Population

Question 0

Why is scale important to population?

Answer 0

It is important due to all kinds of variation from region to region.

Question 1

Demography

Answer 1

Study of Populatin

Question 2

Population Density

Answer 2

A measure of total population relative to the land size. Assuming there is even distribution.

Question 3

Arithmetic Pop. Density and an Example

Answer 3

People per square mile. Egypt is misleading due to crowding around Nile River Valley.

Question 4

Physiological Population Density

Answer 4

People per unit area of arable land.

Question 5

Population Distributions

Answer 5

Descriptions of locations on Earth’s surface where individuals or groups live.

Question 6

Dot Maps

Answer 6

Maps which represent population distribution where one dot represents a certain number of people.

Question 7

Name the 3 major clusters of population

Answer 7

East Asia, South Asia, and Europe.

Question 8

Census

Answer 8

Counting of people in a country.

Question 9

Malthusian Theory

Answer 9

Food growth is linear, but population growth is exponential.

Question 10

What did T. Malthus overlook?

Answer 10

Food grows exponentially, his model was based on England, globalization, mercantilism, colonization, and agricultural revolutions.

Question 11

Factors of calculation population growth.

Answer 11

Immigration, emigration, birth, and death.

Question 12

National Increase Rate

Answer 12

Births-Deaths= NIR

Question 13

Immigration

Answer 13

The importation of people to a country.

Question 14

Emigration

Answer 14

The exportation of people from a country.

Question 15

Total Fertility Rates

Answer 15

Number of children per child-bearing women.

Question 16

Aging Index

Answer 16

The number of old people to young people.

Question 17

Why is the international TFR decreasing?

Answer 17

Women choosing to have children later.

Question 18

Doubling Time

Answer 18

How long it will take for the population to double.

Question 19

Population Explosion

Answer 19

Rapid increase of births in a short period of time.

Question 20

Zero Population Growth

Answer 20

Population is neither increasing, nor decreasing.

Question 21

“Guns for Sterilization” Policy

Answer 21

When India tried to control population, they offered fun licenses to men who got sterilized after having 3 children.

Question 22

Crude Birth Rate

Answer 22

The number of live births per thousand people.

Question 23

Crude Death Rate

Answer 23

Number of deaths per thousand people.

Question 24

Demographic Transition

Answer 24

Shifting population

Question 25

Low-Growth Rates

Answer 25

High birth and high death rates.

Question 26

Stationary Population Level

Answer 26

Population stops growing and stabilizes.

Question 27

Population Compisition

Answer 27

Structure of a population in terms of sex and age.

Question 28

Infant Mortality Rate

Answer 28

The number of infants who die in their first year of life.

Question 29

Child Mortality Rate

Answer 29

Children who die between 1-5 years old.

Question 30

Marasmus

Answer 30

inadequate protein and insufficient caloric intake

Question 31

Life Expectancy

Answer 31

The number of years on average a person is expected to live.

Question 32

Infectious Diseases

Answer 32

Invasion of parasites and their multiplication in the body.

Question 33

Chronic Diseases

Answer 33

Diseases caused by old age.

Question 34

Vectored

Answer 34

Disease spread by a intermediary.

Question 35

Non-Vectored

Answer 35

Transmitted by direct contact.

Question 36

Metabolic Disease

Answer 36

Bodies inability to process all elements of the diet.

Question 37

Expansive Policy

Answer 37

Encourages large families

Question 38

Eugenic Policy

Answer 38

One racial or cultural sector dominates

Question 39

Restrictive Policy

Answer 39

Prevent large families.