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DTM Vocab

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Demographic Transition Model (DTM)   Created By warren Thompson  
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Industrial   of, relating to, or characterized by industry  
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Industrial Revolution   was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.  
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Crude Birth Rate   The crude birth rate is the number of live births occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year, per 1,000 mid-year total population of the given geographical area during the same year.  
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Crude Death Rate   The crude death rate is the number of deaths occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year, per 1,000 mid-year total population of the given geographical area during the same year.  
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Natural Increase Rate   In demographics, the rate of natural increase (RNI) is the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population.  
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Total Fertility Rate   The Total Fertility Rate (TFR), sometimes also called the fertility rate, period total fertility rate (PTFR) or total period fertility rate (TPFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if:  
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Infant Mortality Rate   The infant mortality rate is an estimate of the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births.  
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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.  
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Primary Economic Activity   The primary sector of the economy is the sector of an economy making direct use of natural resources.  
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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.  
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Subsistence Farming   Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families.  
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Agriculture Production   The science of cultivating land, producing crops, and raising livestock. Agriculture definition. Tilling the ground (Gen. 2:15; 4:2, 3, 12) and rearing cattle were the chief employments in ancient times.  
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Replacement Babies   babies that replace the babies that die before their 1st birthday.  
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Famine   extreme scarcity of food.  
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Epidemic   a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.  
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Pandemic   of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.  
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Agriculture Revolution   An agricultural revolution or agrarian revolution is a period of transition from the pre-agricultural period characterized by a Paleolithic diet, into an agricultural period characterized by a diet of cultivated foods;  
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Mechanization   Mechanization or mechanization (BE) is the process of doing work with machinery. In an early engineering text a machine is defined as follows:  
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The Medical Revolution   Medical Revolution Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa.  
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