Chap 2

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Aging index

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the number of people aged 65 years and older per 100 children aged zero to 14 years in a given population

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Aids

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A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles.

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Arithmetic density

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A measure of total population relative to land size. This is also called population density

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Census

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A periodic and official count of a country's population.

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Cmr

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The recording of the deaths of children between the ages of 1 through 5 per thousand.

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Chronic disease

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Also known as degenerative disease. This is a malady of longevity and old age. An example is heart disease.

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Cbr

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Number of live births per thousand people in a population

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Cdr

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he number of deaths per year per thousand people.

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Demographic transition

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Shift in population growth

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Dot map

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common type of map used to display population. One mark is equal to a certain amount of people in an area.

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Doubling time

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The amount of time that it takes a population to multiple by 2.

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Endemic

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disease that spreads over a small area.

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Eugenic population policy

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A policy that some governments have engaged in which is designed to favor one racial or cultural sector ofthe population over others.

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Expansive population policy

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A policy held by the former Soviet Union and some other communist societies in which large familes were encouraged in order to increase the RNI.

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Genetic disease

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inherited disease. This is an illness that can be traced back through ancestry such as sickle-cell anemia or hemophilia.

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Imr

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One of the leading merasures of the condition of a country's population. This is the number of baby's who die during the first year of life per thousand live births

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Infectious disease

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About 65% percent of all diseases fall under this category. These result from an invasion of parasites that multiple within the body. An example is Malaria.

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Le

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The average number of years that someone may expect to stay alive

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Megalopolis

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Huge urban area that has extremely large populations

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One-child policy

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A program established by the Chinese government in 1979 to slow population growth in China.

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Physiology density

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A measure of population density that is found by dividing the total number of people by the area of ARABLE land

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Pop composition

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Aspects that make up a population. These can include sex, age, marital status, and education.

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Pop density

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A measure of total population relative to land size.

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Pop distributions

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Descriptions of locations on the Earth's surface where individuals or groups live

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Pop explosion

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The rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century, attended by ever-shorter doubling times and accelerating rates of increase

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Pop pyramid

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This is a visual representation of the composition of a population in terms of age and sex.

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Rni

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The difference between the number of births and the number of deaths

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Restrictive pop policy

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A policy that is now generaly enforced by the majority of the world's governments. This policy range from toleration and promotion of birth control to prohibition of large families. China's "One Child Policy" is an example of this.

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Stage 5

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This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by a declining population. Birth rates continue to fall and drop below death rates. Death rates remain steadily low

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Stage 4

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This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by a decrease in population growth. The birth rates continue to fall while the death rates remain steadily low.

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Stage 1

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This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by low population growth. There are high birth and death rates in this stage.

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Stage 3

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This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by a population explosion. Birth rates remain high although they begin to fall. Death rates are very low (still decreasing but close to leveling off)

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Stage 2

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This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by increased population growth. There are high birth rates and declining death rates.

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Stationary pop level

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A term abbrev. SPL that refers to a theory that the global population will stop growing some time during the 21st century and reach this stage.

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Thomas malthus

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A man that believed that the world's population was increasing faster than the food supply needed to sustain it. He thought that food supplies grew LINEARLY and that population grew EXPONENTIALLY.

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Tfr

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Average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime. A TFR of 2.1 or higher indicates a stable population.

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Zero pop growth

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A state in which a population is maintained at a constant level because the number of deaths is exactly offset by the number of births.