Chapter 2 Flashcards
Agricultural density
The ratio of number of farmers to the total amount of arable land
government policy that supports lower birthrates
Anti-Natalist Policy
Land suitable for agriculture
Arable land
The total number of people divided by the total land area
Arithmetic density
The population size of a species that the environment can sustain in definitely given the resources
Carrying capacity
A complete enumeration of the population
Census
The total number of live births in a year for everyone thousand people live in the society
Crude birth rate
The total number of deaths in every year for everyone thousand people live in society
Crude death rate
The process of changing a societies population from a condition of high crude birth rate and death rate and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth rate and death rate Laredo of natural increase and high population
Demographic transition
The scientific study of population characteristics
Demographics
The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force
Dependency ratio
The number of years needed to AA population assuming a constant rate of natural increase
Doubling time
The portion of earth service occupied by permanent human settlement
Ecumene
Widespread occurrence of a infectious disease in a community at a particular time
Epidemic
The process of changing distinctive causes of death in each stage Stage of the demographic transition model
Epidemiologic transition
The branch of medical science concerned with the incidence distribution and control of diseases that are prevalent among the population of a special time and are produced by some special cars is not generally present in the effected locality
Epidemiology
Hey series of improvements in an industrial technology transformed the process of manufacturing goods
Industrial revolution
Eternal number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for everyone thousand live births in a society
Infant mortality rate
The average number of years an individual Can be expected to live given current social economic and medical conditions life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live
Life expectancy
The annual number a female deaths per hundred thousand live births from any cars related or aggravated by pregnancy or it’s management
Maternal mortality rate
Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that has the fuse to the poor countries in Latin America Asia and Africa improve medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional cause of death in poor countries and enable my people to live longer and healthier lives
Medical revolution
The percentage of growth of a population in a year computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate
Natural increase rate
Situation in which the capacity of people in an area to see the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
Overpopulation
An Epidemic that occurs over a wide geographic area and effects a very high proportion of the population at the same time
Pandemic
The number of people per unit area of arable land which is Lance suitable for agriculture
Physiological density
A bar graph that represents the distribution of population By age and sex
Population pyramid
The number of working age people divided by the number of persons 65 and older
Potential support ratio
Government policy that supports her birth rates
Pronatalist policy
The number of males per 100 females in the population
Sex ratio
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
Total fertility rate
I decline of the total fertility rate to a point where the natural increase rate equals zero
Zero population growth
