Age Structure Diagrams and Total Fertility Rates

Question 1

What is demography the study of?

Answer 1

Human populations and population trends

Question 2

What is a demographer?

Answer 2

A scientist who studies the field of demography

Question 3

What is immigration?

Answer 3

The movement of people into a country or region, from another country or region

Question 4

Emigration

Answer 4

The movement of people out of a country or region

Question 5

Crude birth rate

Answer 5

The number of births per 1,000 individuals

Question 6

Crude death rate

Answer 6

The number of deaths per 1,000 individuals

Question 7

Net migration rate

Answer 7

The difference between immigration and emigration in a given year per 1,000 individuals in a country

Question 8

Life expectancy

Answer 8

The average number of years that an infant born in a particular year in a particular country can be expected to live, given the current average life span and death rate in that country

Question 9

Infant mortality

Answer 9

The number of deaths per children under 1 per 1,000 live births

Question 10

Child mortality

Answer 10

The number of deaths per children under 5 per 1,000 live births

Question 11

Environmental Justice

Answer 11

The study of the disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards experienced by the people of color, recent immigrations and people of lower socio-economic backgrounds; and is both an academic field and a social movement