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Ch 2 Vocab. AP Geo
Vocabulary for chapter 2 of The cultural landscape an intro. to human geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agricultural density | ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
| Arithmetic density | total number of people divided by the total land area |
| Census | complete enumeration of a population |
| Crude birth rate (CBR) | total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in society |
| Crude death rate (CDR) | total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
| Demographic transition | process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase, and higher total population |
| Demography | scientific study of population characteristics |
| Dependency ratio | number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force |
| Doubling time | number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
| Ecumene | portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
| Epidemiologic transition | distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition |
| Epidemiology | branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases |
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