Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

The average number of children born to a woman of childbearing age.

A measure of total population relative to land size.

Arithmetic Population Density

The population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area.

The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.

Population Distribution

A description of a location on Earth's surface where an individual or group lives.

A map in which one dot represents a certain number of a population.

A term used to designate combined supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world.

A periodic and official count of a country's population.

The time required for a population to double in size.

The rapid growth of the world's human population density during the past century.

The difference between the number of births and the number of deaths.

The number of live births per year per thousand people in the population.

The number of deaths per year per thousand people.

Demographic Transition

The shift in population growth.

Stationary Population Level

The level at which a national population ceases to grow.

Population Composition

The structure of a population in terms of age, sex, and other properties such as marital status and education.

Infant Mortality Rate

Recorded as a baby's death during the first year following its birth per thousand births.

Recording the deaths of children between the ages of 1-5.

The number of years on average someone may expect to remain alive.

A debilitating disease that weakens the immune system, spread through an exchange of bodily fluids.

The afflictions of middle and old age reflecting higher life expectancies.

Expansion Population Policies

Ideological, anticapitalist driven policies that encourage large families and raise the rates of natural increase.

Eugenic Population Policies

Policies designed to favor one racial or cultural sector of the population over the other.

Restrictive Population Policies

Policies ranging from toleration of officially unapproved means of birth control to outright prohibition of large families.

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Study Guide 2

AP Human Geo Vocab

Term	Definition
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)	The average number of children born to a woman of childbearing age.
Population Density	A measure of total population relative to land size.
Arithmetic Population Density	The population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area.
Physiologic Density	The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.
Population Distribution	A description of a location on Earth's surface where an individual or group lives.
Dot Map	A map in which one dot represents a certain number of a population.
Megalopolis	A term used to designate combined supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world.
Census	A periodic and official count of a country's population.
Doubling Time	The time required for a population to double in size.
Population Explosion	The rapid growth of the world's human population density during the past century.
Natural Increase	The difference between the number of births and the number of deaths.
Crude Birth Rate	The number of live births per year per thousand people in the population.
Crude Death Rate	The number of deaths per year per thousand people.
Demographic Transition	The shift in population growth.
Stationary Population Level	The level at which a national population ceases to grow.
Population Composition	The structure of a population in terms of age, sex, and other properties such as marital status and education.
Infant Mortality Rate	Recorded as a baby's death during the first year following its birth per thousand births.
Child Mortality Rate	Recording the deaths of children between the ages of 1-5.
Life Expectancy	The number of years on average someone may expect to remain alive.
AIDS	A debilitating disease that weakens the immune system, spread through an exchange of bodily fluids.
Chronic Diseases	The afflictions of middle and old age reflecting higher life expectancies.
Expansion Population Policies	Ideological, anticapitalist driven policies that encourage large families and raise the rates of natural increase.
Eugenic Population Policies	Policies designed to favor one racial or cultural sector of the population over the other.
Restrictive Population Policies	Policies ranging from toleration of officially unapproved means of birth control to outright prohibition of large families.

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