Population and Migration Vocabulary Spatial diffusion Spatial analysis
Population and Migration Vocabulary • Spatial diffusion • Spatial analysis • Demography • Population density • Population distribution • Birth rate • Death rate • Dense • Migration • Overpopulation • Push Factor • Pull Factor • Refugee • Immigrant • Satellite Image • Urbanization • Rural • Cohesiveness • Population Pyramid • Center of Population
Spatial diffusion • The spread of people and ideas from one place to another
Spatial analysis • how geographers study the space used on Earth
Demography • the statistical study of human population
Population density • the number of people living in an area per square mile
Population distribution • where people live in the world; they are unevenly distributed throughout the world
Birth rate • the number of live births per 1000 people in a region
Death rate • the number of deaths per 1000 people in a region
Dense • crowded with people, thick
Migration • the process of moving from one place to live in another
Overpopulation • existing number of people is too large to be supported by the available resources
Push Factor • negative factors which cause people to leave a place
Pull Factor • positive factors which attract people to a place
Refugee • people who have been forced to leave a country and cannot return
Immigrant • when people enter a country to live from another country
Satellite Image • a geographer’s tool to analyze objects or places from space which is useful for showing changes over time
Urbanization • metropolitan or city
Rural • country side
Cohesiveness • the force of bringing group members closer together
Population Pyramid • a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and gender
Center of Population • A geographical point that describes a center point of the region's population.
Examples • Be sure to add examples or use the term in a sentence on each of the index cards
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