Ch2/3 Rubenstein Vocab
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| Demography | The scientific study of population characteristics
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| Ecumene | A portion of the Earth occupied by permanent human settlement
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| Arithmetic Density | Total number of people divided by the total land area
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| Physiological Density | Number of people per unit of land suitable for agriculture
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| Agricultural Density | Number of farmers per unit of land suitable for agriculture
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| Crude Birth Rate (CBR) | Total number of live births per year for every 1,000 people alive
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| Crude Death Rate (CDR) | Total number of deaths per year for every 1,000 people alive
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| Natural Increase Rate (NIR) | The percentage by which a population grows each year
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| Doubling Time | Number of years needed to double a population
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| Infant Mortallity Rate (IMR) | Annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1000 people in the population
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| Life Expectancy | The average number of years a newborn can hope to live at birth
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| Demographic Transition | Similar processes of change in society's population broken down into 4 stages
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| Agricultural Revolution | Burst of population growth around 8000 B.C. where humans domesticated plants and animals.
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| Emigration | Migration FROM a location
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| Zero Population Growth (ZPG) | When birth rate equals death rate
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| Population Pyramid | Graphic that shows percentage of the total population by age group and gender
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| Dependency Ratio | Ratio of the number of people to old or young to work compared to people in productive years
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| Chain Migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives previously migrated there
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| Age-sex Distribution | percent of total population or population of each sex, at each age.
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| Total Fertility Rate (TFR) | Average number of children a woman will have during childbearing years
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| Medical Revolution | Late 20th century push of countries into stage 2 caused by new medical technology
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| Epidemiologic Transition | Focuses on distinctive causes of death in each demographic transition model
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| Immigration | Migration INTO a location
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| Overpopulation | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
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| Industrial Revolution | A conjunction of major industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and delivering them to market-1750
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| Carrying Capacity | The number of people a region can support based on amount of available resources
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| Neo-Malthusian | Supporter of Thomas Malthus's theory
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| Thomas Malthus | Proposed theory about population growth: population grows more rapidly than food supply.
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| Interregional Migration | Permanent movement within a particular country
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| International Migration | Permanent movement from one country to another
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| Intraregional Migration | Permanent movement within a region of a country
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| Net Migration | difference between the level of immigration and emigration
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| Pull factors | induces people to move into a new location
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| Push factors | induces people to move out of a location
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| Refugees | people who have been forced to migrate from their homes and cannot return because of fear of persecution of race, religion, nationality, membership in a group, or political opinion
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| Brain Drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people
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