Population Ch. 2 Voc Word Scramble
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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 | |
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. |
Sex ratio | the number of males per 100 females in the population |
Pandemic | disease that occur over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population |
Cholera | |
tuberculosis | |
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 |
physiological density | the number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture |
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. |
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. |
industrial revolution | a series of improvements in industrial tech that transformed the process of manufactoring goods. |
population pyramids | a bar graph representing the distribution of pop by age and sex |
epidemiologic transition | distinctive causes o death in each stage of the demographic transition |
epidemiology | branch of medical science concerned with the incidence distribution and control of disease that affect large number of people. |
HIV/AIDS | Deadly disease |
SARS | |
Demography | the scientific study of population characteristics |
arithmetic density | the total number of people divided by the total land area |
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. |
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 | |
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 |
stages of epidemiologic | |
black plague | pandemic throughout europe |
malaria | pandemic in africa |
delayed degenerative diseases |
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