Unit 2 Vocab Key Issues 1-4

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Agricultural Density

Question 2

The total number of people
divided by the total land area.

Answer 2

Arithmetic Density

Question 3

A complete enumeration of a
population.

Answer 3

Census

Question 4

The portion of Earth’s surface
occupied by permanent human
settlement.

Answer 4

Ecumene

Question 5

The number of people in an area
exceeds the capacity of the
environment to support life at a
decent standard of living.

Answer 5

Overpopulation

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Physiological Density

Question 7

The total number of live births in
a year for every 1,000 people
alive in the society.

Answer 7

Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

Question 8

The total number of deaths in a
year for every 1,000 people alive
in the society.

Answer 8

Crude Death Rate (CDR)

Question 9

The process of change in a society’s
population from a condition of high
crude birth and death rates and low
rate of natural increase to a
condition of low crude birth and
death rates, low rate of natural
increase, and a higher total
population.

Answer 9

Demographic Transition

Question 10

The scientific study of
population characteristics.

Answer 10

Demography

Question 11

The number of years needed to
double a population, assuming a
constant rate of natural increase

Answer 11

Doubling Time

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Industrial Revolution

Question 13

The average number of years an
individual can be expected to live,
given current social, economic, and
medical conditions. Life expectancy
at birth is the average number of
years a newborn infant can expect to
live.

Answer 13

Life Expectancy

Question 14

Medical technology invented in
Europe and North America that is
diffused to the poorer countries of
Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
Improved medical practices have
eliminated many of the traditional
causes of death in poorer countries
and enabled more people to live
longer and healthier lives.

Answer 14

Medical Revolution

Question 15

The percentage growth of a
population in a year, computed as
the crude birth rate minus the crude
death rate.

Answer 15

Natural Increase Rate (NIR)

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Zero Population Growth
(ZPG)

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Dependency Ratio

Question 19

The number of working-age people
(ages 15-64) divided by the number
of persons 65 and older.

Answer 19

Elderly Support Ratio

Question 20

Distinctive causes of death in each
stage of the demographic transition

Answer 20

Epidemiologic Transition

Question 21

Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that are prevalent among a population at a special time and are produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality

Answer 21

Epidemiology

Question 22

The total number of deaths in a year
among infants under 1 year old for
every 1,000 live births in a society

Answer 22

Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)

Question 23

The annual number of female deaths per 100,000 live births from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes)

Answer 23

Maternal Mortality Rate

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Pandemic

Question 25

A bar graph representing the
distribution of population by age and sex.

Answer 25

Population Pyramid

Question 26

The number of males per 100
females in the population

Answer 26

Sex Ratio