Term | Definition |
Demographic Transition Model | Explains how & why population grows at different rates around the word refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops |
Industrial | Having Highly Developed Industries |
Industrial Revolution | The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation |
Crude Birth Rate | The birth rate is the total number of births per 1000 of a population each year |
Crude Death Rate | Measure of the number of deaths in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. |
Natural Increase | The percentage growth of a population over a year as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population. |
Total Fertility Rate | Number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime bearing years. |
Infant Mortality Rate | infant death rate: the death rate during the first year of life |
Zero Population Growth | The maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population. |
Primary Economic Activity | economy making direct use of natural resources |
Infrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise |
Subsistence Farming | farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing |
Agricultural Production | Cultivating land, producing crops, and raising livestock for sustenance and economic gain |
Replacement Babies | Women had an increase of births because babies would probably not make it to their first year as replacements/substitutes. |
Famine | extreme scarcity of food |
Epidemic | A widespread of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time |
Pandemic | Disease prevalent over a whole country or the world |
Agricultural revolution | The development of crop and animal raising as a food source among human communities to supplement hunting and gathering. |
Mechanization | the changing of a process to machines than humans and animals |
The Medical Revolution | the leap of medical knowledge in stage 2 of the demographic transition |