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Geo Terms 2

TermDefinition
Demography The scientific study of population characteristics
Overpopulation The total number of people on Earth and the relationship between the number of people and the availability of resources
Ecumene The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement
Arithmetic Density The total number of people divided by total land area
Physiological Density The number of people supported by a unit of area of arable land
Crude Birth Rate (CBR) The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society
Crude Death Rate (CDR) The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in society
Natural Increase Rate (NIR) The percentage by which a population grows in a year
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) To measure the number of children a woman will have throughout her child bearing years
Infant mortality Rate (IMR) The annual number of deaths of infants
Doubling Time The number of years needed to double the population
Demographic Transition A process of change in a society's population
Agricultural Revolution The time human beings first domesticated plants
Industrial Revolution Major improvements in the industrial technology
Medical Revolution Improved medical practices
Zero Population Growth (ZPG) A state in which a population is maintained at a constant level because the number of deaths is exactly offset by the number of births
Population Pyramid A country's population can be displayed by age and gender groups on a bar graph
Dependency Ratio The number of people who are too young or too old to work
Sex Ratio The number of males per hundred females in the population
Epidemiologic Transition Distinctive causes of death in each stage of demographic transition
Epidemiology The branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people
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