Unit 2 Flashcards
(26 cards)
What does age-sex distribution refer to?
It is represented by a population pyramid.
What is arithmetic density?
It is the number of people living in an area.
What is the Baby Boom?
A period when many babies were born after World War II.
What is the Baby Bust?
The 1960s and 1970s when fertility rates in the US dropped.
What is the Child Mortality Rate?
The number of deaths per thousand children within the first five years of life.
What is the Crude Birth Rate?
The number of births per year per 1000 people.
What is the Crude Death Rate?
The number of deaths per year per 1000 people.
What is the Total Fertility Rate?
The average number of children born to a woman over her entire life.
What is the Infant Mortality Rate?
The percentage of children who die before their first birthday.
What is the Maternal Mortality Rate?
The number of deaths per thousand women giving birth.
What is the Natural Increase Rate?
The difference between the Crude Birth Rate and the Crude Death Rate.
What is the Demographic Accounting Equation?
It predicts future population using population, births, deaths, immigration, and emigration.
What is emigration?
The act of people moving out of some place.
What is immigration?
The act of people moving into some place.
What are push factors?
Anything that would cause someone to want to move from somewhere.
What are pull factors?
Factors that induce people to move to a place.
What is internal migration?
Migrating inside a country.
What is the Rust Belt?
Northern industrial states which used to have factories.
What is the Sun Belt?
Cities in the south that are now experiencing rapid population growth.
What is the Malthusian Theory?
It suggests that population grows faster than food supply, leading to shortages and societal collapse unless checked.
What is the Neo-Malthusian Theory?
It argues that rapid population growth threatens non-renewable resources and the environment.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
It explains how a country’s population growth changes over time through five stages.
What is Arithmetic Density?
Population divided by area.
