APes ! Flashcards

8748670024	Thomas Malthus	promoted concept of humans overshooting carrying capacity which will lead to widespread starvation	0
8748670025	Demography	the study of human populations and population trends	1
8748670026	Infant mortality	the number of infants dying within the first year of life	2
8748670027	Age structure diagrams	shows number of individuals within each age category for males and females	3
8748670028	Population Momentum	continued population growth that does not slow in response to population reduction measures	4
8748670029	Net migration rate	the difference between immigration and emigration for a given year for a population	5
8748670030	Theory of Demographic Transition	theory that as a country moves from a subsistence economy to an industrialized economy it undergoes a predictable shift in population growth	6
8748670031	Family Planning	the practice of regulating the number or spacing of offspring through the use of birth control	7
8748670032	Affluence	wealth and income of a particular country	8
8748670033	IPAT Equation	Impact= Population x Affluence x Technology	9
8748670034	Urban Area	populous area in and immediately surround a city	10
8748670035	Gross Domestic Product (GDP)	measure of the value of all products and services produced within a country in a given year	11
8748670036	Sustainable development	development that balances human well being with economic advances and resource management for the benefit of future generations	12