Demography and Population

Question 1

Three components of demography and Population

Answer 1

• Fertility
• Mortality
• Migration

Question 2

7 billionth baby

Answer 2

Danica May Camacho
October 31, 2011

Question 3

demos meaning

Answer 3

people or population

Question 4

graphy meaning

Answer 4

draw or write

Question 5

Study of population

Answer 5

Demography

Question 6

The whole number of inhabitants occupying an area
(such as a country or the world) and continually being
modified by increases (births and immigrations) and
losses (deaths and emigrations). (Teitelbaum, 2021)

Answer 6

Population

Question 7

refers to the
number of children a woman has actually born

Answer 7

Fertility

Question 8

Sociologists measure fertility using

Answer 8

crude birth rate

Question 9

the quality or state of being mortal

Answer 9

Mortality

Question 10

is a measure of the
number of people who die.

Answer 10

Mortality rate

Question 11

is the movement of people
into and out of an area.

Answer 11

Migration

Question 12

s the movement of
people into an area.

Answer 12

Immigration

Question 13

is the movement of people out
of an area.

Answer 13

Emigration

Question 14

the number of men for every hundred women

Answer 14

Sex ratio

Question 15

a picture of population distribution by sex and age

Answer 15

Population pyramid

Question 16

change in population size over time that takes into account
the number of births and deaths as well as immigration and emigration

Answer 16

Population Growth

Question 17

is the percentage change in the size of the
population in a year.

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Population growth rate/change

Question 18

is a pattern of data that shows greater increases with
passing time, creating the curve of an exponential function.

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Exponential growth

Question 19

average number of years that an infant born in a particular
year in a particular country can be expected to live, given the current average
life span and death rate in that country.

Answer 19

Life expectancy

Question 20

Demographic theories

Answer 20

-Malthus theory
- Zero population growth
-Cornucopian theory
- Demographic transition theory

Question 21

was an English clergyman who made dire
predictions about earth’ s ability to sustain its growing population.

Answer 21

Thomas Malthus

Question 22

3 factors that control human population

Answer 22

War
Feminine
Disease

Question 23

three factors would control human
population that exceeded the earth’ s carrying capacity, or how many
people can live in a given area considering the amount of available
resources. Malthus identified these factors aswar, famine, and disease.

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Malthusian Theory

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Neo-malthusian researcher brought Malthus prediction to 20th

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Paul Ehrlich

Question 25

in which the
number of people entering a population through birth or immigration is
equal to the number of people leaving it via death or emigration. While
supportforthis concept ismixed, it is still considered apossible solution to global overpopulation

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Zero population growth

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scoffs at the idea of
humans wiping themselves out; it asserts that
human ingenuity can resolve any
environmental or social issues that develop.

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Cornucopian theory

Question 27

suggests that future population
growth will develop along a predictable
four-stage model.

Answer 27

Demographic transition theory