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Unit 2 vocab: Population Flashcards

1
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Compares the number of farmers to the area of arable land.

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Agricultural population density

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Calculated by dividing the population by the amount of arable land.

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Physiological population density

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3
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Calculated by dividing a region’s population by its total area.

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Arithmetic population density

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4
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Land suitable for growing crops (farmable land).

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Arable

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5
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The pattern of human settlement- the spread of people across the earth. Representing it on a map highlights places that are crowded, sparsely settled, or even empty.

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Population distribution

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Measures of average population per square mile or kilometer. Measures how crowded a place is.

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Population density

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Hierarchical division of people into groups based on factors such as economic status power and or ethnicity.

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Social stratification

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Having more people than a region can support.

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Overpopulation

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The number of people a region can support without damaging the environment.

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Carrying capacity

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10
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A most useful tool to study population (age-sex composition is called.

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Population pyramid

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11
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The vertical axis shows age groups known as.

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Cohorts

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12
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The slowdown of births.

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Birth deficit

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13
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Once hostility ends and peace resumes, the birth rate often spikes, causing what is known as.

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baby boom.

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Once the boom ends, birth rates are lower for a number of years,

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baby bust. This baby bust continues until the boomers reach childbearing age.

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15
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Since this increase reflects an earlier baby boom, it is called an-

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echo

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16
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The group is expected to be the society’s labor force.

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Potential workforce

17
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People under 15 or over 64 because they are too young or too old to work full time.

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Dependent population

18
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The comparison between the size of the two groups

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Dependency ratio

19
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Used to describe the future population of a region of any scale.

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Demographic balancing equation

20
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The number of live births per year for every 1,000 people.

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Crude birth rate

21
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The number of children who would be born per woman in that group in a country, assuming every woman lived through her childbearing years.

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Total fertility rate

22
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The average number of years people live

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Life expectancy

23
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The number of children who die before their first birthday.

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Infant mortality rate

24
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Number of deaths per year for every 1,000

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Crude death rate

25
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The percentage at which a country’s population is growing or declining without the impact of migration.

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RNI- rate of natural increase

26
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Population growing exponentially and can be estimated using Rule of 70

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Population double time

27
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Shows five typical stages of population change that countries experience as they modernize.

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Demographic transition model

28
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As countries transition from early Stage 3 into Stage 4, population will continue to grow for at least one generation

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Demographic momentum

29
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Omran’s work identifies predictable stages in disease and life expectancy that countries experience as they develop.

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Epidemiological transition model

30
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Suggest that the more people there are, the more hands there are to work, rather than just more mouths to feed.

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Boserup Theory

31
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People that accept Malthu’s fundamental premise as correct today.

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Neo-Malthusians

32
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These policies attempt to decrease the number of births in a country.

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Anti natalist policies

33
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Programs designed to increase fertility rate.

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Pronatalist policies

34
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Average number of children who would be born per woman of that group in a country.

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Total fertility rate (TFR)

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