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AP Human Geography Population Flashcards

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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5003205269agricultural revolutionthe development of farming0
5003205270arithmetic densityThe total number of people divided by the total land area1
5003205271CensusA complete enumeration of a population2
5003205272Crude Birth Rate (CBR)The number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society3
5003205273Crude Death Rate (CDR)The number of deaths in a year per 1,000 people alive in a society4
5003205274Demographic Transitionthe process of change in a society's population as a combination of medical advances and economic development, affecting a population's desire and ability to control its own birth and death rates5
5003205275Demographythe scientific study of population characteristics6
5003205276Dependency ratiothe number of people under 15 and over 64 compared to the number of people in the workforce7
5003205277Doubling Timethe number of years it takes for an area's population to double8
5003205278Ecumenethe portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement9
5003205279Epidemiological transitionThe a distinctive cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition. Explains how countries' population change.10
5003205280Infant Mortality RateThe total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old per 1000 live births in a society11
5003205281Life ExpectancyThe average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social, medical, and economic conditions.12
5003205282Medical Revolutionmedical technology from Europe and North America that was used to eliminate many diseases in the developing world13
5003205283MegalopolisTerm used to designate large coalescing supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world.14
5003205284Natural Increase Rate (NIR)The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate (NIR=CBR-CDR)15
5003205285Overpopulationa situation in which the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living16
5003205286Physiological DensityThe number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture17
5003205287Population CompositionStructure of population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education18
5003205288Population DensityA measurement of the number of people per given unit of land19
5003205289Population DistributionDescription of locations on Earth's surface where populations live20
5003205290Population PyramidA bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex21
5003205291Sex ratiothe ratio of men to women22
5003205292Standard of livingGoods and services and their distribution within a population23
5003205293Total Fertility Rate (TFR)The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years.24
5003205294Zero population growth (ZPG)A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.25
5003205295Agricultural DensityThe ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.26
5003205296Major Population Clusters -- East Asia1/4 global population: East China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan27
5003205297Major Population Clusters -- South Asia1/4 of global population: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka28
5003205298Major Population Clusters -- Southeast Asia600 million people: Indonesia, Philippines, and the river deltas of the Indochina peninsula29
5003205299Major Population Clusters -- Europe600 million people: 50 countries mostly clustered in Western Europe in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and France30
5003205300Industrial Revolutiona series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and drastically altered society31
5003205301Thomas Malthus(1766-1834) An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in food production, which would lead to widespread famine and disease.32
5003205302One Child PolicyChinese policy used to control population growth which began in the 1980's and restricted families to having only one child.33
5003205303Family PlanningThe practice of controlling the number and frequency of children conceived usually through the use of contraception or voluntary sterilization.34
5003205304Sterilizationany process that eliminates a person's ability to produce children35
5003205305EpidemiologyThe branch of medical science that is concerned with identifying, fighting, and preventing disease.36
5003205306PandemicDisease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.37
5003205307Dr. John Snow(1813-1858) English physician who used hand-drawn data layering on maps of London to identify and treat a cholera epidemic38
5003205308Sustainabilitythe level of development that can be maintained without depleting resources39

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