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2. The deaths of infants and children under the 1. The study of the characteristics of human
age of 5 populations, such as size, growth, density,
7. A large concentration of population, usually an distribution, and vital statistics.
area with 100,000 or more people. 3. Also known as industrialized countries (or
8. A group of objects or organisms of the same regions), include Europe (including all of Russia),
kind. the United States, Canada, Australia, New
9. Movement of one part of something to another. Zealand, and Japan.
Can happen within a country or from one country 4. A poor agricultural country that is seeking to
to another. become more advanced economically.
10. Is the process by which an economy is 5. graphical illustration that shows the distribution
transformed from primarily agricultural to one of various age groups in a population (typically that
based on the manufacturing of goods. of a country or region of the world), which forms
11. A community or settlement with a population of the shape of a pyramid when the population is
2,000 or more growing.
13. The average period that a person may expect 6. is a measurement of population per unit area or
to live. unit volume – usually measured per 1000.
14. A survey of a given area, resulting in an 12. he number of deaths per 1,000 population in a
account of the entire population and often the given year.
gathering of other data relating to that population
at a specific time.
15. The number of live births per thousand of
population per year.