the population level that can be supported, given the quality of food, habitat, water and other life infrastructure present.
carry capacity
the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; it is expressed as a number of birth in a year to every 1,000 people alive in the society.
natality
the arrangement of a feature in space is distribution. Geographers identify the three man properties as density, concentration, and pattern.
population distribution
the number of people who are too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years.
dependency ratio
helps predict future problems with population such as overpopulation of a certain race or ethnicity (predicts the future of an area of the world)
population projection
the total number of people divided by total land area
arithmetic density
the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
agricultural revolution
medical technology invented in Europe and north America that is diffused into poorer countries of Latin America , Asia, and africa. improved medical practices have elimimated manh of the traditonal causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more peop
medical revolution
helps predict future problems within population such as overpopulation or underpopulation of a certain race or ethnicity (predicts the future of an area of the world)
population projection
it is the opposition to overpopulation and refers to a sharp drop or decrease in a regions population