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Chapter 2 KTs
Chapter 2 Key Terms Rubenstein
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The diffusion of medical technology that resulted in longer life expectancy in less developed countries | Medical revolution |
| The number of males per hundred females | Sex ratio |
| When the crude birth rate is the same as the crude death rate | Zero population growth |
| The number of infants that die before their first birthday per one thousand live births | Infant mortality rate |
| The total number of people divided by the total land area | Arithmetic density |
| The ratio of farmers per unit of arable land. | Agricultural density |
| The time when humans first domesticated plants and animals | Agricultural revolution |
| The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years | Total fertility rate |
| The transformation of the means of production from cottage industry to large scale commercial manufacturing | Industrial Revolution |
| The percentage by which a population grows in a year | Natural increase rate |
| A type of graph that shows information about a population by age and gender | Population pyramid |
| The number of years a newborn can expect to live | Life expectancy |
| The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people in a country | Crude death rate |
| The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society | Crude birth rate |
| Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition | Epidemiologic transition |
| The number of years it takes for a population to increase by one hundred percent | Doubling time |
| The total population divided by the amount of arable land. | Physiological density |
| The number of people who are too young or old to work. | Dependency ratio |
| A disease that covers a wide area and affects very high proportion of the population | Pandemic |
| The portion of the earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement | Ecumene |