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Population
Population Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture | Agricultural density |
| The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | Agricultural revolution |
| The total number of people divided by the total land area | Arithmetic density |
| A complete enumeration of a population | Census |
| The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society | Crude birth rate (CBR) |
| The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society | Crude death rate (CDR) |
| The process of change in a society's population from high CBR & CDR to low CBR & CDR | Demographic transition |
| The scientific study of population characteristics | Demography |
| The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force | Dependency ratio |
| The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase | Doubling time |
| The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement | Ecumene |
| Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition | Epidemiologic transition |
| A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods | Industrial Revolution |
| The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society | Infant mortality rate (IMR) |
| The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions | Life expectancy |
| Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa | Medical revolution |
| The percentage growth of a population in a year; CBR - CDR | Natural increase rate (NIR) |
| The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living | Overpopulation |
| Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population | Pandemic |
| The number of people per unit of area of arable land which is suitable for agriculture | Physiological density |
| A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex | Population pyramid |
| The number of males per 100 females in the population | Sex ratio |
| English economist who argued that the world's rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food supplies | Thomas Malthus |
| The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years | Total fertility rate (TFR) |
| A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero | Zero population growth |
| The highest crude death rates are found in which stage of the demographic transition? | Stage 1 |
| Rapidly declining crude death rates are found in which stage of the demographic transition? | Stage 2 |
| The lowest crude birth rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition? | Stage 4 |
| Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that both have | low growth rates |
| Besides the recent Ebola outbreak, the most lethal epidemic in recent years has been | AIDS |
| Prenatal gender screening followed by a possible termination of pregnancy is known as | sex selection |
| Country that has had a 1 child policy in place since 1979 | China |
| The current world population is approximately | 7.2 billion |
| The country with the highest fertility rate in the world is | Niger |
| Half of the world's people live in | cities |
| About how many people are added annually to the world's population? | 80 million |
| Region of North America that is the most densely populated | Northeast |
| For a country to maintain its level of population, it needs a fertility rate of | 2.1 |
| Land suited for agriculture is called | arable land |
| Life expectancy is lowest on average in this part of the world | Africa |
| __________________ of the world's population is clustered in East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe | Two-thirds |
| This country is experiencing a population decline | Japan |
| This country is expected to be the world's most populous in 2030 | India |
| The Sahara and Gobi are part of the world's non-ecumene because they are | too dry |
| The Himalayas and Andes are part of the world's non-ecumene because they are | too high |
| The Amazon and Congo are part of the world's non-ecumene because they are | too wet |
| Northern Canada and Antarctica are part of the world's non-ecumene because they are | too cold |
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