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unit 2 population:
tabb human geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| baby boom | the time period 1946 to 1964 after war world 2 the largest population cohort in us history |
| baby bust | 1960 to 1970 after baby boom dramatic decrease in fertility rates |
| carrying capacity | the numver of people an area can substain without criticly straining the resources |
| cohort | a group of people sharing a common demographic expierence(ex.people born in certain year,our class) |
| crude birth rate | the total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in society. |
| crude death rate | the total number of death in a year for every 1000 people alive in society |
| demographic equation | the formula that calculates the population change(p^1+b-d+-nm=p^2) |
| demographic momentum | the growing population even after fertility rates slow |
| demographic transition | the process of change in a societys population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and 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 science study of population characteristics |
| dependency ratio | the number of people under the age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force |
| double time | the number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
| ecumene | the portion of earths surface occupied by permanet human settlement |
| epidemiological transition | distinctive cause of death in each stage of the demographhic transition |
| gendered space | genders are seperated9data from girls and boys) |
| generation X | generation 1990 to 2000 |
| infant mortality rate | the total numver of deaths in a year among infants under 1yr old for every 1000 live births in a society |
| J curve | a dramtic increase |
| life expectancy rate | the rate number of years an individual can be exspected to live, given current social,economic,and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live |
| maladaptation | adaptation that becomes less helpful more harmful(ex:global waring, climate change |
| thomas malthus | demagrother that came up with a theory that population will increase that wont be enough resources |
| mortality | crude death rate |
| natality | crude birth rate |
| natural increase rate | the percentage growth of a population in a year,computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate |
| overpopulation | the number pf people i an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a destinct standered of living |
| population pyramid | a bargrath representing the distribution of population by age and sex |
| total fertility rate | the adverage number of childern 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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