Gabriella Spilker                                                                                                             9/22/14

                                                                       Human Geo

     Today in Human Geo we continued talking about different terms having to do with our population. Instead of writing a paragraph blog. Instead I'm going to share with you some of the key terms I have learned over the past few days.

Life expectancy- The average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year.

Crude birth date- The number of births per 1000 of the population

Crude death rate- The number of death per 1000 of the population

Developing nations- a less developed country that has no health care and not enough food or water

Developed nation- a country that has good health care and enough for everyone to survive

Rate of natural increase- produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate

Net migration rate- the difference between the number of persons entering and leaveing a country during a year

Immigration- persons entering the country

Emigration- persons leaving the country

Push forces- something that makes you want to leave the country like, civil war, environment degradation, unemployment or underemployment, and religious or ethnic persecution

Pull forces- something that makes you want to go to a country like, better economic opportunity, better heath services, religious freedom, and political freedom

Total fertility rate- the average number of children born per women