Population

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Agricultural Revolution

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the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering

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Agricultural Density

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the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture

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Arithmetic Density

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total # of people divided by the total land area

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Census

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a complete enumeration of a population

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Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

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

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Crude Death Rate (CDR)

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

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Demographic Transition

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

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Demography

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the study of the characteristics of human populations such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics

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Dependency Ratio

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the percentage of a population unable to work (younger than 15 and Older than 64)

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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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Ecumene

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the portion of earth’s surface occupied by permanent human settlement

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Epidemiological Transition

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distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transitions

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Epidemiology

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The branch in medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people

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Industrial Revolution

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

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Infant Mortality Rat (IMR)

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the annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age, compared to the total number of live births

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Life Expectancy

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the average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is an average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live

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Medical Revolution

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medical technology 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 in and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives

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Natural Increase Rate (NIR)

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the percentage by which a population grows in a year. It is computed by subtracting CDR from CBR, after first converting the numbers from numbers per 1,000 to percentages ( numbers per 100 )

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Overpopulation

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the number of people in an era exceeding the capacity of the environment yo support life at a decent standard of living

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Pandemic

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Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affect a very high proportion of the population

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Physiological Density

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the # of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture

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Population Pyramid

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a graphical illustration of age distribution within a population. Along with gender difference in these age groups

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Sex Ratio

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The number of males per 100 females in the population

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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

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measure of the number of births in a society. The TFR is the average number of children a women will have throughout her childbearing years

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Zero Population Growth (ZPG)

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a condition of demographic balance in which the amount of people in a population neither decreases or increases

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Population Cartogram

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depicts the size of countries according to population rather than land area

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Malthus’ Theory

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He argued that the worlds rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food population

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Neo-Malthusians

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Adds two factors to Malthus’ Theory, population growth in LDC’s and outstripping in resources other than food