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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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6616135461agricultural revolutionthe development of farming0
6616135462arithmetic densityThe total number of people divided by the total land area1
6616135463CensusA complete enumeration of a population2
6616135464Crude Birth Rate (CBR)The number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society3
6616135465Crude Death Rate (CDR)The number of deaths in a year per 1,000 people alive in a society4
6616135466Demographic 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
6616135467Demographythe scientific study of population characteristics6
6616135468Dependency ratiothe number of people under 15 and over 64 compared to the number of people in the workforce7
6616135469Doubling Timethe number of years it takes for an area's population to double8
6616135471Epidemiological transitionThe a distinctive cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition. Explains how countries' population change.9
6616135472Infant Mortality RateThe total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old per 1000 live births in a society10
6616135473Life ExpectancyThe average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social, medical, and economic conditions.11
6616135474Medical Revolutionmedical technology from Europe and North America that was used to eliminate many diseases in the developing world12
6616135475MegalopolisTerm used to designate large coalescing supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world.13
6616135476Natural 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)14
6616135477Overpopulationa situation in which the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living15
6616135478Physiological DensityThe number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture16
6616135479Population CompositionStructure of population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education17
6616135480Population DensityA measurement of the number of people per given unit of land18
6616135481Population DistributionDescription of locations on Earth's surface where populations live19
6616135482Population PyramidA bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex20
6616135483Sex ratiothe ratio of men to women21
6616135484Standard of livingGoods and services and their distribution within a population22
6616135485Total Fertility Rate (TFR)The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years.23
6616135486Zero population growth (ZPG)A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.24
6616135487Agricultural DensityThe ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.25
6616135488Major Population Clusters -- East Asia1/4 global population: East China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan26
6616135489Major Population Clusters -- South Asia1/4 of global population: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka27
6616135490Major Population Clusters -- Southeast Asia600 million people: Indonesia, Philippines, and the river deltas of the Indochina peninsula28
6616135491Major Population Clusters -- Europe600 million people: 50 countries mostly clustered in Western Europe in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and France29
6616135492Industrial Revolutiona series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and drastically altered society30
6616135493Thomas 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.31
6616135494One Child PolicyChinese policy used to control population growth which began in the 1980's and restricted families to having only one child.32
6616135495Family PlanningThe practice of controlling the number and frequency of children conceived usually through the use of contraception or voluntary sterilization.33
6616135496Sterilizationany process that eliminates a person's ability to produce children34
6616135497EpidemiologyThe branch of medical science that is concerned with identifying, fighting, and preventing disease.35
6616135498PandemicDisease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.36
6616135500Sustainabilitythe level of development that can be maintained without depleting resources37

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