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DTM Vocab

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Demographic Transition Model   Explains how & why population grows at different rates around the word refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops  
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Industrial   Having Highly Developed Industries  
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Industrial Revolution   The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation  
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Crude Birth Rate   The birth rate is the total number of births per 1000 of a population each year  
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Crude Death Rate   Measure of the number of deaths in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.  
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Natural Increase   The percentage growth of a population over a year as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population.  
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Total Fertility Rate   Number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime bearing years.  
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Infant Mortality Rate   infant death rate: the death rate during the first year of life  
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Zero Population Growth   The maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population.  
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Primary Economic Activity   economy making direct use of natural resources  
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Infrastructure   the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise  
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Subsistence Farming   farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing  
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Agricultural Production   Cultivating land, producing crops, and raising livestock for sustenance and economic gain  
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Replacement Babies   Women had an increase of births because babies would probably not make it to their first year as replacements/substitutes.  
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Famine   extreme scarcity of food  
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Epidemic   A widespread of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time  
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Pandemic   Disease prevalent over a whole country or the world  
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Agricultural revolution   The development of crop and animal raising as a food source among human communities to supplement hunting and gathering.  
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Mechanization   the changing of a process to machines than humans and animals  
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The Medical Revolution   the leap of medical knowledge in stage 2 of the demographic transition  
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