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Rubenstien Chp 2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Demography | The scientific study of population characteristics |
| Ecumene | A portion of the Earth occupied by permanent human settlement |
| Arithmetic Density | Toatal number of people divied by total land area |
| Physiological Density | Number of people per unit of land suitable for agriculture |
| Agricultural Density | Number of farmers per unit of land suitable for agriculture |
| Crude Birth Rate(CBR) | Total number of live births per year for every 1000 people alive |
| Crude Death Rate(CDR) | Total number of deaths per 1000 people alive |
| Natural Increase Rate(NIR) | The percentage by which a population grows each year |
| Doubling Time | Number of years needed to double a population |
| Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) | Annual number of deaths of infant under 1 year of age per 1000 people in the population |
| Life Expectancy | The average number of years a newborn can hope to live at birth |
| Demographic Transition | Similar processes of change in society's population broken down into 4 stages |
| Agricultural Revolution | Burst of population growth around 8000BC where humans domesticated plants and animals |
| Census | A complete enumeration of a population |
| Zero Population Growth(ZPG) | When birth rate equals death rate |
| Population Pyramid | Graphic thast shows percentage of the total population by age group and gender |
| Dependency Ratio | Ratio of the number of people too old or too young to work compared to people in their productive year |
| Sex Ratio | Males to Females |
| Pandemic | A disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a high proportion of the population |
| Total Fertility Rate(TFR) | Average number of children a women will have during her childbearing years. |
| Medical Revolution | Late 20th century push of countries into stage 2 caused by new medical technology |
| Epidemiologic Transition | Focuses on distinctive causes of death in each deomgraphic transition model |
| Epidemiology | BRanch of science concered with incidence, distribution, and control of diseases |
| Overpopulation | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
| Industrial Revolution | A conjuntionof major industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and delivering them to markets- 1750 |
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