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APHG CH. 2 VOCAB
ENGLISH 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agricultural density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
| Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area |
| Census | A complete enumeration of an area. |
| Crude birth rate (CBR) | The total number of live births in a year for every thousand people live in the society |
| Crude death rate (CDR) | The total number of deaths in a year for every thousand people live in society. |
| Demographic transition | The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and a low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates low rate of natural increase and higher total population |
| Demography | The scientific study of population characteristics |
| Dependency ratio | The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people alive in the labor force |
| Doubling time | The number of years needed to double-a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
| Ecumene | The portion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. |
| Epidemiologic translation | Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition |
| Epidemiology | 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 present in the affected locality |
| Industrial revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods |
| Infant mortality rates (IMR) | the total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for every 1000 live births in a society |
| Life expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social economic and medical conditions life expect expectancy at Birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live |
| Medical revolution | Medical Technology invented in Europe in North America that has diffused to the poor countries in Latin America Asia and Africa improve medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poor countries and enable more people to l |
| Natural increase rate (NIR) | The percentage growth of a population in a year computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate |
| Overpopulation | A situation in which the number of people in the area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
| Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population |
| Physiological density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land which is |
| Population density | A bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex |
| Sex ratio | The number of males per 100 females in a population |
| Total fertility rate (TFR) | The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years |
| Zero population growth | a decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero |
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