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Chapter 2: Population Vocabulary
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- 1Agricultural DensityThe ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
- 2Agricultural RevolutionThe time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
- 3Arithmetic DensityThe total number of people divided by the total land area
- 4CensusA complete enumeration of a population
- 5Crude Birth RateThe total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society
- 6Crude Death RateThe total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society
- 7Demographic TransitionThe process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population
- 8DemographyThe scientific study of population characteristics
- 9Dependency RatioThe number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force
- 10Doubling TimeThe number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
- 11EcumeneThe portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement
- 12Epidemiologic transitionDistinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition
- 13EpidemologyBranch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that are prevalent among a population at a special time and are produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality
- 14Industrial RevolutionA series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
- 15Infant Mortality RateThe total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society
- 16Life ExpectancyThe 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
- 17Medical RevolutionMedical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives
- 18Natural Increase RateThe percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate
- 19OverpopulationThe number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
- 20PandemicDisease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
- 21Physiological DensityThe number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture
- 22Population PyramidA bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
- 23Sex RatioThe number of males per 100 females in the population
- 24Total Fertility RateThe average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
- 25Zero Population GrowthA decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero
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