Ch. 4

Question 1

Demographic Transition:

Answer 1

shift from high fertility and high mortality to low fertility and low mortality in a society, usually takes about 100 years

Question 2

Demography:

Answer 2

size, composition, and distribution of the population of Canada and throughout the world

Question 3

Population Implosion:

Answer 3

population of most countries became concentrated in a relatively small area, primarily when young adults migrated to cities in search of work/urban lifestyles

Question 4

Population displosion:

Answer 4

third phase, began when the population of a specific geographic area became increasingly heterogenous owing to in-or-out migration and immigration patterns

Question 5

Epidemiological Transition:

Answer 5

improvements in food distribution, nutrition, water quality, hygiene etc.

Question 6

Alarmist/apocalyptic interpretations of demographics

Answer 6

argue that older people are becoming a burden to society

Question 7

Active Life Expectancy:

Answer 7

assesses the quality of life more than the quantity of life

Question 8

Median Age:

Answer 8

chronological age at which the population divides into equal numbers of younger and older people

Question 9

Crude Birth Rates and death rates

Answer 9

Crude Birth Rates: records the number of births per 1000 people during a one year period
Crude Death Rates: number of deaths per 1000 people during a one year period

Question 10

Sex Ratio:

Answer 10

number of males per 100 females; ratio of 1 is an equal number, less than 1 indicates that there are fewer males

Question 11

Dependency Ratios:

Answer 11

ability of a society to support itself financially

Question 11

Total Dependency Ratio:

Answer 11

constructed by dividing number of people not eligible to join workforce by those eligible to be in labor force