Ch.2 Flashcards
Maximum # of people a region can reasonably sustain
Carrying capacity
Restrictive population policy that discourages people from having babies
Antinatalist
Group of people usually classified by age
Cohort
of deaths of children under 1 year of age per 1,000 births over a year
Infant Mortality Rate
of years it will take for a population to double in size
Doubling Time
Study of population characteristics, transitions, and projections
Demography
Portion of the earth’s surface that is inhabitable for humans
Ecumene
Compounded growth
Exponential
Contemporary believers in Thomas Malthus’s original ideas
Neo-Malthusians
Disease spread over a large area or worldwide
Pandemic
Period in stage 2 of the demographic transition model when lifesaving medical technology drastically reduces the CDR
Medical Revolution
Natural growth rate of a population, CBR minus CDR
Natural Increase Rate
Expansive population policy that encourages more live births in a population
Pronatalist
Began in England around 1700s
Industrial Revolution
of live births per 1000 people over a year
CBR
of deaths per 1000 people over a year
CDR
Disease spread acutely over a localized area
Epidemic
of people unable to work compared to # of workers in a society
Dependency Ratio
Region exceeds it’s carrying capacity
Over Population
A graph that shows the distributions of ages and genders in a particular year
Population Pyramid
of males compared to 100 females in a population
Sex-Ratio
English theorist
Thomas Malthus
Occurs when birth rates equal death rates
0 Population Growth
of children predicted to be born to a woman as she passes through the fecund years
Total Fertility Rate
Small country subdivisions
Census Tract
Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition
Epidemiologic Transition
Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease
Epidemiology
Process of change in a society’s population from condition of high CBR and CDR and low RNI to low CBR and CDR, low RNI and a higher total population
Demographic Transition
