Unit 2 Chapter 4 Vocab Flashcards

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Antinatalist

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Describing attitudes or policies that discourage childbearing as a means of limiting population growth

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Demographic Transition Model (DTM):

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A model that represents shifts in the growth of the world’s population, based on population Trends related to birth rate and death rate

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doubling time

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the number of years in which a population growing at a certain rate would double

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Epidemiological Transition Model (ETM)

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a model that describes changes in fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and population age distribution, largely as the result of changes in causes of death

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4
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land degradation

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Long-term damage to the soil’s ability to support life

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Neo-Malthusian

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describing the theory related to the idea that population growth is unsustainable and that the future population cannot be supported by Earth’s resources

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overpopulation

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a term used to describe the condition in which population growth outstrips the resources needed to support life

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Pronatalist

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describing attitudes or policies that encourage childbearing as a means of spurring population growth

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rate on natural increase (RNI)

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right at which a population grows as the result of the difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate

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