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Chapter 2 Flashcards

1
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Agricultural density

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The ratio of number of farmers to the total amount of arable land

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government policy that supports lower birthrates

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Anti-Natalist Policy

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3
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Land suitable for agriculture

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Arable land

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4
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The total number of people divided by the total land area

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Arithmetic density

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5
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The population size of a species that the environment can sustain in definitely given the resources

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Carrying capacity

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A complete enumeration of the population

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Census

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7
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The total number of live births in a year for everyone thousand people live in the society

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Crude birth rate

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The total number of deaths in every year for everyone thousand people live in society

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Crude death rate

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The process of changing a societies population from a condition of high crude birth rate and death rate and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth rate and death rate Laredo of natural increase and high population

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Demographic transition

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10
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The scientific study of population characteristics

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Demographics

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The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force

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Dependency ratio

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The number of years needed to AA population assuming a constant rate of natural increase

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Doubling time

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13
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The portion of earth service occupied by permanent human settlement

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Ecumene

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Widespread occurrence of a infectious disease in a community at a particular time

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Epidemic

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The process of changing distinctive causes of death in each stage Stage of the demographic transition model

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Epidemiologic transition

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The branch of medical science concerned with the incidence distribution and control of diseases that are prevalent among the population of a special time and are produced by some special cars is not generally present in the effected locality

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Epidemiology

17
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Hey series of improvements in an industrial technology transformed the process of manufacturing goods

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Industrial revolution

18
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Eternal number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for everyone thousand live births in a society

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Infant mortality rate

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The average number of years an individual Can be expected to live given current social economic and medical conditions life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live

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Life expectancy

20
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The annual number a female deaths per hundred thousand live births from any cars related or aggravated by pregnancy or it’s management

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Maternal mortality rate

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Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that has the fuse to the poor countries in Latin America Asia and Africa improve medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional cause of death in poor countries and enable my people to live longer and healthier lives

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Medical revolution

22
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The percentage of growth of a population in a year computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate

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Natural increase rate

23
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Situation in which the capacity of people in an area to see the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living

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Overpopulation

24
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An Epidemic that occurs over a wide geographic area and effects a very high proportion of the population at the same time

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Pandemic

25
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The number of people per unit area of arable land which is Lance suitable for agriculture

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Physiological density

26
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A bar graph that represents the distribution of population By age and sex

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Population pyramid

27
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The number of working age people divided by the number of persons 65 and older

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Potential support ratio

28
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Government policy that supports her birth rates

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Pronatalist policy

29
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The number of males per 100 females in the population

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Sex ratio

30
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The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years

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Total fertility rate

31
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I decline of the total fertility rate to a point where the natural increase rate equals zero

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Zero population growth

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