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Flashcards by Riona Stevenson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Riona Stevenson
about 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Balanced diet | A combination of foods from each of the different food groups that gives the body the correct amount of the nutrients it needs |
| Birth rate | The number of babies born per 1,000 of the total population in one year |
| Bustee | Poor living area found in Culcatta; also called a shanty town |
| Core region | Centre of economic power |
| Crop rotation | The practice of changing the type of crop grown in an area from year to year |
| Cycle | A series of events repeated in the same order |
| Death rate | The number of deaths per 1,000 of the population from year to year |
| Decline | A downward or reducing movement |
| Demographer | A person who studies population change and structure |
| Demographic transition model | Theory linking population changes to developments in the economy, education and health care; also called population cycle |
| Developing world | Poor countries with fewer services and low living standards, also known as the South or Third World countries |
| Dweller | A person who inhabits a particular place |
| Family planning | The practicing of controlling the number of children in a family and the intervals between their births |
| Fluctuate | To rise and fall irregularly in a number or amount |
| Global | Of or relating to the whole world; worldwide |
| Impact | The influence or effect that something has |
| Irrigation | The artificial watering of land |
| Periphery | The outer limits or edge of an area or object |
| Rapid | Happening in a short amount of time at a great rate |
| Sanitation | Conditions relating to public health and the provision of clean drinking water and adequate sewage disposal |
| Selective breeding | The process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits |
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