These are the vocabulary words from Rubenstein's AP Human Geography textbook.
Chapter-1: Thinking Geographically
Chapter-2: Population
Chapter-3: Migration
Chapter-4: Folk and popular culture
Chapter-5: Language
Chapter-6: Religion
Chapter-7: Ethnicity
Chapter-8: Political Geography
Chapter-9: Development
Chapter-10: Agriculture
Chapter-11: Industry
Chapter-12: Services
Chapter-13: Urban Patterns
Chapter-14: Resource Issues
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| 1665007059 | Age distribution | The proportion of individuals of different ages within a population. You can use an age distribution to estimat survival by calculating the difference in proportion of individuals in succeeding age classes | 0 | |
| 1665007060 | Agricultural revolution | the development of farming | 1 | |
| 1665007061 | Arithmetic Population Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area | 2 | |
| 1665007062 | Capacity | the amount of people an area can support | 3 | |
| 1665007063 | Census | A complete enumeration of a population | 4 | |
| 1665007064 | Child Mortality Rate | A figure that describes the number of children that die between the first and fifth years of their lives in a given population | 5 | |
| 1665007065 | Chronic Diseases | Generally long - lasting afflictions now more common because of higher life expectancies (<== squiggly check spell!) | 6 | |
| 1665007066 | Crude Birth Rate (CBR) | The number of live births yearly per 1,000 people in a population. (natality) | 7 | |
| 1665007067 | Crude Death Rate (CDR) | The number of deaths yearly per 1,000 people in a population | 8 | |
| 1665007068 | Demographic equation | NIR = CBR - CDR | 9 | |
| 1665007069 | Demographic momentum | is the tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution. This is important because once this happens a country moves to a different stage in the demographic transition model | 10 | |
| 1665007070 | Demographic Transition | High birth rates and death rates are followed by plunging death rates, producing a huge net population gain, this is followed by the convergence of birth rates and death rates at a low overall level | 11 | |
| 1665007071 | Demographic Transition model: | the steps through which a society progresses | 12 | |
| 1665007072 | Demography | the scientific study of population characteristics | 13 | |
| 1665007073 | Dependency ratio | the number of people who can't work | 14 | |
| 1665007074 | Doubling Time | the time it takes for an area's population to double | 15 | |
| 1665007075 | Ecumene | the area of land occupied by humans | 16 | |
| 1665007076 | Epidemiological transition | The a distinctive cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition. Explains how countries' population changes | 17 | |
| 1665007077 | Eugenic Population Policies | Government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others | 18 | |
| 1665007078 | Expansive Popluation Policies | Government policies that encourage large families and raise the rate of population growth | 19 | |
| 1665007079 | Exponential growth | growth by a percentile instead of a static number | 20 | |
| 1665007080 | Infant Mortality Rate | The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society | 21 | |
| 1665007081 | J-curve | The shape of a line graph of population graph when growth is exponential | 22 | |
| 1665007082 | Life Expectancy | A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live | 23 | |
| 1665007083 | Malthus, Thomas (Thomas Malthus) | British economist of late 1700's. considered the first to predict a population crisis | 24 | |
| 1665007084 | Medical Revolution | the leap of medical knowledge in stage 2 of the demographic transition | 25 | |
| 1665007085 | Megalopolis | Term used to designate large coalescing supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world. | 26 | |
| 1665007086 | Mortality | the rate at which people die | 27 | |
| 1665007087 | Natality Rate (NIR) | number of birth/ year to every 1000 people in the population | 28 | |
| 1665007088 | Natural Increase | Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths; does not reflect either emigrant or immigrant movements | 29 | |
| 1665007089 | Natural Increase Rate (NIR) | Natural Increase Rate (NIR) | 30 | |
| 1665007090 | Neo-Malthusians | group who built on Malthus' theory and suggested that people wouldn't just starve for lack of food, but would have wars about food and other scarce resources | 31 | |
| 1665007091 | Overpopulation | too many people in one place for the resources available | 32 | |
| 1665007092 | Physiological Population Density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture | 33 | |
| 1665007093 | Population Composition | Structure of population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education | 34 | |
| 1665007094 | Population Density | A measurement of the number of people per given unit of land | 35 | |
| 1665007095 | Population Distribution | Description of locations on Earth's surface where populations live | 36 | |
| 1665007096 | Population Explosion | The rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century, attended by ever- shorter doubling times and sccelerating rates of increase. | 37 | |
| 1665007097 | Population Projection | Estimation of future population growth, by extrapolating current trends and known growth factors | 38 | |
| 1665007098 | Population Pyramids | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex | 39 | |
| 1665007099 | Restrictive Popluation Policies | Government policies designed to reduce the rate of natural increase | 40 | |
| 1665007100 | Sex ratio | the ratio of men to women | 41 | |
| 1665007101 | Standard of living | The goods a services and their distribution within a population | 42 | |
| 1665007102 | Stationary Population Level | The level at which a national population ceases to grow | 43 | |
| 1665007103 | Sustainability | The level of development that can be maintained without depleting resources | 44 | |
| 1665007104 | Total Fertility rate | the average number of children a woman has | 45 | |
| 1665007105 | underpopulation (Is that even a real word??) | A drop or decrease in a region's population | 46 | |
| 1665007106 | Zero population growth (ZPG) | Where natural birth rate declines to equal crude birth rate and the natural rate of population approaches 0 | 47 |
