GRADE 8 SOCIAL STUDIES · CHAPTER 1
Maps, geography & people
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Population geography
Account for population change
Calculate change in an invented population from births, deaths and migration without treating all growth as one cause.
AN EXAMPLE FROM THIS CHAPTER
A town starts with 1,000 people. There are 30 births and 10 deaths, with no migration. What is the ending population?
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1,020
1,000 + 30 − 10 = 1,020.
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