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AP Human Geo Ch 2
Intro to Human Geo The Cultural Landscape James M. Rubenstein
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agricultural Density | ratio of farmers to total amount of land suitable for agriculture:) |
| Agricultural Revolution | time when humans first domesticated plants & animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting & gathering |
| Arithmetic Density | total number of people divided by total amount of land |
| Census | a complete enumeration of a population |
| Crude Birth Rate | total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
| Crude Death Rate | total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
| Demographic Transition | process of change in a society’s population from a condition of hi CBR/CDR and lo NIR to a condition of lo CBR/CDR, low NIR, & a higher total population |
| Demography | scientific study of population characteristics |
| Dependency Ratio | number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compared to number of people active in the labor force |
| Doubling Time | number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
| Epidemiologic Transition | distinctive causes of death in each stage of demographic transition |
| Epidemiology | branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people |
| Ecumene | portion of Earth’s surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
| Industrial Revolution | series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods |
| Infant Mortality Rate | total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year for every 1,000 live births in a society |
| Life Expectancy | average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, & medical conditions |
| Medical Revolution | med tech invented in Europe & North America that diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, & Africa; improved med practices have elim. many of the trad. causes of death in poor countries & more people live longer healthy lives |
| Natural Increase Rate | the percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate |
| Overpopulation | number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
| Pandemic | disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affect a very high proportion of the population |
| Physiological Density | number of people per unit of area of arable land, land suitable for agriculture |
| Population Pyramid | bar graph representing the distribution of population by age & sex |
| Sex ratio | number of males per 100 females in the population |
| Total Fertility Rate | average number of children 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:) |
| Haley ROCKS! | True or False? |
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