AP Human Geography: Population Flashcards

7502856688	Demography	study of population	0
7502859964	Population Density	measure of the total population relative to land size	1
7509402954	Arithmetic Population Density	derived by dividing the population by the number of square miles (total area)	2
7502864140	Physiological Population Density	number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land	3
7502867765	Population Distribution	descriptions of locations on the earth's surface where individuals or groups live	4
7502876681	Dot Maps	a map that represents population distribution	5
7502879871	Megalopolis	huge urban agglomoration and major focus of North America's population (20%)	6
7502885754	Census	population count	7
7502889119	Doubling Time	the time required for a population to double in size	8
7502892562	Population Explosion	the rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century	9
7502895921	Natural Increase	the difference between the number of births and number of deaths	10
7502899552	Crude Birth Rate	the number of live births per year per 1000 people	11
7502902987	Crude Death Rate	the number of deaths per year per 1000 people	12
7502909540	Demographic Transition	shift in population growth	13
7502911767	Stationary Population Level	level at which the national population ceases to grow	14
7502925127	TFR	Total Fertility Rate (must be 2.1 per woman of childbearing age)	15
7502930212	Replacement Level	the level at which a population remains stable without immigration	16
7536713030	Population Composition	structure of a population in terms of age sex, marital status and education	17
7536772527	Population Pyramid	displays the percentages of each age group (male and female)	18
7536848344	Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)	a figure that describes the number of babies that die within the first year of their lives in a given population	19
7537081912	Child Mortality Rate (CMR)	a figure that describes the number of children that die between the ages of 1-5	20
7537088536	Life Expectancy	the number of years, on average, someone may expect to remain alive	21
7537101220	Infectious Diseases	result from an invasion of parasites and their multiplication in the body (malaria)	22
7537110276	Chronic (Degenerative) Diseases	result from the maladies of longevity or old age (heart disease)	23
7537119343	Genetic (Inherited) Diseases	can be traced to our ancestry (hemophilia)	24
7537125469	Endemic	a disease that prevails over a small area	25
7549933690	Expansive Population Policies	encourage large families and raise the rate of natural increase	26
7549941903	Eugenic Population Policies	designed to favor one racial or cultural sector of the population over others	27
7549950408	Restrictive Population Policies	range from toleration of officially unapproved means of birth control to prohibition of large families	28
7549963647	One-Child Policy	instituted in China in the 1970s to drastically reduce the growth rate	29
7584520860	Japan	a country whose population is declining as it ages, encourages homogeneity and resists immigration	30
7584594744	Egypt	a country where population density is misleading because most of the people are clustered near the Nile River Valley	31
7585696708	Eurasia	the landmass on which the world's 3 largest population concentrations are found (Europe, East Asia, South Asia)	32
7585724418	Yellow and Yangtze Rivers	the 2 river valleys in China that boast a high population density, where farmers produce food for the major cities	33
7585741770	Ganges River	the river valley in India that boasts the greatest population density	34
7585908511	Europe	the continent on which a high % of people live in cities and towns oriented to coal fields	35
7585945708	Malthusianism	population principle that states while food supplies grown linearly, the population grows exponentially	36
7585994537	sterilization	India used this method (among males) to reduce population growth rates in the 1970s	37
7586020895	Vectored	a disease which is transmitted by an intermediary from host to victim	38
7586056830	Evergreen Tree	the shape of a population pyramid of poorer countries where birth and death rates remain high	39