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Chapter 2 Vocab AP G
Chapter 2 Vocabulary AP Human Geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| arithmetic density | is the total number of objects in an area |
| agricultural density | the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
| census | a complete enumeration of a population |
| crude birth rate | the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society |
| crude death rate | the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
| demographic transition | the process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth rate and death rates and low rate of increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low natural increase, and higher total population |
| demography | the scientific study of population characteristics |
| dependency ratio | the number of people under age 15 and over 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force |
| doubling time | is the number of years needed to double a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
| ecumene | the proportion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
| epidemiological transition | medical researchers have identified _____________ ___________ focuses on distinctive health threats in each stage of the demographic transition |
| epidemiology | is the branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease that are prevalent among a population at a special time and are produced by some special causes not generally presented in the affected locality |
| industrial revolution | began in the United Kingdom in the late eighteenth century and diffused to the European continent and North America during the nineteenth century |
| infant mortality rate | is the annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births |
| life expectancy | at birth measures the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live at current mortality levels |
| medical revolution | the late twentieth- century push of developing countries into stage two |
| natural increase rate | is the percentage by which a population grows in a year |
| overpopulation | a situation in which the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
| pandemic | is a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population |
| physiological density | the number of people supported by a unit area of arable land called ___________ ____________ |
| population pyramid | a country's distinctive population structure can be displayed on a bar graph called _____________ ______________ |
| sex ratio | the number of males per 100 females in the population |
| zero population growth | a country reaches stage 4 of the demographic transition when the CBR declines to the point where it equals the CDR and the NIR approaches zero |
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