Chapter 2 Flashcards
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
Agricultural density
The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
Agricultural revolution
Immune system disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus which overtime weakens the capacity of the immune system to fight off infection
Aids
The total number of people divided by the total land area
Arithmetic density
A complete enumeration of a population
Census
I figure that describes the number of children that died between ages one and five in a given population
Child mortality rate
Generally long lasting afflictions now more common because of higher life expectancy’s
Chronic diseases
The total number of live births in a year for everyone thousand people alive in society
Crude Birth Rate
The total number of deaths in a year for everyone thousand people alive in the society
Crude death rate
The process of change in a societies population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth rates and death rates, low rate of natural increase and higher total population
Demographic transition
The scientific study of a populations characteristics
Demography
The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force
Dependency ratio
Maps where one dots represent a certain number of people
Dot map
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
Doubling time
The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement
Ecumene
Government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others
Eugenic population policies
A series of improvements in industrial technology that transform to the process of manufacturing goods
Industrial revolution
The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Infant mortality rate
The average number of years and 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
Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is defused to the poor countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa.improved medical practices have illuminated many of the traditional causes of death in poor countries enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives
Medical revolution
Large supercities there are forming and diverse parts of the world
Megalopolis
The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate
Natural increase rate
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at the decent standard of living
Overpopulation
The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is the landscaper for agricultural
Physiological density
Structure of a population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education
Population composition
A measure of total population relative to land size
Population density
Descriptions of the locations on the earths surface where individuals or groups live
Population distribution
The rapid growth of the world human population during the past entry, attended by ever shorter doubling times and accelerated rate of increase
Population explosion
A bargraph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Population pyramid
Government policies designed to reduce the rate of natural increase
Restrictive population policies
The number of meals per 100 females in the population
Sex ratio
The level at which a population seizes to grow
Stationary population level
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
Total fertility rate
A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero
Zero population growth
