AMSCO Vocab Chapter 4

Question 1

total fertility rate

Answer 1

Average number of children who would be born per woman

Question 2

anti-natalist policies

Answer 2

Programs to decrease the number of births

Question 3

pro-natalist policies

Answer 3

Programs to increase the number of births

Question 4

demographic Transition Model

Answer 4

Shows five typical stages of population change that countries pass through as they modernize

Question 5

expansive population pyramid

Answer 5

One with a high birth rate and low life expectancy

Question 6

stationary population pyramid

Answer 6

Shows a population that is not significantly growing or shrinking

Question 7

rate of natural increase

Answer 7

The percentage at which a country’s population is growing or declining , without the impact of migration

Question 8

demographic Balancing Equation

Answer 8

Total Population Change = Births - Deaths + Immigrants - Emigrants

Question 9

epidemiological Transition Model

Answer 9

Identifies predictable stages of diseases and life expectancy that countries experience as they develop; corresponds with the stages of the DTM

Question 10

Malthusian theory

Answer 10

The theory of growing population and arithmetic food supply growth

Question 11

neo-Malthusian’s

Answer 11

People today who have adapted his basic ideas to modern conditions