population test review

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Today in class we went over what is going to be on the test on Friday. The test is going to be one hundred points and about thirty questions. Some of the things that are going on the test are twelve questions on the CIA fact book some matching questions on some important terms Crude Death Rate, Total Fertility Rate, Crude Birth Rate, Unemployment Rate,
Net Migration Rate, Population Growth Rate, Infant Mortality Rate, Maternal Mortality Rate,  
Rate of Natural Increase Life Expectancy, GDP Per Capita, and Population Pyramid. We are also going to have questions on life expectancy, crude birth and death rate of natural increase, measuring math, measurements of population, push and pull forces and naming two countries that have them and why and this will be four questions.

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