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Chapter 2
Population
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Geography
9th Grade
11/02/2006

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Term
population density
Definition
measure of total population verse land size
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arithmetic population density
Definition
entire country, an average. vs. physiologic
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Key TFR
Definition
2.1
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demography
Definition
study of population
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overpopulation
Definition
too many people in relation to resources
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agricultural density
Definition
farmers per arable land
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What fraction of the world lives in China and India
Definition
1/3
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physiologic population density
Definition
total population vs. arable land
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population distribution
Definition
descriptions of locations of where people or groups live
Term
Where do people historically gather?
Definition
where food can be grown
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What are the four major population clusters?
Definition
east asia, south asia, western europe, and northeastern US
Term
what fraction of the world's population lives in east asia?
Definition
1/4
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What is the main economic source/population distribution in South Asia?
Definition
agriculture
Term
What is reflected in the european population cluster, that is different than the other 3?
Definition
coal fields
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What is the smallest of the four population clusters?
Definition
North AMerica
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megapolis
Definition
huge urban clusters
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ecumene
Definition
portion of the earth occupied by permanent human settlement.
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Malthus
Definition
worried that the poulation was growing exponentially while resources were growing linearly
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Ehrlich
Definition
Warned of population bomb, because pop. was outpacing food production.
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carrying capacity
Definition
ability of a resource base to sustain a population
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natural increase
Definition
births - deaths
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doubling time
Definition
how long it takes a country's population to double
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Growth rates are directly related to ________.
Definition
the amount of education for women
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crude birth rate
Definition
total number of live births per year per 1000 people
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crude death rate
Definition
total number of deaths per year per 1000 people
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What are the 5 stages of the epidemiological transition?
Definition
1. Plague, famine, etc.
2. Receding pandemics
3. Degenerative and human created diseases
4. Delayed degenerative
5. Invectios diseases reimerge
Term
SARS
Definition
Severe acute respiration syndrome
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What are the 4 stages of the demographic transition?
Definition
1. Low Growth - high birth and death rates
2. High Growth - Falling death rates, high birth rates, triggered by better sanitation
3. Moderate Growth - Both birth and death rates are declining, triggered by urbanization
4. Low Groth?Stationary - low birth and death rates
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pronatalist
Definition
encourages population growth
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infant mortality rate
Definition
a baby's death in the first year
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child mortality rate
Definition
the deaths of children ages 1-5
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Life expectancy
Definition
the number of years a person is expected to live.
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antinatalist
Definition
discourages population growth
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expansive population policie
Definition
encourage big families
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eugenic population policies
Definition
used to favor certain racial or cultural groups.
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