Population and Migration

Question 1

What is population?

Answer 1

The number of people in a particular place

Question 2

What is population density?

Answer 2

The number of people per km squared

Question 3

What is population distribution?

Answer 3

How a population is spread out over an area

Question 4

What is birth rate?

Answer 4

The number of babies being born per 1000 people

Question 5

What is death rate?

Answer 5

The number of people who die per 1000 people

Question 6

What is population growth rate?

Answer 6

The speed at which the population increases

Question 7

What is natural increase?

Answer 7

The difference between the number of live births and the number of deaths during the year.

Question 8

What does dense mean?

Answer 8

Crowded closely together

Question 9

What does sparse mean?

Answer 9

Widely spaced, empty

Question 10

What is a cluster?

Answer 10

Grouped together

Question 11

What is an ageing population?

Answer 11

The growth in the proportion of older people (usually 65 years and over) in the population

Question 12

What is population structure?

Answer 12

The number of males and females of different ages in a population

Question 13

What is life expectancy?

Answer 13

How long a person can be expected to live

Question 14

What is migration?

Answer 14

The movement from one place to another

Question 15

What are immigrants?

Answer 15

People who move into a country

Question 16

What are emigrants?

Answer 16

People who move out of a country and into another

Question 17

What is net migration?

Answer 17

The difference between both immigration and emigration in one country (maybe a positive or negative number)

Question 18

What is international migration?

Answer 18

Migration across borders

Question 19

What are economic migrants?

Answer 19

People that move from one country to another to advance their economic and professional prospects

Question 20

What are asylum seekers?

Answer 20

A person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another country

Question 21

What are refugees?

Answer 21

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. A refugee has already received a positive decision from the authorities on their asylum claim

Question 22

What are illegal immigrants?

Answer 22

A person who arrives in a country without permission

Question 23

What is persecution?

Answer 23

Treating people badly because of their beliefs or race

Question 24

What are descendants?

Answer 24

Relatives born after someone, such as children or grandchildren

Question 25

What does diverse mean?

Answer 25

Having lots of variety

Question 26

What is a choropleth map?

Answer 26

A map that is shaded according to a range of values presented in a key. They are shaded in using one colour, where the darker shades represent high numbers and the lighter shades represent low numbers.

Question 27

What is urbanisation?

Answer 27

When an increasing percentage of a country's population moves to towns or cities

Question 28

What is an urban area?

Answer 28

A town or city

Question 29

What is a push factor?

Answer 29

Something that makes people want to leave an area

Question 30

What is a pull factor?

Answer 30

Something that makes people want to move to an area

Question 31

What is a sector?

Answer 31

A type of job or part of the economy

Question 32

What is a rural area?

Answer 32

In the countryside

Question 33

What is a commuter village?

Answer 33

A village, often with housing estates, close to a town or city. People live there but commute to work elsewhere

Question 34

What is a hamlet?

Answer 34

An isolated cluster of houses or farms, usually with no shops or services

Question 35

What is a village?

Answer 35

A community with a variety of houses, some shops or other services

Question 36

What does commute mean?

Answer 36

To travel to and from another place for work

Question 37

How do you work out percentage increase?

Answer 37

Work out the difference between the two numbers, divide that by the first number, multiply that number by 100