousand people in the population, per year. Also known as the crude birth rate as it does not take age or gender into account.
  4. 10. To leave one community or area in order to settle in another area.
  5. 14. These are factors that are causing people to leave an area. They may include factors such as war, drought, floods or the lack of housing, food, education, jobs or a poor standard of living.
  6. 16. The way in which the population is spread out across a given area.
  7. 17. refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.
  8. 19. The number of people living in a square kilometre (or other unit of area).
  9. 22. A policy that discourages human reproduction.
  10. 24. The ratio is the measure of the dependents (non-working) portion of the population (age groups 0-14 and 65+) compared to the total independent (working) portion of the population ( 15 - 64 years). The ratio is expressed as the number of dependents per hundred people in the workforce. Also referred to as total dependency ratio.
  11. 26. The number of children, per 1000 live births, that die under the age of five in a population in a year.
  12. 27. The number of deaths per thousand people in the population, per year.
  13. 28. the ratio that is a measure of the young dependents (age 0 – 14) in a population, people younger than the age of 15 in relation to the working–age population (15 - 64 years old) as a ratio.
  14. 29. A population with a high percentage of old people (aged 65 years or older).
  15. 30. The change in the size of a population due to birth and death rates.
Down
  1. 1. A population with a high percentage of young people (15 years or younger).
  2. 3. The change in the size of a population due to birth rates, death rates and net migration rates.
  3. 4. The average age that a new-born child is expected to live to.
  4. 6. The study of how and why populations change in size and how they can be managed.
  5. 8. The movement of peoples from one place in the world to another.
  6. 9. is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population (typically that of a country or region of the world), which forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.
  7. 11. Industry that converts raw materials such as farming or mining products into products for sale. The manufacturing industry.
  8. 12. The number of infant deaths for every 1000 live births, of children under the age of one.
  9. 13. The difference between the birth rates and death rates, and the change in numbers due to migration, in a population.
  10. 15. A policy that promotes human reproduction.
  11. 18. To move into an area or region in order to settle down and live.
  12. 20. The ratio where the number of old dependents (age 65+) in a population, people older than 64 in relation to the working-age population (15 - 64 years old) as a ratio. The ratio is expressed as the total number of old dependents per hundred people in the workforce.
  13. 21. industry such as mining, agriculture, fishing or forestry that are harvesting raw materials.
  14. 23. When water soaks into soils, removing the minerals and nutrients and reducing their ability to support plant life.
  15. 25. The difference between the number of people entering a country (immigration) and the number of people leaving a country (emigration).