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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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