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APHUGChapter3&4Vocab

TermDefinition
Agricultural density The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Antinatalist Describing attitudes or policies that discourage childbearing as a means of limiting population growth.
Arable land Land that can be used to grow crops.
Arithmetic density The total number of people per unit area of land; also called crude density.
Carrying capacity The maximum population size an environment can sustain.
Climate The long-term patterns of weather in a particular area.
Crude birth rate The number of births in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population.
Crude death rate The number of deaths in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population.
Demographic Transition Model A model representing shifts in the growth of world populations based on birth and death rates.
Demographics Data about the structures and characteristics of human populations.
Dependency Ratio The number of dependents (under 15 or 65+) divided by the working-age population, multiplied by 100.
Dispersed Spread out.
Doubling Time The number of years in which a population growing at a certain rate would double.
Epidemiological Transition Model A model describing changes in fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and age distribution caused by changing causes of death.
Fertility The ability to produce children.
Human Migration The permanent movement of a person from one place to another.
Infant mortality rate The number of deaths of children under the age of 1 per 1,000 live births.
Land degradation Long-term damage to the soil's ability to support life.
Landforms The natural features of Earth's surface.
Life expectancy The average number of years a person is expected to live.
Mortality Deaths as a component of population change.
Neo-Malthusian Describing the theory that population growth is unsustainable and will outstrip Earth's resources.
Overpopulation A condition in which population growth outstrips the resources needed to support life.
Physiological density The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Population Density The number of people occupying a unit of land.
Population Distribution Where people live in a geographic area.
Population Pyramids A graph showing the age-sex distribution of a given population.
Pronatalist Describing attitudes or policies that encourage childbearing to spur population growth.
Rate of natural increase The rate of population growth calculated by subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate.
Sex ratio The proportion of males to females in a population.
Subsistence agriculture Farming that provides crops or livestock to feed one's family and community using minimal machinery.
Temperate Climates A climate featuring moderate temperatures and adequate precipitation amounts.
Total fertility rate The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years (ages 15 to 49).
Urbanization Urban growth and development.
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