Chapter 2- The Cultural Landscape Vocab Flashcards

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