Unit 2

Question 0

A situation in which the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living

Answer 0

Overpopulation

Question 1

The scientific study of population characteristics

Answer 1

Demography

Question 2

The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement

Answer 2

Ecumene

Question 3

A complete enumeration of a population

Answer 3

Census

Question 4

Patterns of where people live

Answer 4

Population distribution

Question 5

The total number of people divided by the total land area

Answer 5

Arithmetic population density

Question 6

The number of people per unit of area of arable land which is land suitable for agriculture

Answer 6

Physiological population density

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Agricultural density

Question 8

Total number of live births in a year for every one thousand people alive in society

Answer 8

Crude birth rate CBR

Question 9

Total number of deaths in a year for every thousand people alive in society

Answer 9

Crude death rate CDR

Question 10

Percent of growth of a population in a year, crude birth rate equals death rate

Answer 10

Natural increase rate NIR

Question 11

Number of years needed to double a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase

Answer 11

Doubling time

Question 12

Average number of years an individual can be expected to live

Answer 12

Life expectancy

Question 13

A bar graph that represents distribution of population by age and sex

Answer 13

Population pyramid

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Dependency ratio

Question 15

Number of males per 100 females in the population

Answer 15

Sex ratio

Question 16

Process of change in a societies population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of little crude birth rate and death values low rate of natural increase and higher total population

Answer 16

Demographic transition model

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Agricultural revolution

Question 18

A series of improvements in industrial technology that transform the process of manufacturing goods

Answer 18

Industrial Revolution

Question 19

Improved medical technology and practices

Answer 19

Medical revolution

Question 20

Decline of the total fertility rate the point where the natural increase rate equals zero

Answer 20

Zero population growth

Question 21

Grows by same amount in each time step

Answer 21

Linear growth

Question 22

Rate becomes more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size

Answer 22

Exponential growth

Question 23

Advocate for population control programs to ensure resources for current and future population

Answer 23

Neo-Malthusians

Question 24

Controlling number of children and intervals between birth

Answer 24

Family-planning

Question 25

Distinctive causes of death in each stage of demographic transition

Answer 25

Epidemiologic transition