Chapter 2 Flashcards
Agricultural revolution
The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and has no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
Arithmetic density
The total number of people divide by the total land area
Census
A complete enumeration of a population
Crude birth rate
The total number of births within a year for every 1000 people
Crude death rate
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people
Demographic transition
The high and low rates of the change in societies population
Demography
The scientific study of population characteristics
Dependency ratio
The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 64 compared to the number of people in the labor force
Doubling time
The number of years needed to double a population
Ecumene
The portion of Earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement
Industrial revolution
A series of improvements in the industrial technology
Imr
The total number of deaths in a year among infants for every 1000 people
Life expectancy
The average number of years a person lives
Medical revolution
Medical technology that dispersed to less developed countries and that was invented to be better
NIR
The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the birth rate minus the death rate.
