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29 Cards in this Set
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Agricultural Density
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Ratio of the number of farmers to the arable land
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Agricultural Revolution
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Time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
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Arithmetic Density
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Total number of people divided by the total land area
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Census
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A complete count of a population
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Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
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Total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society
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Crude Death Rate (CDR)
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Total number fo deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society
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Demographic Transition
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The process with several stages, and every country is in one of them.
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Demography
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scientific study of a population characteristic
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Dependency Ration
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Number of people uner the age of 15 and over the age of 64 compared to the number of people in active labor force
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Doubling Time
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Number of years needed to double the population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
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Epidemiological Transition
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Distinctive causes of death in each stage of demographic transition
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Epidemiology
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Branch of medical science concerned with the incident, distribution, and control of diseases that affect a large amount of people.
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Ecumene
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Portion of Earth's surface that is permanently occupied by human settlement.
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Industrial Revolution
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Series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufactured goods
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Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
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Total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1,000 live births in a society.
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Life Expectancy
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Average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions.
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Life Expectancy at birth
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The average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live.
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Medical Revolution
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Medical technology invented in Europe and North Americathat is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
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Natural Increase Rate (NIR)
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Percent of growth of a population in a year, computed as the CBR-CDR
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Overpopulation
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Number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
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Pandemic
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Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.
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Physiological Density
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Number of people per unit area of arable land.
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Population Pyramid
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Bar Graph representing the distribution by age and sex.
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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
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Average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
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Zero Population Growth
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Law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
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Stage 1
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Low Growth. CBR and CDR is consistant. People depend of hunting.
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Stage 2
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High Growth. Medical Revolution and Industrial Revolution. CBR stays the same while CDR plummets.
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Stage 3.
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Moderate Growth. People decide to have less babies.CBR falls while CDR stays the same.
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Stage 4.
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Low Growth. Zero population Growth and Total fertility rate. woman die more before childbearing years. woman are now working.
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