AP Human Geography Population Flashcards

8907518757	Census	A complete enumeration of a population	0
8907518758	Demographic Transition	the process of change in a society's population	1
8907518759	Demography	the scientific study of population characteristics	2
8907518760	Infant Mortality Rate	number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old per 1000	3
8907518761	Natural Increase Rate (NIR)	The percentage growth of a population in a year (CBR-CDR)	4
8907518762	Physiological Population Density	people per arable land	5
8907518763	Population Composition	Structure of population in terms of age, sex	6
8907518764	Population Pyramid	represents the distribution of population by age and sex	7
8907518765	Total Fertility Rate (TFR)	The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years.	8
8907518766	Zero population growth (ZPG)	A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.	9
8907518767	Thomas Malthus	first to recognize population would outgrow food	10
8907518769	Sustainability	the level of development that can be maintained without depleting resources	11
8907518770	Stable Population Level	stable fertility and death rates	12
8907518771	Carrying Capacity	The largest population that an area can support	13
8907518772	doubling time	BR-DR/10=# 70/#	14
8907518773	5 stages of demographic transition	1 - lots of births and lots of deaths 2 - birth stays, death drops 3 - birth drops, death stays 4 - low birth, low death 5 - birth rates drop below replacement level	15
8907518774	age distribution	proportion of people with different ages	16
8907518775	restrictive policy	enforces smaller families	17
8907518776	5 stages of epidemiological transition	1 - Pestilence 2 - receding pandemics 3 - degenerative diseases 4 - delayed degenerative diseases 5 - reemergence of infectious diseases	18
8907518777	epidemiological transition	transferring of mortality, disease	19
8907518778	sex ratio	number of males per 100 females	20