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| 973031311 | Demography | The scientific study of population characteristics. | 0 | |
| 973031312 | What are the three reasons that population study is important? | -More people are alive at this time (7 billion) -The worlds population increased at a faster rate during the second half of the 20th Century -Virtually all global population growth is concentrated in LDCs. | 1 | |
| 973031313 | Overpopulation problem includes... | total number of people an earth relationship between people and resources | 2 | |
| 973031314 | Overpopulation occurs when... | an areas population exceeds the capacity of the environment. | 3 | |
| 973031315 | The worlds inhabitants are clustered in which 4 regions? | East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe | 4 | |
| 973031316 | What is a Population Cartogram? | the countries are displayed be the size of population rather than land area | 5 | |
| 973031317 | What is a population distribution map? | People are not distributed uniformly across earths surface. | 6 | |
| 973031318 | What fraction of the earths population lives in East Asia? | nearly 1/4th | 7 | |
| 973031319 | What fraction of the earths population lives in South Asia? | nearly 1/4 | 8 | |
| 973031320 | What how many people live in Southeast Asia? | 600 million | 9 | |
| 973031321 | What fraction of the earths population lives in Europe? | 1/9 | 10 | |
| 973031322 | The Largest population concentration in the Western Hemisphere is.. | northeastern US and Southeastern Canada | 11 | |
| 973031323 | What percent of the earths population lives in northeastern US and Southeastern Canada? | 2% | 12 | |
| 973031324 | What other population clusters are there? | -Northeastern US and Southeastern Canada (2%) -West Africa (2%) | 13 | |
| 973031325 | Ecumene | the portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement | 14 | |
| 973031326 | Dry Lands | Areas too dry for farming (deserts) Cover approximately 20% of earths surface | 15 | |
| 973031327 | Wet Lands | High Levels of participation. May be inhospitable for human occupation. Located primarily near the equator between 20˚ north and south latitude. | 16 | |
| 973031328 | Cold Lands | Covered with Ice or permafrost. Unsuitable for plants and crops, few animals and people. | 17 | |
| 973031329 | High Lands | high elevations. relatively few people. | 18 | |
| 973031330 | Arithmetic Density | total # of people divided by total land area. | 19 | |
| 973031331 | Arithmetic Density is used to... | compare conditions in different countries. | 20 | |
| 973031332 | Arable Land | Land suitable for growing crops | 21 | |
| 973031333 | Physological Density | The number of people supported by a unit area of arable land | 22 | |
| 973031334 | Arithmetic Density is used to... | provide insights into the relationship between the size of a population and the availability of resources in that region. | 23 | |
| 973031335 | Agricultural Density | The ration of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land. | 24 | |
| 973031336 | CBR | crude Birth rate- | 25 | |
| 973031337 | CDR | Crude death rate- | 26 | |
| 973031338 | NIR | natural increase rate- | 27 | |
| 973031339 | doubling time | the number of years needed to double a population. | 28 | |
| 973031340 | TFR | total fertility rate | 29 | |
| 973031341 | TFR is used to... | Measure the number of births in a society. | 30 | |
| 973031342 | TFR is | the average number a woman will have throughout her childbearing years. | 31 | |
| 973031343 | IMR | infant mortality rate | 32 | |
| 973031344 | IMR is.... | The number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age compared with total live births. | 33 | |
| 973031345 | Life Expectancy | measures the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live at current mortality rates. | 34 | |
| 973031346 | Demographic Transition | a similar process of change in a society's population | 35 | |
| 973031347 | A burst in population growth around 8000 bc was caused by what? | Agricultural Revolution | 36 | |
| 973031348 | Countries entered stage 2 after 1750 because of what? | Industrial revolution | 37 | |
| 973031349 | the push of countries into stage 2 was caused by what? | The medical revolution | 38 | |
| 973031350 | Zero Population Growth | When the NIR approaches zero | 39 | |
| 973031351 | NPG | Zero Population Growth | 40 | |
| 973031352 | Population Pyramid | A country's population displayed by age and gender in a bar graph. | 41 | |
| 973031353 | Dependency ratio | the number of people too old or too young to work compared to the number of people in their productive years | 42 | |
| 973031354 | Sex Ratio | The number of males per 100 females in a population | 43 | |
| 973031355 | Thomas Malthus | one of the first people to argue that the worlds rate of population increase was far out running the development of food supplies. | 44 | |
| 973031356 | Neo Malthusians | argue that two characteristics of recent population growth make Malthus's thesis more frightening than when it was first written more than 200 years ago | 45 | |
| 973031357 | First reason brought up by the Neo- Malthusians: | The theory hadn't predicted the highest population growth would be in LDC | 46 | |
| 973031358 | Second reason brought up by the Neo- Malthusians: | world population growth is outstripping a wide variety of resources not just food production | 47 | |
| 973031359 | Epidemiologic transition | focus on distinctive causes fo death ing each stage of the DTM. | 48 | |
| 973031360 | Epidemiology | the branch of medical science concerned with incidence, distribution and control of diseases | 49 |
