Chapter 2 Vocab Flashcards
The ratio the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitabel for agriculture
Agricultural Density
The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirelt on hunting and gathering
Agricultural Revolution
The total number of people divided by the total land area
Aritmetic Density
A complete enumeration of a population
Census
The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society
Crude Birth Rate
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society
Crude Death Rate
The process of change in a society’s population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population
Demographic Transition Model
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
The number of years needed to double a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase
Doubling Time
(Agrictultural Density) China, Japan, Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan
East Asia
The portion of Eath’s surface occupied by a permanent human settlelemt
Ecumene
Distinctice causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition
Epidemiologic Transition
Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that are prevalent among a population at a special time and are produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality
Epidemlolgy
(Agricultural Density) Largely concentrated in urban areas
Europe
A series of improvements in industrial technology, that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
Industrial Revolution
The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 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 births is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live
Life Expectancy
Medical teachnolody invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enables more people to live longer and healthier lives
Medical Revolution
The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate (CBR-CDR)
Natural Increase Rate
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
Overpopulation
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
Total Fertility Rate
A decilne of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero
Zero Population Growth
Land near north and south poles, perpetually covered with ice or the ground is permanently frozen(permafrost) polar regions are unsuitable for planting crops few animals and humans survive/live there
Cold lands
(Agricultural density) china, japan, Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan
East Asia
(Agricultural density) largely concentrated in urban areas
Europe
High elevations ex. People in Mexico City
Highlands
Argue that 2 characteristics of recent pop. Growth make Malthus’s thesis more frightening than when it was 1st written more than 200 years ago
Neo-Malthusian
One of the 1st to argue that the world’ state of pop. Increase was far outrunning in the development of food supply increased arithmetically
Thomas Malthus
Lands that receive very high levels of precipitation (May also be inhospitable for human occupation)
Wet lands
What is the demographic transition model?
Stage 1: low growth
stage 2: high growth
Stage 3: moderate growth
Stage 4: low growth
Process with several stages and every country is in one of them. Has a beginning, middle and end
Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high portion of the population
Pandemic
The number of males per 100 females in the population
Sex ratio
