Key Terms & Other Important Concepts: Jeopardy Style
The total number of people in an area.
What is Population?
They study populations of the world.
What do Demographers do?
How people are spread across an area.
What is Population distribution?
The number of people per square mile or kilometer
What is Population density?
Few people per square mile
Spare, thin or rural area
Many people per square mile
Dense, thick or urban area
These landforms tend to have high levels of population.
What are plains and valleys with fertile soil?
Most major civilization began along these.
What are River valleys?
These landforms tend to have low levels of population.
What are rugged mountains and deserts?
These served as natural roads and trade route.
What are rivers?
People prefer to live in these kinds of climates.
What are moderate climates
These features include forests as well as minerals.
What are natural resources?
These continents have 81% of the Earth’s population?
What are Asia, Europe and North America
Only 18 million people live in this continent-country that features deserts and dry grasslands.
What is Australia?
Most of the people that do live in this continent-country live here.
What is along the coast?
This city in Japan has over 1, people per square mile.
What is Tokyo?
This famous river valley of southwestern Asia has over 5,000 people pee square mile.
What is the Nile river valley?
This type of map uses colors or different patterns to show how many people per square mile live in an area.
What is a population density map?
About 7 billion people right now.
What is the population of the world?
In this year world population began to increase dramatically.
What is 1800?
The number of live births per thousand people.
What is the birth rate?
The number of deaths per thousand people.
What is the death rate?
A higher birth rate than death rate.
What is a positive rate of population increase?
For many centuries this was short but now, particularly in wealthy countries, has increased significantly.
What is life expectancy?
One of two reasons for the rising populations of modern times.
What are scientific and medical advances?
The development of new farming methods and techniques since WW II.
What is the green revolution?
These medical practices prevent diseases such as polio, small pox and measles.
What are vaccines?
In general, this continent still faces problems feeding its population.
What is Africa?
These are two of the economic challenges still faced by poorer areas with growing populations.
What are decent housing, schools, jobs and public services?
Poorer areas tend to place a lower priority on this area, which leads to the over cutting of forests.
What is the environment?
The movement of people from one area to another.
What is migration?
Moving from one country to another
What is immigration?
A theory that explains migration.
What is the push-pull theory?
Factors that drive or force people from the area that they live in.
What are push factors?
Factors that attract or lure people to a new area?
What are pull factors?
The potato famine of their native country helped force many people to migrate to the United States in the mid 19th century.
Who are the Irish?
Southern and eastern Europeans came to this country in large numbers during this period.
What is the late 19th and early 20th century?
An area with low population density.
What is a rural area?
An area with high population density.
What is an urban area?
In the United States, many people have moved from this area to the south and southwest.
What is the northeast?
What is Population?
They study populations of the world.
What do Demographers do?
How people are spread across an area.
What is Population distribution?
The number of people per square mile or kilometer
What is Population density?
Few people per square mile
Spare, thin or rural area
Many people per square mile
Dense, thick or urban area
These landforms tend to have high levels of population.
What are plains and valleys with fertile soil?
Most major civilization began along these.
What are River valleys?
These landforms tend to have low levels of population.
What are rugged mountains and deserts?
These served as natural roads and trade route.
What are rivers?
People prefer to live in these kinds of climates.
What are moderate climates
These features include forests as well as minerals.
What are natural resources?
These continents have 81% of the Earth’s population?
What are Asia, Europe and North America
Only 18 million people live in this continent-country that features deserts and dry grasslands.
What is Australia?
Most of the people that do live in this continent-country live here.
What is along the coast?
This city in Japan has over 1, people per square mile.
What is Tokyo?
This famous river valley of southwestern Asia has over 5,000 people pee square mile.
What is the Nile river valley?
This type of map uses colors or different patterns to show how many people per square mile live in an area.
What is a population density map?
About 7 billion people right now.
What is the population of the world?
In this year world population began to increase dramatically.
What is 1800?
The number of live births per thousand people.
What is the birth rate?
The number of deaths per thousand people.
What is the death rate?
A higher birth rate than death rate.
What is a positive rate of population increase?
For many centuries this was short but now, particularly in wealthy countries, has increased significantly.
What is life expectancy?
One of two reasons for the rising populations of modern times.
What are scientific and medical advances?
The development of new farming methods and techniques since WW II.
What is the green revolution?
These medical practices prevent diseases such as polio, small pox and measles.
What are vaccines?
In general, this continent still faces problems feeding its population.
What is Africa?
These are two of the economic challenges still faced by poorer areas with growing populations.
What are decent housing, schools, jobs and public services?
Poorer areas tend to place a lower priority on this area, which leads to the over cutting of forests.
What is the environment?
The movement of people from one area to another.
What is migration?
Moving from one country to another
What is immigration?
A theory that explains migration.
What is the push-pull theory?
Factors that drive or force people from the area that they live in.
What are push factors?
Factors that attract or lure people to a new area?
What are pull factors?
The potato famine of their native country helped force many people to migrate to the United States in the mid 19th century.
Who are the Irish?
Southern and eastern Europeans came to this country in large numbers during this period.
What is the late 19th and early 20th century?
An area with low population density.
What is a rural area?
An area with high population density.
What is an urban area?
In the United States, many people have moved from this area to the south and southwest.
What is the northeast?