07 - Populations and Consumption

Question 1

Crude Birth Rate vs Crude Death Rate

Answer 1

CBR: number of births per 1000 individuals per year
CDR: number of deaths per 1000 individuals per year

Question 2

Crude Growth Rate

Answer 2

Crude Birth Rate MINUS Crude Death Rate

Question 3

average number of children per woman in her lifetime

Answer 3

Total fertility rate (TFR)

Question 4

The fertility rate that sustains a population

Answer 4

Replacement-level fertility

Question 5

distribution of age groups in a population

Answer 5

population age structure

Question 6

vertical chart, five-year increments typical, of male and female numbers

Answer 6

population pyramid

Question 7

Science of Populations

Answer 7

Demography

Question 8

population change from high birth/death rate to low birth/death rate

Answer 8

Demographic Transition

Question 9

decline in death rate

Answer 9

Epidemiological Transition

Question 10

net population movement, typically for opportunity (food) or escape (conflict)

Answer 10

Migration

Question 11

move forced by abrupt/long-term negative environmental alteration

Answer 11

Environmental Migration

Question 12

measure of numbers of individuals per unit area

Answer 12

Population Density

Question 13

geometric population increase, a percentage, produces a J-shaped curve

Answer 13

Exponential Growth

Question 14

“affluenza” high material and energy demands (home, machines, etc.)

Answer 14

modern consumerism

Question 15

as a country undergoes economic development and industrialization, income inequality initially increases, then reaches a peak, and eventually decreases.

Answer 15

Kuznets Curve