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