Populations in Transition & Global Climate
Across
- 3. Number of people living in a given area, expressed as people per square kilometre (10,7)
- 6. Population policy that encourages families to have fewer children (12,5)
- 7. A city with more than 10 million people living in it
- 10. The ratio of males to females in a population (3,5)
- 11. A situation where the birth rate decreases and the number of elderly people increases (6,10)
- 13. The benefits that come from a very large population of the population being in the adult age range, and a reduced proportion of young and /or elderly (11,8)
- 15. aka natural greenhouse effect, this is where certain gases allow short-wave radiation from the sun to pass through the atmosphere but trap some. This allows warming of the atmosphere (10,6)
- 16. A measure of non-workers divided by the workers. It compares the number of dependents and economically active members of society (10,5)
- 17. The average number of children born to a woman if she lives to the end of her child-bearing years (10,4)
- 18. The average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year in the same country (9,4)
- 19. The balance between incoming short-wave radiation and outgoing short-wave and long-wave radiation (6,7)
- 20. Population policy that encourages families to have more children (11,5)
Down
- 1. Migration that occurs due to war, persecution, famine, slavery, politics or natural disasters creating refugees and internally displaced people (6,9)
- 2. The movement of a population away from one part of a country to another. It occurs when people choose to move (9,8,9)
- 4. The growth in a population as a result of birth rates exceeding death rates (7,8)
- 5. The increase in temperatures around the world that has been noticed since the 1960s (6,7)
- 8. The increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, as a result of human activities and their impact on atmospheric systems (8,10,6)
- 9. Changes in a system that occur and lead to other changes, but eventually the whole system stabilises (8,8)
- 12. The location of people within an area (10,12)
- 14. Changes in a system that lead to greater deviation from the original condition (8,8)