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Population And Migration Flashcards

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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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The total number 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 1000 people alive in the society

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Crude death rate (CDR)

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The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the 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 CBR and CDR

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Dependency ratio

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The number of people under the age of 15 and over 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force

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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 if death in each stage if the demographic transition

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Epidemiology

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Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, ad control of diseases that are prevalent among a population at a special time

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Industrial revolution

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A series of improvement in industrial technology that transformed the process if manufacturing goods

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Infant mortality rate (IMR)

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The total number if deaths I. A year among infants under 1 year old for every 1000 live births in a society

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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

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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

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Natural increase rate (NIR)

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Percentage growth of a population in a year

CBR-CDR

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Overpopulation

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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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Pandemic

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

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Physiological density

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The number 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 bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex

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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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The average number if children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years

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Zero population growth

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A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero

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Cold lands

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Land near the North and South poles is perpetually covered with ice or the ground is permanently frozen (permafrost)

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Dry lands

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Areas too dry for farming cover approximately 20% of earth’ slabs surface

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East Asia

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Bordering the Pacific Ocean, includes eastern china, the islands of japan, Korea, and Taiwan: 1/4 people live here

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Europe

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3rd largest population cluster, 1/9 of world’s people: includes 4 dozen countries

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High lands

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Few people live. Highest mountains in the world are steep, snow covered, and sparsely settled

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Southeast Asia

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3rd important Asian population and world’s 4th largest. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines

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South Asia

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1/4 of the world’s largest people. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the island of Sri Lanka

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Wet lands

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Receive very high levels of precipitation and may also be inhospitable for human occupation

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