| Question |
Answer |
| Demography |
The scientific study of population characteristics |
| Ecumene |
A portion of the Earth occupied by permanent human settlement |
| Arithmetic Density |
Total number of people divided by the total land area |
| Physiological Density |
Number of people per unit of land suitable for agriculture |
| Agricultural Density |
Number of farmers per unit of land suitable for agriculture |
| Crude Birth Rate (CBR) |
Total number of live births per year for every 1,000 people alive |
| Crude Death Rate (CDR) |
Total number of deaths per year for every 1,000 people alive |
| Natural Increase Rate (NIR) |
The percentage by which a population grows each year |
| Doubling Time |
Number of years needed to double a population |
| Infant Mortallity Rate (IMR) |
Annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1000 people in the population |
| Life Expectancy |
The average number of years a newborn can hope to live at birth |
| Demographic Transition |
Similar processes of change in society's population broken down into 4 stages |
| Agricultural Revolution |
Burst of population growth around 8000 B.C. where humans domesticated plants and animals. |
| Census |
A complete enumeration of a population. |
| Zero Population Growth (ZPG) |
When birth rate equals death rate |
| Population Pyramid |
Graphic that shows percentage of the total population by age group and gender |
| Dependency Ratio |
Ratio of the number of people to old or young to work compared to people in productive years |
| Sex Ratio |
Males to Females |
| Pandemic |
A disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a high proportion of the population |
| Total Fertility Rate (TFR) |
Average number of children a woman will have during childbearing years |
| Medical Revolution |
Late 20th century push of countries into stage 2 caused by new medical technology |
| Epidemiologic Transition |
Focuses on distinctive causes of death in each demographic transition model |
| Epidemiology |
Branch of science concerned with incidence, distribution, and control of disease. |
| Overpopulation |
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
| Industrial Revolution |
A conjunction of major industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and delivering them to market-1750 |
Weston Sandfort
on 2009-03-30
Biology Lab Midterm
