Unit 4 Geography Vocab Crossword

The maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population.
The number of live births per thousand of population per year
The ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year.
The speed natural items are consumed.
The period of time required for a quantity to double in size or value.
In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
;of or characteristic of a suburb.
A worker who moves from place to place to do seasonal work.
The level of wealth, comfort, material goods and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class or a certain geographic area.
A nation or a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex.
A statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of their birth, their current age and other demographic factors including sex.
The action or process of making a copy of something.
The period during pregnancy and shortly after childbirth.
The crime of killing a child within a year of birth.
The deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.
The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.
The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.
Surgery to make a person or animal unable to produce offspring.
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.