Answer to worksheet

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1. Birth rate
2. Migration
3. Urban settlement
4. Pre-history
5. Archeology
6. Mortality
7. Infant mortality
Short answer
1. Advancements in scientific knowledge, agriculture, industry, medicine; Improvement in
peoples living conditions; Humans ability to control famine and disease, which have been
major killers of humans; The relatively lower cost of importing vaccines, antibiotics,
insecticides, and high-yielding varieties of seeds.
2. fertility, mortality and migrations
3. Low access to contraceptives; Backwardness and poverty; Low status of women; Need of
children’s for labour; Children are considered as symbol of virility and Low educational
background.
4. Low standard of living; Low access to health facilities; Poor nutrition, and sanitary practices;
Civil war and political instability; Wide spread of famine and starvation; High incidence of
disease and infections.
5. Natural resources (water, soil, vegetation and minerals etc); The nature of topography (slope
and altitude); Climate condition (mainly rainfall and temperature)
6. A. Asiatic population belt B. Peninsular Europe C. North-eastern North America
7.

DEFFINITION
1. Homo sapiens- (wise human being) were very similar to modern human being
2. Hominids were the ancestors of human beings
3. homo habilis (handy human being) is considered to be the oldest human being that
appeared in Africa.
4. Home erectus (up right walking human being) was the first human being to master the use
of fire and the earliest species to migrate from Africa to other part of the world.
5. Birth rate is the most common and simplest index of fertility. It is simply the number of
live births observed in one year among one thousand people in a given region.
6. Rural settlement refers to peoples live in villages and dispersed (scattered) settlements in
areas far from urban centres. In rural settlements peoples are mainly engaged in agriculture.