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Chapter 2 KTs

Chapter 2 Key Terms Rubenstein

Question	Answer
The diffusion of medical technology that resulted in longer life expectancy in less developed countries	Medical revolution
The number of males per hundred females	Sex ratio
When the crude birth rate is the same as the crude death rate	Zero population growth
The number of infants that die before their first birthday per one thousand live births	Infant mortality rate
The total number of people divided by the total land area	Arithmetic density
The ratio of farmers per unit of arable land.	Agricultural density
The time when humans first domesticated plants and animals	Agricultural revolution
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years	Total fertility rate
The transformation of the means of production from cottage industry to large scale commercial manufacturing	Industrial Revolution
The percentage by which a population grows in a year	Natural increase rate
A type of graph that shows information about a population by age and gender	Population pyramid
The number of years a newborn can expect to live	Life expectancy
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people in a country	Crude death rate
The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society	Crude birth rate
Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition	Epidemiologic transition
The number of years it takes for a population to increase by one hundred percent	Doubling time
The total population divided by the amount of arable land.	Physiological density
The number of people who are too young or old to work.	Dependency ratio
A disease that covers a wide area and affects very high proportion of the population	Pandemic
The portion of the earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement	Ecumene

Created by: Bramble on 2011-04-30

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Chapter 2 KTs

Chapter 2 Key Terms Rubenstein