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Environmental Science: Chapter 6 Vocab
| Term | Definition | Personal Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural Carrying Capacity | The limit on population growth that would allow most people in an area or the world to live in reasonable comfort and freedom without impairing the ability of the planet to sustain future generations | The limit to population growth that would allow people to live comfortably without harming the Earth's abilities to provide for future generations |
| Crude Birth Rate | Births per thousand people in a population in a given year | Births per thousand people |
| Crude Death Rate | Deaths per thousand people in a population in a given year | Deaths per thousand people |
| Fertility Rate | The number of children born to a woman during her lifetime | Number of children a woman has in her lifetime |
| Replacement-Level Fertility Rate | The average number of children that couples in a population must bear in order to replace themselves | Average number of children a couple has to have in order to replace them (in population) |
| Total Fertility Rate (TFR) | The average number of children born to a woman in a population during their reproductive years | Average number of children a woman has during her reproductive years |
| Infant Mortality Rate | The number of children per thousand live births who die before one year of age | Number of children per thousand who die before age 1 |
| Life Expectancy | The average number of year a newborn can expect to live | How long a baby is expected to live |
| Migration | The movement of people into and out of specific geographic areas | The immigration and emigration of people in an area |
| Age Structure | The distribution of males and females among age groups in a population | The distribution of male and females over all age groups |
| Demographic Transition (Model) | As countries become industrialized, first their death rates and then their birth rates decline | Model explaining a countries transition from having high birth and death rates to having low birth and death rates |
| Family Planning | Educational and clinical services that help couples choose how many children to have and when to have them | Services that help families plan how many children to have and when |
| Population Change | The number of people entering a population minus the number of people leaving it, measured over a certain period of time | In-Out=Change |
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