Unit 2 Chapter 4 Vocab Flashcards
Antinatalist
Describing attitudes or policies that discourage childbearing as a means of limiting population growth
Demographic Transition Model (DTM):
A model that represents shifts in the growth of the world’s population, based on population Trends related to birth rate and death rate
doubling time
the number of years in which a population growing at a certain rate would double
Epidemiological Transition Model (ETM)
a model that describes changes in fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and population age distribution, largely as the result of changes in causes of death
land degradation
Long-term damage to the soil’s ability to support life
Neo-Malthusian
describing the theory related to the idea that population growth is unsustainable and that the future population cannot be supported by Earth’s resources
overpopulation
a term used to describe the condition in which population growth outstrips the resources needed to support life
Pronatalist
describing attitudes or policies that encourage childbearing as a means of spurring population growth
rate on natural increase (RNI)
right at which a population grows as the result of the difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate
