Ch. 6 Vocab Flashcards
The limit to the number of children born.
Birth Control
A deliberate attempt to prevent pregnancy despite sexual intercourse.
Contraception
Researchers who study the size, density, age structure, and other characteristics of populations.
Demographers
A theoretical model of changes in populations due to increased industrialization.
Demographic Transition
The study of human populations.
Demography
The effort to plan the number and spacing of one’s children.
Family Planning
Birth rates fall, population growth is reduced.
Industrial Stage
Represents how human impact results from population x affluence x technology.
IPAT Model
The average number of years that an individual in a particular age group is likely to live.
Life Expectancy
British economist who believed that population growth would eventually outgrow food supply.
Malthus, Thomas
The goals set in 2000 by world leaders to increase the standard of living.
Millennium Development Goals
Change due to birth rates and death rates alone, excluding migration.
Natural Rate of Population Change
Birth rates and death rates remain low and populations stabilize or decline.
Post-industiral stage
Birth rates and death rates are high. Not much population growth.
Pre Industrial Stage
The total fertility rate that keeps the size of a population stable: For humans 2.1
Replacement Fertility
