Population Study Guide

What is a population?

• One individual member of a species

• a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area

• a community of different species and their environment

Emigration is

• the movement out of an area

• the movement into an area

• movement in and out of an area

• migration

What is the carrying capacity mean?

• The number of individuals an area can carry

• the number of births

• The number of deaths an area has

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What is population density?

• An increase in the amount of people in one area.

• Population divided by the total area.

• The number of people in a geographic area.

• The pattern where people live.

Birthrate is . . .

• the amount of people born / 10 people.

• the amount of people born / 100 people.

• the amount of people born / 10,000 people.

• the amount of people born / 1,000 people.

Moving into a population’s range is called (Incoming)

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Demography

This is a graphic device that shows gender and age distribution of a population

These are factors that cause people to leave their homeland and migrate to another region

These are factors that draw or attract people to another location

What does the whole right side of the population pyramid represent?

• Males

• Females

• Unemployed

• Young people