Chapter 3 Vocab

Question 1

Define: Population density

Answer 1

The amount of people per sq. mile

Question 2

Define: carrying capacity

Answer 2

The population beyond which a given environment cannot provide support without becoming significantly damaged

Question 3

Define: birthrate

Answer 3

The number of births per year per thousand people

Question 4

Define: TFR

Answer 4

Total fertility rate; the average # of children born per women during her reproductive lifetime which is considered to be from 15 to 49 years of age

Question 5

Define: Zero population growth

Answer 5

Stabilized population; one that does not increase or decease

Question 6

Define: Death rates

Answer 6

The # of deaths per year per 1000 people

Question 7

Define: Demographic transition

Answer 7

All technologically advanced countries have low fertility rates and stabilized or declining populations

Question 8

Define: Eurocentric

Answer 8

Th demographic transition is a model that predicts trends in birthrates death rates and overall population levels in the abstract. Europe! (Patterns in Europe)

Question 9

Define: Population pyramids

Answer 9

A graphic device for comparing age characteristics

Question 10

Define: Sex ratio

Answer 10

The ratio between men and women in a population

Question 11

Define: gender roles

Answer 11

Culturally specific notions of what it means to be a man and what is means to be a women

Question 12

Define: IMR(Infant Mortality Rate)

Answer 12

A measure of how many children per 1000 die before reaching one year of age

Question 13

Define: HDI

Answer 13

Human Development Index; combines measures of literacy, life expectancy, education, and wealth.

Question 14

Define: HPI

Answer 14

Human Poverty Index; measures social and economic deprivation by examining the prevalence of factors such as low life expectancy, illiteracy, poverty, and unemployment

Question 15

Define: Refugees

Answer 15

People who leave their country because of persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality or political opinion

Question 16

Define: Push and pull factors

Answer 16

Something that pushes you away your home or pulls you toward your home

Question 17

Define: population explosion

Answer 17

A dramatic increase in world population since 1900

Question 18

Define: Malthusian Theory

Answer 18

The human ability to multiply far exceeds our ability to increase food production. (Famine, disease, and war)

Question 19

Define: the rule of 72

Answer 19

Country’s annual increase rate(%) and divide it into the # 72 which will equal the # of years it will take for the population to double

Question 20

Define: farm villages

Answer 20

Tightly bunched settlements varying in size from a few dozen inhabitants to several thousand

Question 21

Define: farmstead

Answer 21

The house, barn, sheds, pens, and garden

Question 22

Define: Ethnic cleansing

Answer 22

The removal of unwanted minorities in nation states(sections within a country)