| Question |
Answer |
| More Developed Countries |
also known as a relatively developed country or a developed country a country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of developement |
| overpopulation |
the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
| population density |
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| crude birth rate (cbr) |
the total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society |
| doubling time |
the number of years needed to double a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
| life expectancy |
the average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social economic and medicall conditions. life expectancy at birth is the avg number of years a newborn infant can expect to live. |
| agricultural revolution |
the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering. |
| zero population growth |
a decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.
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| Sex ratio |
the number of males per 100 females in the population
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| Pandemic |
disease that occur over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
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| Cholera |
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| tuberculosis |
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| less developed countries |
also known as a developing country, a country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development. |
| ecumene |
the portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement
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| physiological density |
the number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture
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| crude death rate |
the total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in a society |
| total fertility rate |
the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years.
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| demographic transition |
the process of change in a society population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of nat increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of nat increase and a higher total pop.
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| industrial revolution |
a series of improvements in industrial tech that transformed the process of manufactoring goods.
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| population pyramids |
a bar graph representing the distribution of pop by age and sex
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| epidemiologic transition |
distinctive causes o death in each stage of the demographic transition
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| epidemiology |
branch of medical science concerned with the incidence distribution and control of disease that affect large number of people. |
| HIV/AIDS |
Deadly disease
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| SARS |
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| Demography |
the scientific study of population characteristics
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| arithmetic density |
the total number of people divided by the total land area
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| agricultural density |
the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of arable land. |
| natural increase rate |
the percentage growth of a pop in a year computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.
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| infant mortality rate |
the total number of deaths in a year amon infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society |
| stages of demographic transition |
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| medical revolution |
medical tech invented in europe and N.A that is diffused to the poorer countries of latin america, asia and africa. many disease have been treated and grant higher life epectancy |
| dependency ratio |
the number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force
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| stages of epidemiologic |
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| black plague |
pandemic throughout europe
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| malaria |
pandemic in africa
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| delayed degenerative diseases |
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