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Agricultural density |
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
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Agricultural Revolution |
The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering (any transitions? Demographic, migration, epidemiologic) |
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Arithmetic density |
The total number of people divided by the total land area |
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Census |
A complete enumeration of a population |
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Crude birth rate |
The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in society |
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Crude death rate |
The number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society |
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Demographic transition |
The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rate and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates low rate of natural increase and a higher total population (name and describe stages) |
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Demography |
The scientific study of population characteristics |
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Dependency ratio |
The number of people in a society who are too old or too young to work , compared to the number of people active in the labor force |
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Doubling time |
The amount of time it takes for a population to double in number assuming a constant NIR |
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Ecumene |
The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
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Epidemiologic transition |
Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition (can you name any?) |
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Epidemiology |
Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence distribution and control of diseases that are prevalent among the population at a special time and are produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality |
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Industrial Revolution |
A series of improvements in industrial technology that transforms the process of manufacturing goods (Which demographic transition stage?) |
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Infant mortality rate (imr) |
The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society |
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Life expectancy |
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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Medical Revolution |
Medical Technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffuse to the poor countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poor countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives. |
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Natural increase rate |
The percentage growth of a population in a year computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate |
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Overpopulation |
The 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 |
Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population |
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Physiological density |
The number of people per unit of area of land available for agriculture |
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Population pyramid |
A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex |
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Sex ratio |
The number of males per 100 females in the population |
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Total fertility rate (TFR) |
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years, about 15 to 49 |
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Zero population growth (ZPG) |
A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero |
