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
10455173042 | agricultural revolution | the development of farming | 0 | |
10455173043 | arithmetic density | The total number of people divided by the total land area | 1 | |
10455173044 | Census | A complete enumeration of a population | 2 | |
10455173045 | Crude Birth Rate (CBR) | The number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society | 3 | |
10455173046 | Crude Death Rate (CDR) | The number of deaths in a year per 1,000 people alive in a society | 4 | |
10455173047 | Demographic Transition | the 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 rates | 5 | |
10455173048 | Demography | the scientific study of population characteristics | 6 | |
10455173049 | Dependency ratio | the number of people under 15 and over 64 compared to the number of people in the workforce | 7 | |
10455173050 | Doubling Time | the number of years it takes for an area's population to double | 8 | |
10455173051 | Ecumene | the portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement | 9 | |
10455173052 | Epidemiological transition | The a distinctive cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition. Explains how countries' population change. | 10 | |
10455173053 | Infant Mortality Rate | The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old per 1000 live births in a society | 11 | |
10455173054 | Life Expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social, medical, and economic conditions. | 12 | |
10455173055 | Medical Revolution | medical technology from Europe and North America that was used to eliminate many diseases in the developing world | 13 | |
10455173056 | Megalopolis | Term used to designate large coalescing supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world. | 14 | |
10455173057 | Natural 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 | |
10455173058 | Overpopulation | a situation in which the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living | 16 | |
10455173059 | Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture | 17 | |
10455173060 | Population Composition | Structure of population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education | 18 | |
10455173061 | Population Density | A measurement of the number of people per given unit of land | 19 | |
10455173062 | Population Distribution | Description of locations on Earth's surface where populations live | 20 | |
10455173063 | Population Pyramid | A bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex | 21 | |
10455173064 | Sex ratio | the ratio of men to women | 22 | |
10455173065 | Standard of living | Goods and services and their distribution within a population | 23 | |
10455173066 | Total Fertility Rate (TFR) | The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years. | 24 | |
10455173067 | Zero population growth (ZPG) | A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. | 25 | |
10455173068 | Agricultural Density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. | 26 | |
10455173069 | Major Population Clusters -- East Asia | 1/4 global population: East China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan | 27 | |
10455173070 | Major Population Clusters -- South Asia | 1/4 of global population: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka | 28 | |
10455173071 | Major Population Clusters -- Southeast Asia | 600 million people: Indonesia, Philippines, and the river deltas of the Indochina peninsula | 29 | |
10455173072 | Major Population Clusters -- Europe | 600 million people: 50 countries mostly clustered in Western Europe in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and France | 30 | |
10455173073 | Industrial Revolution | a series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and drastically altered society | 31 | |
10455173074 | Thomas 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 | |
10455173075 | One Child Policy | Chinese policy used to control population growth which began in the 1980's and restricted families to having only one child. | 33 | |
10455173076 | Family Planning | The practice of controlling the number and frequency of children conceived usually through the use of contraception or voluntary sterilization. | 34 | |
10455173077 | Sterilization | any process that eliminates a person's ability to produce children | 35 | |
10455173078 | Epidemiology | The branch of medical science that is concerned with identifying, fighting, and preventing disease. | 36 | |
10455173079 | Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. | 37 | |
10455173080 | Dr. John Snow | (1813-1858) English physician who used hand-drawn data layering on maps of London to identify and treat a cholera epidemic | 38 | |
10455173081 | Sustainability | the level of development that can be maintained without depleting resources | 39 |