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Guided Reading Activity
Evaluating the Economy
Chapter 12
Lesson 2 Population Growth and Trends
Review Questions
Directions: Read each main idea and then complete the statements below. Refer to your textbook as you write
the answers.
A. Population in the United States
Main Idea: The census is a count and analysis of the U.S. population. It examines the number of people living in
the United States, where they live, their income,
and other key factors that help guide government policies.
1. The
of the United States requires the government to periodically take a
which is an official count of all the people living in the country and their place
of
2. The Census Bureau uses the
categories like
as its primary survey unit and classifies its data into
and rural population.
3. In the United States, the rate of population growth is slowly
steady trend toward.
households.
4. Because it takes a long time to plan and construct a country's.
understand changes in migration and
B. Projected Population Trends
and there has been a
it is important to
population trends.
Main Idea: Changes in the type and number of different population groups help the government allocate
resources and anticipate problems or changing
circumstances. Immigration and the age structure of the
nation's
population are two such significant indicators.
1. A population
is a diagram that shows the population by age group and
2. People born during the baby.
that occurred after World War II make up a large
segment of the population, and as they age it is changing the.
ratio.