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AP environmental science
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Environmental Studies
9th Grade
12/07/2008

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Population Change

Definition
is calculated by subtracting the number of ppl leaving(emigration/death) from the number of entering (immigration/birth)
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Crude Birth Rate
Definition
The number of live births per 1,000 ppl in a population any given year
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Crude Death Rate
Definition
The number of deaths per 1,000 ppl in a population any given year
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Immigration

Definition
migration of ppl into a country or area to take up permanent residence
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Emigration

Definition
migration of people out of a country to leave their previous residence
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Replacement Level fertility
Definition

number of children a couple must have to replace themselves

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Total fertility Rate

Definition
an estimate of the average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years if between ages of 15 and she bears children at the same rate as woman did this year
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Demographic Transition
Definition

as countries become industrialized, first death rates and then birth rates decline

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Infant Mortality Rate
Definition
number of babies out of  every 1,000 born who die before their first birthday
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Life Expectancy

Definition
average number of years a newborn infant can be expected to live
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 Age Structure Diagram

Definition

the proportion of the population/gender at each age level

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Baby Boom Generation
Definition

following the great depression and WWII birth rates sky rocketed, 79 million ppl were added to the U.S. population

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Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Definition
State in which the birth rate + immigration equals the death rate + emigration, so the population of a geographic area is no longer increasing
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