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Population Key Issue
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Demography | The study of demographics(social scientists often group populations into categories based on demographic variables. examples: * Age * Sex / Gender * Race/ Ethnicity * Education etc.) TIER 3 |
| Overpopulation | The lack of necessary resources to meet the needs of a population of a defined area. TIER 3 |
| Ecumene | Habitable land an area where humans can live TIER 3 |
| Arithmetic Density | Divides the entire population of a country by the total land area to come up with a population density for the country as whole. TIER 3 |
| Physiological Density | A more accurate way to measure a country's population density it only takes into account the land that is being used by humans. TIER 3 |
| Agricultural Density | The ratio if the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. TIER 3 |
| Crude Birth Rate | The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. TIER 3 |
| Crude Death Rate | The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society. TIER 3 |
| Natural Increase Rate | The percentage growth of a population in a year, calculated as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. TIER 3 |
| Doubling Time | The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase. TIER 3 |
| Total Fertility Rate | The average number of children a woman will have throughout the years. TIER 3 |
| Infant Mortality | The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society. TIER 3 |
| Life Expectancy | Measure of how long a person may live, based on the year of their birth, their current age. TIER 3 |
| Demographic Transition Model (DTM) | Which is a series of stages that a country goes through when transitioning from non-industrial to industrial. TIER 2 |
| Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering. TIER 2 |
| Industrial Revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. TIER 2 |
| Medical Revolution | Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives. TIER 2 |
| Zero Population Growth | A decline in the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. TIER 2 |
| Population Pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. TIER 2 |
| Primary Economic Activity | Involves sourcing or extracting natural resources from the land or bodies of water. TIER 2 |
| Infrastructure | The basic services and facilities needed for an area's economy to function. TIER 2 |
| Subsistence Farming | Farming that brings little or no profit to the farmer. TIER 2 |
| Mechanization | To do or operate by machinery, not by hand. TIER 2 |
| Replacement Babies | The first child you have to replace you after you die. TIER 2 |
| Famine | Extreme hunger; starvation. TIER 2 |
| Epidemiology | A branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population. TIER 2 |
| Epidemic | A contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely among the population in an area. TIER 2 |
| Pandemic | A widespread epidemic affecting a large part of the population including regions, etc. TIER 2 |
| Mechanization | To do or operate by machinery, not by hand. TIER 2 |
| Phenomenon | An observable fact or event. TIER 1 |
| Health Care | The field concerned with the maintenance. TIER 1 |
| Outliers | Is an observation point that is distant from other observations. |
| Family Planning | Program of limiting the size of families through the spacing or prevention of pregnancies, especially for economic reasons. TIER 1 |
| Contraceptives | Serving to prevent pregnancy. TIER 1 |
| Replacement Babies | The first child you have to replace you after you die. TIER |
| Economics | a science that deals with the making, distributing, selling and purchasing of goods and services. TIER 1 |
| Politics | the art or science of government. TIER 1 |
| Sociocultural | the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements TIER 2 |
| Advantageous | is a person, place, or thing which is favorable or better than most. TIER 1 |
| Alleviate | to make less severe. TIER 1 |
| Stabilization | to maintain at a given level or quantity TIER 1 |
| Education | The knowledge and skill obtained or developed by a learning process TIER 1 |
| Primary Education | covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten. TIER 1 |
| Secondary Education | the last four years of formal school, usually grades nine through grade twelve. TIER 1 |
| Higher Education | education beyond high school, especially at a college or university. TIER 1 |
| Gender Empowerment | measure of gender equality.TIER 1 |
| Integrated | to unite or combine. TIER 1 |
| Age Dependency Ratio | the ratio of dependents which include people younger than 15 or older than 64 to the working-age population which are those ages 15-64. TIER 2 |
| Sex Ratio | The proportion of males to females in a given population, usually expressed as the number of males per 100 females. TIER 2 |
| Baby Boomers | a person born in the years following World War II TIER 2 |
| Indicative | a sign or indication of something. TIER 1 |
| Urbanization | is a population shift from rural to urban areas, and the ways in which society adapts to the change. TIER 1 |
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