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| 5042928571 | Population Clusters | South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe | 0 | |
| 5042928572 | Sparsely Populated Regions | Lands that are too wet, too dry, too cold, too mountainous. | 1 | |
| 5042928573 | Ecumene | The portion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. | 2 | |
| 5042928574 | Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. | 3 | |
| 5042928575 | Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land. | 4 | |
| 5042928576 | Agricultural Density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. | 5 | |
| 5042928577 | Carrying Capacity | The amount of people that an area can support. | 6 | |
| 5042928578 | Cohort | A population group unified by a specific common characteristic, such as age, and subsequently treated as a statistical unit. | 7 | |
| 5042928579 | Cartogram | A type of thematic maps that transforms space such that the political unit with the greatest value for some type of data is represented by the largest relative area | 8 | |
| 5042928580 | Overpopulation | A value judgement based on the notion that the resources of a particular area are not great enough to support that area's current population. | 9 | |
| 5042928581 | Census | A periodic and official count of a country's population. | 10 | |
| 5042928582 | Crude Birth Rate | The total number of live births per 1,000 people per year. | 11 | |
| 5042928583 | Crude Death Rate | The total number of deaths per 1,000 people per year. | 12 | |
| 5042928584 | Natural Increase Rate | CBR - CDR | 13 | |
| 5042928585 | Doubling Time | The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase. | 14 | |
| 5042928586 | Total Fertility Rate | The number of children the average woman will bear during her lifetime. This is an average. | 15 | |
| 5042928587 | Infant Mortality Rate | The annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births. | 16 | |
| 5042928588 | Life Expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live. | 17 | |
| 5042928589 | Population Pyramids | Visual representations of the age and sex composition of a population whereby the percentage of each age group is represented by a horizontal bar the length of which represents its relationship to the total population. | 18 | |
| 5042928590 | Dependency Ratio | The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force. | 19 | |
| 5042928591 | Sex Ratio | The ratio of men to women. | 20 | |
| 5042928592 | Demographic Transition Model | A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time. | 21 | |
| 5042928593 | Health/Medical Revolution | 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. Allowed for the 2nd stage of demographic transition to occur in these areas around 1950. | 22 | |
| 5042928594 | Contraceptive | Contraception birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery | 23 | |
| 5042928595 | Family Planning Programs | Contraception birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery | 24 | |
| 5042928596 | Malthus Theory | Population grows geometrically while food grows arithmetically. Which will lead to a disaster | 25 | |
| 5042928597 | Sterilization | The removal of all microorganisms and other pathogens from an object or surface by treating it with chemicals or subjecting it to high heat or radiation. | 26 | |
| 5042928598 | One Child Policy | Act in China that allows people to have only 1 child in the city and 2 children (if the first child is a girl or ethnic minority) in the countryside. Created in 1980. | 27 | |
| 5042928599 | Gendercide | The systematic killing of members of a specific sex. | 28 | |
| 5042928600 | Demography | The scientific study of population characteristics. | 29 | |
| 5042928601 | Zero Population Growth | A decline of the total fertility rate to the point (around 2.1) where the natural increase rate equals zero over the long term. | 30 | |
| 5042928602 | Demographic Momentum | The tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution. | 31 | |
| 5042928603 | Anti-natalist Population Policy | The aim of anti-natalist policies is to decrease the total fertility rate, as well as the crude birth rate, in order to slow the population growth | 32 | |
| 5042928604 | Pro-natalist Population Policy | A belief that promotes human reproduction. | 33 | |
| 5042928605 | Cornucopian Theory | Earth has an abundance of resources; can never be used up. | 34 | |
| 5042928606 | J Curve | The shape of a line graph of population graph when growth is exponential. | 35 | |
| 5042928607 | S Curve | S-curve traces the cyclical movement upwards and downwards in a graph. So named for its shape as the letter "s". | 36 | |
| 5042928608 | Neo Malthusians | Contemporary researchers who worry about the rapid pace of population growth. | 37 |
