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Unit 2 APHG Dalton R
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Arithmetic Density | Compares population density; Example: comparing the U.S. to China |
| Physiological Density | How much arable land a country has. Example: How much farm land there is in Europe |
| Dot Distribution maps | Dots on the map represent people. Example: Dot map of the U.S. |
| Megalopolis | A huge urban environment. Example: New York |
| Census | A counting of everybody in the country. Example: A census of China |
| Doubling time | How fast a population doubles. Example: In 50 years the population of the world doubles |
| Natural increase | Difference between number of births and deaths in a country. Example: 5,000-1,000=4,000 |
| Crude Birth rate | Number of live births per year. Example:Births are 1,712,052 per year |
| Crude death rate | Number of deaths per year. Example:Deaths are 500,075 per year |
| Demographic transition | the four types of population growth. Example:Stage 1:low growth, Stage 2:High growth, Stage 3:Moderate growth, Stage 4:Stationary growth |
| Stationary Population level | The worlds population will eventually stabilize. Example:the world stalls at one billion people. |
| Population composition | The number of men and women in a country plus their ages. Example:Men age 42, women age 31 |
| Population pyramid | displays the percent of each age group in a population. Example a pyramid of russia |
| Infant mortality rate | Number of baby deaths in their first year of life. Example: 54,000 babies died this year |
| Child mortality rate | Child deaths in age groups 1-5. Example:7,00 children died this year |
| Life expectancy | Number of average years someone is expected to live. Example: Years 1-73 |
| Expansive population policies | Encourages large families and relies on natural increase. Example: A family of 5 or 6 |
| Eugenic population policies | Favors on sector of a population. Example: Nazism |
| Restrictive population policies | Use unofficial means of birth control or the one child policy. Example:China and the one child policy. |
| Neo Malthusians | Scholars who believe in malthus's theory of the population. Example: A professor at a university believes in malthus's theory. |
| Age-sex disrtibution | A model used in population that gives the ages of males and females in a population. Example:A model used on Britain. |
| Census tract | Small country subdivisions that are considered uniform in population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions. Example: A very rural country. |
| Dependency ratio | The ratio of people who are to old or to young to provide for themselves. Example: infants |
| Geodemoghraphy | Also known as Population geography. |
| Thomas Malthus | A geographer who claimed that population grows exponentially and food grows arithmetically. Example: his book Essay on the Principle of Population. |
| Total fertility rate | The average number of children born during her childbearing years. Example: The average number in a certain place could be two children. |
| Baby boom | A time after WW2 that encouraged high rates of marriage and fertility. Example: People having babies in the 1950's. |
| Cohort | A population group unified by common characteristics. Example: Common by age. |
| Emmigration | The process of moving out of a particular country. Example. People leaving Africa. |
| Immigration | The process of moving into a country. Example: People moving into the U.S. |
| Zero population growth | The population stabilizes and there is no population growth. Example: in 2250 the population will stabilize. |
| Baby bust | S time when fertility rate dropped between the 60's and 70's. Example: People marrying later in life. |
| Cotton belt | The south used to be known as this because of all the agriculture. Example: Cotton fields. |
| Exponential growth | Growth when a percentage of the population is added each year. Example:The baby boom. |
| Intervening obstacles | Any forces that limit human migration. Example: Selective migration. |
| Rust belt | The american north with all the industries. Example Chicago. |
| Carrying capacity | The largest number of people an environment can hold. Example: the max number of people in Cuba. |
| Demography | The study of human populations. Example: A demography professor. |
| Generation X | A named coined by Duoglas Coupland that described the generation between 65 and 80. Example: people born during that time |
| Involuntary migration | Migration in which the migrant decides where to go himself. Example: A migrant deciding to go to America. |
| Sun belt | The american sotheast and southwest which grew dramatically since WW2. Example: People keep going there so the place keeps growing. |
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