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Question 1

What’s the definition of age distribution?

Answer 1

The proportionate amount of people distributed by their age.

Question 2

What’s the definition of arithmetic density?

Answer 2

The population measured by the amount of people per unit square of land.

Question 3

What’s the definition of baby boom?

Answer 3

A temporarily marked increase in the birth rate (especially during World War ll)

Question 4

What’s the definition of census tract?

Answer 4

Small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county.

Question 5

What’s the definition of carrying capacity?

Answer 5

The number of people an ecosystem can sustain.

Question 6

What’s the definition of Cohort?

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A group of people with a shared characteristic.

Question 7

What’s the definition of Contagious diffusion?

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Spread of something through people not relating to social class, economical things, or race, just the spread of it from one human to another.

Question 8

What’s the definition of crude birth rate?

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The number of live births per 1,000 midyear population.

Question 9

What’s the definition of crude death rate?

Answer 9

The number of deaths in a given period divided by the population exposed to risk of death in that period.

Question 10

What’s the definition of demographic equation?

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The equation which helps determine the change in population over a period of time.

Question 11

What’s the definition of demographic momentum?

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The tendency for growing populations to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution.

Question 12

What’s the definition of demographic regions?

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Shows how different parts of the world are in different stages of the demographic transition.

Question 13

What’s the definition of demographic transition model?

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A tool demographers use to categorize countries’ population growth rates and economic structures.

Question 14

What’s the definition of demography?

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The study of statistics such as births, deaths, incomes, etc. These illistrate the changing structure of human populations.

Question 15

What’s the definition of dependency ratio?

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The average number of economically dependent population per 100 economically productive population, for a given country, territory, or geographic area, at a specific point in time.

Question 16

What’s the definition of doubling time?

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The amount of time it takes for the population of a region to double.

Question 17

What’s the definition of ecumene?

Answer 17

Inhabited land.

Question 18

What’s the definition of epidemiological transition model?

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Changing patterns of population age distributions, mortality, fertility, life expectancy, and causes of death.

Question 19

What’s the definition of gendered space?

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Areas in which particular genders of people, and particular types of gender expression, are considered welcome or appropriate, and other types are unwelcome or inappropriate.

Question 20

What’s the definition of generation X?

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The generation born after that of the baby boomers (roughly from the early 1960s to late 1970s).

Question 21

What’s the definition of heirarchical diffusion?

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Spread of an idea from persons of authority or power to other persons.

Question 22

What’s the definition of infant mortality rate?

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The number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births.

Question 23

What is a j-curve?

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A trendline that shows an initial loss immediately followed by a dramatic gain.

Question 24

What’s the definition of life expectancy?

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The average period that a person may expect to live.

Question 25

What’s the definition of maladaptation?

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Poor or inadequate adaptation.

Question 26

Who is Malthus, Thomas?

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An 18th-century British philosopher and economist noted for the Malthusian growth model, an exponential formula used to project population growth.

Question 27

What’s the definition of maternal mortality rate?

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The number of women who die from pregnancy-related causes while pregnant or within 42 days of pregnancy termination per 100,000 live births.

Question 28

What’s the definition of mortality?

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The state of being subject to death.

Question 29

What’s the definition of natality?

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The ratio of the number of births to the size of the population; birth rate.

Question 30

What’s the definition of natural increase rate/ rate of natural?

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The difference between the number of live births and the number of deaths occurring in a year, divided by the mid-year population of that year, multiplied by a factor (usually 1,000).

Question 31

What’s the definition of increase?

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Become or make greater in size, amount, intensity, or degree.

Question 32

What are neo-mathusians?

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Fear that a large population size could lead to a humanitarian and ecological disaster.

Question 33

What’s the definition of physiologic density?

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The number of people per unit area of arable land.

Question 34

What’s the definition of population density?

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The number of population per unit of total land area of a country.

Question 35

What’s the definition of population distributions?

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The share of inhabitants by types of regions in a given country

Question 36

What’s the definition of population explosion?

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A sudden, large increase in the size of a population.

Question 37

What’s the definition of population projection?

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Gives a picture of what the future size and structure of the population by sex and age might look like

Question 38

What’s the definition of population pyramid?

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Represents the breakdown of the population by gender and age at a given point in time.

Question 39

What’s the definition of sex ratio?

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The proportion of males to females in a population as expressed by the number of males per hundred females.

Question 40

What’s the definition of the standard of living?

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The level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class or geographic area.

Question 41

What’s the definition of sustainability?

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t\The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level.

Question 42

What’s the definition of total fertility rate?

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An estimate of the average number of children born to each female in her childbearing years,

Question 43

What’s the definition of under-population?

Answer 43

Having a lower density of population than is normal or desirable.

Question 44

What’s the definition of zero population growth?

Answer 44

Occurs when birth and death rates are equal