Demography, Diffusion, and Change

population distribution

• Description of locations on Earth's surface where populations live
• A country that has low industrial production and little modern technology
• When cultures separate and become different
• the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time

Places people don't like to live:

• mountains, deserts, polar regions
• A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
• Weaving, sewing, carving, and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home.
• The number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time

places people like to live

• near water, fertile river valleys
• a map that shows how many people live in an area
• uses dots to indicate where major towns and cities are located
• the average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have in her lifetime

Resources

• materials found in the earth that people need and value
• a modern, industrialized country in which people are generally better educated and healthier and live longer than people in developing countries do
• the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
• death rate

resources create-

• jobs
• A movement from one country or region to another
• The tendency for cultures to become more alike
• The percentage of children who die before their first birthday within a particular area or country.

population density map

• a map that shows how many people live in an area
• a war between citizens of the same country.
• The sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a nation
• regulation of the number or spacing of offspring through the use of birth control

Dot population map

• uses dots to indicate where major towns and cities are located
• A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.
• The study of where and why human activities are located where they are
• the percentage of people in a country who can read and write

Urbanization

• Movement of people from rural areas to cities
• An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.
• the study of physical features of the earth's surface
• Weaving, sewing, carving, and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home.

Megacity

• City with more than 10 million people
• An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the level of development for a country through a combination of income, education, and life expectancy.
• The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
• farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced

carrying capacity

• The largest population that an area can support
• Big business, for profit. opposite of subsistence agriculture
• the percentage of people in a country who can read and write
• Big business, for profit. opposite of subsistence agriculture