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Ch 2: Population

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31882139Agricultural DensityThe ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.
31882140Agricultural RevolutionThe time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
31882141Arithmetic DensityThe total number of people divided by the total land area.
31882142CensusA complete enumeration of a population.
31882143Crude Birth Rate (CBR)The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.
31882144Crude Death Rate (CDR)The total number of live deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.
31882145Demographic TransitionThe process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population.
31882146DemographyThe scientific study of population characteristics.
31882147Dependency RatioThe number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force.
31882148Doubling TimeThe number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
31882149EpidemiologyBranch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people.
31882150EcumeneThe portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.
31882151Industrial RevolutionA series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
31882152Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)The total number of deaths in a year amoung infants under one year old for every 1,000 live births in a society.
31882153Life ExpectancyThe average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live.
31882154Medical RevolutionMedical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives.
31882155Natural Increase Rate (NIR)The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.
31882156OverpopulationThe number of a people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
31882157PandemicDisease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.
31882158Physiological DensityThe number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
31882159Population PyramidA bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
31882160Sex RatioThe number of males per 100 females in the population.
31882161Total Fertility Rate (TFR)The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years.
31882162Zero Population Growth (ZPG)A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.
31882163Epidemiological TransitionDistinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.

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