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death rate | number of deaths per year for every 1,000 people |
birth rate | number of children born each year per 1,000 people. |
immigrants | people who enter and move to another country |
urbanization | the growth of urban areas or cities |
migration | moving from one place to another |
rural areas | areas that are less populated and include farmlands |
emigrants | people who LEAVE or EXIT their homes to move to another area |
urban areas | areas that are densely populated and include cities and suburbs |
refugee | people who flee a country because of violence or persecution |
famine | severe lack of food |
population density | average number of people living in a square mile or km |
internal migration | moving from place to place in the same country |
push factors | convince people to leave their homes, shortage of farmland, natural disaster, escape wars, persecution |
pull factors | convince people to move to a new area such as lure of jobs and opportunities |
unevenly | People are distributed ___________ on the earth. |
asylum | protection that is given by one country to refugees from another. |
civil war | a war between different groups within one country. |
migrant | Unlike a ____________, a refugee is escaping violence or persecution. |
doubling time | the number of years it takes a population to double in size based on its current growth rate. |
population distribution | the geographic pattern of where people live on earth |