Unit 1&2 Vocab
Across
- 4. people forced to flee their homes
- 7. people who study human populations
- 8. The number of people who are too young or too old to work
- 10. the general attitudes of a population to important issues such as family size, contraception, religion, politics etc.
- 11. population decline in a rural area. It is usually the most isolated rural areas that are affected.
- 12. the number of emigrants per thousand population leaving a country of origin in a year.
- 14. policies that promote larger families.
- 18. number live births per thousand population
- 21. Those aged between 16-64 who are eligible to work
- 24. A bar graph representing the distribution of population
- 25. the best balance between a population and the resources available to it. This is usually viewed as the population giving the highest average living standards in a country.
Down
- 1. population decentralization
- 2. the average number of children a woman has during her lifetime.
- 3. policies that aim to reduce population growth.
- 5. people are working less than they would need to
- 6. the largest population that the resources of a given environment can support.
- 9. money sent back to their families
- 13. too few people in an area
- 15. the number of immigrants per thousand population entering a receiving country in a year.
- 16. push factors are negative conditions at the point of origin which encourage or force people to move. In contrast, pull factors are positive conditions at the point of destination which encourage people to migrate.
- 17. number of deaths per thousand population
- 19. difference in immigration &emigration
- 20. movement of people across a specified boundary
- 22. too many people in an area
- 23. number of people in a population decline