Question | Answer |
Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied on hunting and gathering |
Doubling time | The estimated time it will take for a societies population to double |
Natural increase rate | growth percentage of a population, CBR-CDR |
Census | a complete enumeration of a population |
Crude birth rate | number of babies being born per 1000 people |
Crude death rate | number of deaths per 1000 people |
Demographic transition | The process of change in a societies population form high CBR and CDR to low CBR and CDR, and higher total population |
Demography | the study of human populations |
Dependency Ratio | The number of people under 14 and over 65 compared to those active in the work force |
Ecumene | the portion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human occupation |
Epidemiological transition | distinct causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition |
Epidemiology | Branch of medical science that concerns itself with incidence, distribution and control of human diseases |
Industrial Revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods |
Infant mortality Rate | IMR-number of death of those under 1 for every 1000 live births |
Life expectancy | the average age someone can expect to live to when they are born |
Medical Revolution | when medical technologies from developed nations diffused into Latin America, Africa and Asia. |
Overpopulation | When the number of people in an area exceeds the environments carrying capacity |
Pandemic | disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects high proportions of the populations |
Population pyramid | a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex |
Sex Ratio | the number of males per 100 females in population |
Total Fertility Rate | TFR-Average number of births per woman |
Zero population growth | ZPG-A decline of the TFR to the point that NIR reaches zero |