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Key Issues 1-4
Population Key Issues, Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Demography | the study of births, deaths, income, or knowledgement of diseases |
| Overpopulation | the number of people compared to the relevant resources |
| Ecumene | Land where people have their home and jobs areas that are occupied for economic purposes |
| Arithmetic Density | People/ area of land |
| Physiological Density | population/ area arable land |
| Agricultural Density | rural population/ area of arable land |
| Crude Birth Rate | amount of live births among the population of a given area |
| Crude Death Rate | amount of deaths among the population of a given area |
| Natural Increase Rate | the difference in the % of human birth compared to deaths |
| Doubling time | time and size doubles over time |
| Total Fertility Rate | % of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime |
| Infant Mortality Rate | An estimate of infant deaths compared to births |
| Life Expectancy | The average amount of time a human can live |
| Demographic Transition Model (DTM) | The balance between high birth rates and high death rates |
| Agricultural Revolution | a diet of cultivated foods |
| Industrial Revolution | the making of new products that could increase activation in human life |
| Medical Revolution | the making of medicaid that could or ha or will change mankind |
| Zero Population Growth | a constant rate of births and deaths |
| Population Pyramid | different age groups put in a pyramid to compare |
| Primary Economic Activity | activities where natural resources are brought from the ground |
| Infrastructure | physical structures of an area |
| Subsistence Farming | farming that provides enough food for the farmer and his/her family, not enough to sell or give out |
| Mechanization | to go from working with hands to using machines |
| Replacement Babies | a child who is conceived to replaced a deceased child |
| Famine | Extreme source of food |
| Epidemiology | medicine that deals with possible controls of diseases and other factors that deals with health |
| Epidemic | a quick occurrence of an infectious disease in a community during a certain time |
| Pandemic | a disease prevalent over a country or the world |
| Phenomenon | a fact that is observed to happen; a theory that is in need to be proven |
| Health care | the improvement of mental and physical health through medical services |
| Outliers | a person/thing situated away/ detached from the main body or system |
| Family Planning | the practice of controlling a number of children in a family between their births |
| Contraceptives | a drug or substance to stop pregnancy |
| Economics | knowledge concerned with the the up making, consumption, and transfer of wealth |
| Politics | activities associated with the government of a country or area, the debate or conflict among the people or parties having or hoping to achieve power |
| Sociocultural | the combination of social and cultural factors |
| Advantageous | involving or making circumstances that increase the % of success of beneficial effects |
| Alleviate | to make something less severe |
| Stabilization | to make something stable, steadfast or firm |
| Education | to receive or give knowledgeable facts or systematic instruction at a school or university |
| Primary Education | the first stage of education by teaching/ learning easy subjects (Elementary School & 6/7th grade of Middle) |
| Secondary Education | the last 4 years of formal teaching in either high school or 8th grade of middle school |
| Higher Education | Education in a college/university |
| Gender Empowerment | designed to measure of gender equality |
| Integrated | to be questioned or assaulted until getting the answered that someone looking for |
| Age dependency ratio | a ratio that tells people if they’re allowed somewhere or not |
| Sex Ratio | a ratio that determines whether or not a male or female is allowed in an area |
| Baby boomers | a person born in the years following WW2, which was the time of birth rates increasing |
| Indicative | a sign or indication of something |
| Urbanization | a population shift from rural to urban areas, and how society gets used to the change in the lifestyles |