Chapter 2: Population Flashcards
The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can sustainably support
Carrying capacity
The number of people living in a given unit area
Arithmetic density
An official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals
Census
Small country subdivisions, usually containing between 2500 and 8000 persons, delineated by the US Census Bureau as area of relativity uniform population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions
Census tract
Number of deaths per thousand children within the first five years of life
Child mortality rate
A population group unified by a specific common characteristics, such as age, and subsequently treated as a statistical unit
Cohort
The number of live births per year 1000 people
Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
The number of deaths per year 1000 people
Crude Death Rate (CDR)
Statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it
Demographics
The ratio of the number of people who are either too old or young to provide for themselves to the number of people who must support them through their own labor. This is usually expressed in the form
n:100, where n equals the number of dependents
Dependency ratio
The notion that resources flow from a periphery of poor and underdeveloped states to a core of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former
Dependency theory
Time period required for a population experiencing exponential growth to double in size completely
Doubling time
The term used by geographers to mean inhabited land
Refers it land where people have made their permanent home and to all work areas that are considered occupied and used for agricultural or any other economic purpose
Ecumene
The percentage of children who die before their first birthday within a particular area or country
Infant mortality rate
The average age individuals are expected to live, which varies across space, between genders, and even between races
Life expectancy
A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex
Megalopolis
The state of being subjected to death
Mortality
The difference between the number of births and number of deaths within a particular country
Natural Increase Rate (NIR)
Advocacy of population control programs to ensure enough resources for current and future populations
Neo-Malthusian
A ratio of human population to the area do cropland, used in less developed countries dominated by subsistence agriculture
Physiologic density
A measurement of the number of persons per unit land area
Population density
The pattern of where people live
Population distributions
A model used in population geography to show the age and sex distribution of a particular population
Population pyramid
The crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population
Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)
The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
Proposal to end population growth through a variety of official and nongovernmental family planning programs
Zero population growth
