Unit 2

Question 1

number of males per 100 females

Answer 1

sex ratio

Question 2

when population fertility is just high enough to maintain current population

Answer 2

replacement fertility

Question 3

describes the ages and number of males and females in a given population

Answer 3

age distribution

Question 4

time when humans first domesticated plants and animals

Answer 4

agricultural revolution

Question 5

counts the population of a nation, state, or geographic region

Answer 5

census

Question 6

number of children that die between the first and fifth years of their life

Answer 6

child mortality rate

Question 7

birth control by the use of devices

Answer 7

contraception

Question 8

futurist who believes continued progress and provision of material can be met by advances in technology

Answer 8

cornucopians

Question 9

study patterns and rates of population change

Answer 9

demography

Question 10

projected amount of time it will take for a given population to double

Answer 10

doubling time

Question 11

inhabited land

Answer 11

ecumene

Question 12

medical technology diffused to poorer countries

Answer 12

medical revolution

Question 13

a disease that has spread worldwide

Answer 13

pandemic

Question 14

cluster of people living in the same area

Answer 14

population agglomerations

Question 15

number of people per unit of arable land, suitable for farming

Answer 15

physiological density

Question 16

a sudden increase or burst in the population

Answer 16

zero population growth

Question 17

total number of people divided by the total land area

Answer 17

arithmetic density

Question 18

vertical axis age groups

Answer 18

cohorts

Question 19

tool that provides information on birth rates, gender data, how long people live, and economic development

Answer 19

population pyramid

Question 20

theory of the relationship between people and the earth

Answer 20

Malthusian theory

Question 21

global overpopulation is a serious problem and even greater threat for the future

Answer 21

neo-malthusian theory

Question 22

predictable stages in disease and life expectancy that countries experience as they develop

Answer 22

epidemiological transition model

Question 23

total population change = births-deaths+immigrants-emigrants

Answer 23

demographic equation

Question 24

people who move out of the country

Answer 24

emigrants

Question 25

people who move into the country

Answer 25

immigrants

Question 26

number of deaths per year for each 1,000 people

Answer 26

crude death rate

Question 27

number of live births per year for each 1,000 people

Answer 27

crude birth rate

Question 28

percent at which a country's population is growing or declining without the impact of migration

Answer 28

natural increase rate

Question 29

shows 5 typical stages of population change that countries pass through as they modernize

Answer 29

demographic transition model

Question 30

number of children who die before their first birthday

Answer 30

infant mortality rate

Question 31

number of years the average person will live

Answer 31

life expectancy

Question 32

programs designed to increase fertility rate

Answer 32

pro-natalism

Question 33

programs designed to decrease the number of births

Answer 33

anti-natalism

Question 34

group expected to be society's labor force

Answer 34

potential workforce

Question 35

too young or too old to work full time

Answer 35

dependent population

Question 36

a value comparing the working to nonworking parts of a population

Answer 36

dependency ratio

Question 37

average number of children who would be born per woman of that group in a country

Answer 37

total fertility rate

Question 38

lower number of births after a boom

Answer 38

baby bust

Question 39

spike of birth rate

Answer 39

baby boom

Question 40

having more people than it can support

Answer 40

overpopulation

Question 41

compares the number of farms to the area of arable lad

Answer 41

agricultural density

Question 42

population it can support without significant environmental deterioration

Answer 42

carrying capacity

Question 43

land suitable for growing crops

Answer 43

arable