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Section 2
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9th Grade
11/28/2012

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Term
Birthrate
Definition
The number of live births per thousand population.
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Fertility rate
Definition
The average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have in her lifetime.
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Mortality rate
Definition
The number ofdeaths per thousand people.
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Infant mortality rate
Definition
The number of deaths amoung infants under age one per thousand live births.
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Rate of natural increase
Definition
The population growth rate.
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population pyramid
Definition
Graphic device that shows sex and age distribution of a population.
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Push factor
Definition
Those that cause people to leave their homeland and migrate to another region.
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Pull factor
Definition
Draw or attract people to another location.
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population density
Definition
The average number of people who live
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Carrying capacity
Definition
The number of organisms a piece of land can support.
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