Williams - AP GEO Chapter 2
Test Prep
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| 306202795 | Demography | Study of population characteristics | |
| 306202796 | Ecumene | Portion of earth occupied by permanent human settlement | |
| 306202797 | CBR | acronym for # of live births per 1000 in population | |
| 306202798 | Crude Birth Rate | what acronym CBR stands for | |
| 306202799 | CDR | acronym for # of deaths per 1000 of population | |
| 306202800 | Crude Death Rate | Term that "CDR" as an acronym stands for | |
| 306202801 | NIR | acronym for % by which a population grows in a year, CBR minus CDR | |
| 306202802 | Natural Increase Rate | Term that "NIR" as an acronym stands for | |
| 306202803 | Doubling Time | Number of years needed to double a population | |
| 306202804 | TFR | Average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime | |
| 306202805 | Total Fertility Rate | Term that "TFR" as an acronym stands for | |
| 306202806 | IMR | Annual number of infant deaths under one year of age | |
| 306202807 | Infant Mortality Rate | Term that "IMR" as an acronym stands for | |
| 306202808 | Life Expectancy | Measures the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live at current levels. | |
| 306202809 | Demographic Transition | Change in a society's population from a condition of high CBR/CDR to a condition of low CBR/CDR | |
| 306202810 | Agricultural Revolution | 1st one of these was when humans domesticated plants and animals instead of hunting and gathering; about 10,000 years ago | |
| 306202811 | Industrial Revolution | Improvement in Industrial technology that transformed society (more from agriculture to industry); about 200 years ago | |
| 306202812 | Medical Revolution | Improved medical technology and practices that changed world societies; about 50 years ago | |
| 306202813 | ZPG | Acronym for the decline of total fetility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero | |
| 306202814 | Zero Population Growth | Term that "ZPG", as an acronym, stands for | |
| 306202815 | Population Pyramid | A bar graph that displays a country's population by age and gender; shape is controlled by CBR | |
| 306202816 | Dependency Ratio | Number of people who are too young/too old COMPARED to those who are at the right age to work. | |
| 306202817 | Sex Ratio | Number of males per 100 females in a population | |
| 306202818 | Overpopulation | When population exceeds available resources | |
| 306202819 | Contraceptives | Devices or Medicines to reduce pregnancy/birth rates (aka Birth Control) | |
| 306202820 | Epidemiology | Branch of medical science concerned with deseases | |
| 306202821 | Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide region and impacts a very high proportion of the population | |
| 306202822 | Malthus | Last name of man who first discussed the possibility that population could outgrow food supply | |
| 306202823 | Arithmetic | Type of density; The number of people living in a given unit of area or the total population divided by the total land area | |
| 306202824 | Baby Boom | A large group born in the US between 1946 and 1964, just after WWII | |
| 306202825 | Carrying Capacity | The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can sustainably support | |
| 306202826 | Neo-Malthusian | Someone who believes that Malthus was correct and that we will run out of various resources not just food; often an advocate of population control programs. | |
| 306202827 | Physiologic | Type of density that shows a ratio of total population divided by the total of arable land | |
| 306202828 | Agricultural | Type of density that shows a ratio of the total number of farmers divided by the total arable land. | |
| 306202829 | Arable | Synonym for "Farmable" | |
| 306202830 | Population Clusters | East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Western Europe are the 4 ________ _______. | |
| 306221890 | Acculturation | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture |