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Across 5. The number of people living in a place is known as its ..... (10) 7. The average number of years people in any particular place can expect to live. (4 & 10) 12. The continent with the fewest people living in it. Found around the South Pole.(10) 14. The kind of environment found in central Australia which makes it hard to live there (6) 15. Many women in China were forced to have these in order to keep down the birth rate (9) 17. When a place has more people living in it than it can cope with and support (14) 18. This country will soon overtake China as having the biggest population on the planet. (5)

Down 1. A place that has few people living in it is known as ......... populated. (8) 2. How crowded a place is - the number of people per sq. kilometre (10 & 7) 3. A country that forced couples to only have one child (5) 4. Building these important buildings in a country should help to reduce the death rate.(9) 6. The average number of deaths per 1000 people each year (5 & 4) 8. The number of babies born per 1000 people each year (5 & 4) 9. An important human, positive factor that encourages many people to live in a place. (4) 10. How people are spread across the world or a place. Best seen on a population ......... map. (12) 11. If this occurs within a country, or between countries, the death rate may suddenly rise (3) 13. What happened to the population of the world in the 20th Century. There was a population ....(9) 16. The geographical term for a crowded area. It is ...... populated. (7)