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hgap vocab part1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The makeup of the population by age and sex as well as by ethnic, racial, incoe, and educational background | Population Composition |
| A phenomenon in which a culture demonstrates a marked preference for males | Androcentrism |
| A country with an advanced economy and a high standard of living | Developed Country |
| States located in the northern and midwestern parts of the country | Snow Belt |
| The average number of people per unit of land area (usually per square mile or kilometer) | Arithmetic Density |
| Designed to boost fertility rates and ultimately population growth | Pronatalist Policies |
| The pattern in which humans are spread out on Earth's surface | Population Distribution |
| The number of deaths per year per 1000 people | Crude Death Rate |
| A city with more than 10 million residents | Megacity |
| Increase in food production resulting from the use of new farming methods | Boserup Effect |
| The age that divides a population into 2 halves so that 1 half is younger than this age and the other half is older | Median Age |
| A term derived from the name Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist and cleric, to mean either "of or relating to Malthus's theory" or "a follower of Malthus" | Malthusian |
| The number of dependents in a population that each 100 working-age people (ages 15 to 64) must support | Dependency Ratio |
| The number of years it takes for a population to double in size | Doubling Time |
| How CBR and CDR as well as the resulting RNI change over time as countries go through industrialization and urbanization | Demographic Transition Model |
| The degree to equality between men and women with respect to access to and control over both physical and social resources in the family, community or society at large | Women's Status |
| A CBR between 10 and 20 births per 1000 people | Low Birth Rate |
| The number of elderly dependents in a population (usually people older than 64 years of age) that every 100 working-age people must support | Elderly Dependency Ratio |
| A CBR of more than 30 per 1000 people | High Birth Rate |
| The balancing point given the distribution of population | Mean Center of Population |
| People born between 1965 and 1980 and who are now in their prime working years | Generation X |
| The period in which human activities have had the dominant influence on the environment | Anthropocene |
| Occurs when the human population exceeds the food supply | Overpopulation |
| People who today subscribe to the Malthusian view of population | Neo-Malthusians |
| A city with more than 20 million residents | Metacity |
| The average number of children needed to replace both parents and stabilize population over time | Replacement Level Fertility |
| The number of farmers per unit of arable land | Agricultural Density |
| The number of young dependents in a population (usually people younger than 15 years of age) that every 100 working-age people must support | Youth Dependency Ratio |
| People born after the turn of the 21st century | Generation Z |
| People born from 1946 to 1964 during the post-World war II uptick in birth rate | Baby Boomers |
| The average number of people per unit area (a square mile or kilometer) of arable land | Physiological Density |
| A massive piece of land of Earth's surface that consists of Europe, with just under 10% of the human population, and Asia, which accounts for almost 60% of humanity. | Eurasia |
| A tool for calculating the doubling time of a population by dividing 70 by a country's RNI | Rule of 70 |
| The ratio of the number of men to number of women in a population | Sex Ratio |
| People who disagree with the Malthusian view on population and resources | Anti-Malthusians |
| A very useful graphic device for comparing age and sex structure | Population Pyramid |
| Culturally specific notions of what it means to be a man or woman | Gender Roles |
| A measure of how many infants die within the 1st year of their life per 1000 live births | Infant Mortality Rate |
| Seeks to explain how changes in health services and living standards affect patterns of disease | Epidemiological Transition Theory |
| The method of calculating total population of a country or place based on natural increase and migration over a period of time (usually a year) | Demographic Equation |
| Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rates | Antinatalist Policies |
| The average number of people per unit of land area | Population Density |
| A country that is of relatively low income or economically poorer that developed countries | Developing Country |
| Land available for cultivation | Arable Land |
| Refers to the breakdown of a population into different age groups or cohorts | Age Structure |
| Groups of people who were born around the same time and share some common traits due to the cultural and societal influences they shared as they grew up | Generations |
| The portion of Earth's surface with permanent human settlement | Ecumene |
| A population of a country or place that ages a the number or proportion of its elderly people increases | Ageing Population |
| The number of people a particular environment or Earth as a whole can support on a sustainable basis | Carrying Capacity |
| The statistical study of population and its change | Demography |
| A branch of medicine that studies the distribution, determinants, and control of diseases and other health conditions, such as tobacco use and sedentary lifestyle | Epidemiology |
| The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy | Human Well-Being |
| Deaths of children under five years of age | Child Mortality |
| A disease that causes deterioration over time, such as cancer, heart disease, and stroke | Degenerative Disease |
| States in coastal areas and the South and Southwest | Sun Belt |
| The difference between the number of births and deaths in a given year, when expressed as a percentage of total population | rate of natural increase |
| The increased autonomy of women to make choices and shape their lives | women's empowerment |
| People who were born between 1981 and 2000; often referred to as millennials | generation y |
| When a country has the same number of births and deaths in a given year | zero population growth |
| The average number of children born per woman during her reproductive lifetime, considered to be from 15 to 49 years of age | total fertility rate |
| A CBR between 20 and 30 births per 1000 people | transitional birth rate |
| The average number of births per 1000 people; the traditional way of measuring birth rates | crude birth rate |
| Heavily populated areas that illustrate the unevenness in global population distribution | population clusters |
| The practice of killing infants | infanticide |
| The number of years a person can expect to live from birth | life expectancy |
Created by:
vasundhara.varadarajan