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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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5746041739agricultural revolutionthe development of farming0
5746041740arithmetic densityThe total number of people divided by the total land area1
5746041741CensusA complete enumeration of a population2
5746041742Crude Birth Rate (CBR)The number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society3
5746041743Crude Death Rate (CDR)The number of deaths in a year per 1,000 people alive in a society4
5746041744Demographic 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
5746041745Demographythe scientific study of population characteristics6
5746041746Dependency ratiothe number of people under 15 and over 64 compared to the number of people in the workforce7
5746041747Doubling Timethe number of years it takes for an area's population to double8
5746041748Ecumenethe portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement9
5746041749Epidemiological transitionThe a distinctive cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition. Explains how countries' population change.10
5746041750Infant Mortality RateThe total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old per 1000 live births in a society11
5746041751Life ExpectancyThe average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social, medical, and economic conditions.12
5746041752Medical Revolutionmedical technology from Europe and North America that was used to eliminate many diseases in the developing world13
5746041754Natural 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
5746041755Overpopulationa 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
5746041756Physiological DensityThe number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture16
5746041758Population DensityA measurement of the number of people per given unit of land17
5746041759Population DistributionDescription of locations on Earth's surface where populations live18
5746041760Population PyramidA bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex19
5746041761Sex ratiothe ratio of men to women20
5746041762Standard of livingGoods and services and their distribution within a population21
5746041763Total Fertility Rate (TFR)The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years.22
5746041764Zero population growth (ZPG)A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.23
5746041765Agricultural DensityThe ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.24
5746041766Major Population Clusters -- East Asia1/4 global population: East China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan25
5746041767Major Population Clusters -- South Asia1/4 of global population: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka26
5746041768Major Population Clusters -- Southeast Asia600 million people: Indonesia, Philippines, and the river deltas of the Indochina peninsula27
5746041769Major Population Clusters -- Europe600 million people: 50 countries mostly clustered in Western Europe in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and France28
5746041770Industrial Revolutiona series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and drastically altered society29
5746041771Thomas 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.30
5746041772One Child PolicyChinese policy used to control population growth which began in the 1980's and restricted families to having only one child.31
5746041773Family PlanningThe practice of controlling the number and frequency of children conceived usually through the use of contraception or voluntary sterilization.32
5746041774Sterilizationany process that eliminates a person's ability to produce children33
5746041775EpidemiologyThe branch of medical science that is concerned with identifying, fighting, and preventing disease.34
5746041776PandemicDisease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.35
5746041778Sustainabilitythe level of development that can be maintained without depleting resources36

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