Core Concepts 6: Population and Movement

When the birth rate is higher than the death rate, population tends to _______.

• grow

• decline

• stay the same

• go extinct

What is a cause of growth in a population?

• better medical care

• less wild animals

• kinder people

• more pollution

What is a positive effect of population growth?

• can produce and consume more goods and services

• can run out resources needed to survive.

• can lead to desertification

• can lead to a higher infant mortality rate

What is a negative effect of population growth?

• better medical care

• better food production

• less pollution

• could run out of resources needed to survive

What is the spreading of people over an area of land?

• population distribution

• population density

• migration

• emigrate

What is the number of people per unit of land area?

• population distribution

• population density

• migration

• emigrate

The more people there are per square mile, the _________ a place is.

• more crowded

• less crowded

• more animals

• less pollution

What is the movement of people from one place to another?

• migration

• population distribution

• population density

• urbanization

Which one means to migrate out of a place?

• emigrate

• immigrate

• push factor

• pull factor

Which one means to migrate into a place?

• emigrate

• immigrate

• push factor

• pull factor