Population Vocabulary

The term meaning the total number of people in a population at a given time compared to the number of deaths

• birthrate

• population density

• population distribution

• death rate

If the population is 1 million in the year 2000 and in 2025 the population is 2 million. This is an example of ______

• birthrate

• population distribution

• doubling time

• urbanization

Areas that are lightly populated are known as _____ areas.

• megalopolis

• urban areas

• rural ares

• population density

The number of babies being born compared to the total number of people in a population at a given time.

• birthrate

• death rate

• population distribution

• population density

Huge cities with a very large population.

• Urban Areas

• Rural Areas

• Urbanization

• Megalopolis

The geographic pattern of where people live on Earth.

• Population Density

• Population Distribution

• Urbanization

• Immigrate

Areas that are lightly populated are commonly referred to as _____ areas.

• Urban

• Megalopolis

• Rural

• Emigrate

To leave one's home and live in a new country.

• immigrate

• emigrate

• refugee

• urban

To immigrate is....

• to leave one's home and live in another place

• to enter and live in a new country

• people who flee a country because of violence, war, or persecution.

• to understand the geographic pattern of the way people live on earth.

Refugees are...

• people who leave their home to live in another place

• enter and live in a new country

• areas that are lightly populated.

• people who flee their country because of violence, war, or persecution.