Geography 4 -- Alabama 7th Grade Geography Stand. 4 #CCRS #DCVS

The number of individuals in an area.

• Population Proportionality

• Population Density

• Demographic Density

• Crowd Density

Dothan has a population density of _ people per square mile.

• 778

• 1978

• 155

• 1588

"_" refers to patterns of population distribution, that is, how people space themselves out in an area.

• Urban Sprawl

• Spacedness

• Popular diaspora

• Population dispersion

Refers to the number of deaths in a given area for a given period.

• Mortality Rate

• Death Clock

• Mortal Engines

• Mortgage Rate

"The rate of _ refers to the difference between the number of live births and the number of deaths occurring in a year, divided by the mid-year population of that year, multiplied by a factor (usually 1,000)." Source: the OECD definition.

• natural increase

• artificial increase

• mortality rate

• baby boom

"_" is a math concept that applies to finance, medicine, biology, and geography. It simply refers to the amount of time required for something, such as the human population of an area, to double.

• Doubling time

• Half time

• Whole time

• Growth rate

Human populations _ around needed resources. For example, towns arose near gold mines in California during the gold rush.

• dance

• cluster

• flee

• disperse

_ are mainly found in southern Asia. The nations with the most of these are India and China.

• Major population clusters

• Minor population clusters

• Population deserts

• Population dead zones

_ refers to the composition of a population. Common ways to analyze this are in terms of sex and age.

• Demographic structure

• Demographic clusters

• Demographic origins

• Demographic restrictions

_ are graphs showing the demographic structure of a population by age and sex.

• Population pyramids

• Human pyramids

• Population cluster graphs

• Vector pyramids