Population and settlement

Question 1

Birth Rate

Answer 1

The number of live births per

1000 population per year.

Question 2

Death Rate

Answer 2

The number of deaths per 1000 per year.

Question 3

Natural Increase

Answer 3

The birth rate is higher than the death rate.

Question 4

Natural Decrease

Answer 4

The death is higher and the birth rate

Question 5

Infant Mortality Rate

Answer 5

The number of children per 1000 that die before they are 1 yrs old.

Question 6

Life Expectancy

Answer 6

The average age a person

can expect to live to.

Question 7

Migration

Answer 7

The movement of people.

Question 8

Fertility Rate

Answer 8

The average number of babies a woman has.

Question 9

Exponential growth

Answer 9

The population growth rate increases.

Question 10

Ageing Population

Answer 10

An increase in the proportion

of elderly people in an area.

Question 11

Youthful Population

Answer 11

Proportion of young people in an area

Question 12

Population structure

Answer 12

How many people there are of each of each age group and each sex in the population

Question 13

Overpopulation

Answer 13

An excessive number of people in an area straining available resources and facilities

Question 14

Immigration

Answer 14

When people move into an area

Question 15

Emigration

Answer 15

When people exit an area

Question 16

Refugees

Answer 16

People who’ve been forced to leave their countries due to things like war, persecution or a natural disaster.

Question 17

Economic migrants

Answer 17

People who move voluntarily from poorer places to richer places looking for jobs or higher wages.

Question 18

Urbanisation

Answer 18

The growth in the proportion of a country’s population living in urban areas

Question 19

Rural-urban migration

Answer 19

Movement of people from the countryside to the cities

Question 20

Self-help schemes

Answer 20

The government supplies materials so people can build their own homes

Question 21

Site and service schemes

Answer 21

People pay a low rent for a site and the money is used to provide basic services for the area

Question 22

Counter-urbanisation

Answer 22

Movement of people out of cities and into rural areas

Question 23

High order goods

Answer 23

Goods that are only bought occasionally and usually more expensive

Question 24

Low order goods

Answer 24

Goods that are bought frequently and usually quite cheap

Question 25

Threshold population

Answer 25

Minimum population needed to support a shop

Question 26

Sphere of influence

Answer 26

The area that people come form to visit a shop or an area

Question 27

Range

Answer 27

The distance people will travel for a particular good or service

Question 28

Green belt

Answer 28

An area of open land around a city, on which building is restricted

Question 29

Brownfield site

Answer 29

An urban site which has potential building development which has already been built on

Question 30

Greenfield site

Answer 30

A previously undeveloped site which will be developed on or exploited