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Chapter Two - Population Flashcards

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what is crude death rate ? (CDR)

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the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society

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what is crude birth rate ? (CBR)

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the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society

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what is cohort ?

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a group of people that characteristics them as a group ; age, sex, race.

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what is dependency ratio ?

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the number of people too old and too young to work compared to the number of people that are in their productive years.

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what is demographic transition ?

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the process of change in a society’s population from high crude birth and crude death rates and low natural increase rate to a condition of low crude birth and crude death and a low natural increase rate resulting in higher population.

HIGHbirth+HIGHdeath+LOWnat.inc. ->
LOWbirth+LOWdeatg+LOWnat.inc. =
higher total population

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what is doubling time ?

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the number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.

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what is ecumane ?

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the portion of earth surface occupied by permanent human settlement.

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who is Thomas Malthus ?

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an english geographer/economist that theorized that there were too much people and not enought food to sustain everyone.

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what is sex ratio ?

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the number of males per 100 females.

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what are the four major population clusters ?

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East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

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what are four sparsely populated regions ?

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dry land, wet land, cold land, high land.

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what is non-ecumane ?

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the portion of earths surface not occupied by permanent human settlement.

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what is arable land ?

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land suited for farming.

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what are the three ways density can be calculated ?

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arithmetic density, physiological density, and agricultural density.

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what is density ?

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the number of people occupying an areas of land.

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what is arithmetic density ?

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the total number of people divided by the total land area.

people/land area

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what is physiological density ?

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the number if people divided by a unit area of arable land.

people/arable land

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what is agricultural density ?

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the ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land.

farmers/arable land

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what is natural increase rate ? (NIC)

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the percentage by which a population grows in a year.

%ofCBR-%ofCDR

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what is total fertility rate ? (TFR)

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the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years. (15-49)

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what is a population pyramid ?

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a populations pyramid normally shows the percentage of the total population in three layers, with the youngest group (0-14) at the base of the pyramid and the oldest group at the top. males are usually on the left side and females on the right.

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what is infant mortality rate ?

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the annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births ; the number of deaths of infants per 1,000 births.

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what is census ?

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the process of getting and recording information about a certain group or population.

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what is demography ?

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the study of population characteristics.

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what is epidemiological transition ?

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distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.

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what is epidemiology ?

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the branch of medical science concerned with the incident, distribution, and control of diseases that are prevalent among a population at a special time and are produced by some special cause ; think of epidemic.

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what is industrial revolution ?

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a series of improvements in technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

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what is life expectancy ?

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the average number of years that an individual is expected to live up to.

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what is medical revolution ?

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medical technology invented in Europe and Northern America that has diffused to the poor countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives.

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what is overpopulation ?

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a disruption in which the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

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what is pandemic ?

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a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.

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what is zero population growth ? (ZPG)

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a decline in the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.

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