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FINAL TEST CH 15
DEmograhy- study of human population
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
05/04/2011

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Term
Crude birth rate
Definition
The number of live births in a given year for every 1,000 people in a population.
Term
 Fecundity
Definition
Max possible childbearing 
Term

 What is the equation for figuring out Crude Birth Rate?

 

Definition
Divide the number of live births in a year by the society's total population and multiply the results by 1000.
Term

 Is fertility high or low for the amish?

Asian Americans?

Definition

HIGH-amish

Low-asian Americans

Term
Mortality
Definition
The incidence of death in a country's population
Term

T/F 

Afiracn americans with 3x of burden of pvoerty as whites have an infant mortality rate  of 14.4 which is 2x that of white rate which is 5.4

Definition
TRE
Term
Migration
Definition
The movement of people into and out of a specified territory.
Term
 Measure of movement into a territory is In-migration rate and people out is called emigration rate.
Definition
True
Term
 What is the difference bW the in migration rate and the out-migration rate?
Definition
that is the net migration rate!
Term
What is the "push-pull" analogy?
Definition
Mean that where there is lack of jobs it pushes people to move from one areas as they are pulled to another place with more opportunities.
Term
 Can Migration be forced?
Definition
Yes it can me 
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 In gneral what is the cause of increased population in U.S. population compared to India's?
Definition

It is from grow  from immigration and natural increase

and for india its only from natural increases (poorerP

Term
 What was the sex ration for the U.S. in 2002 what was it for India
Definition

It was 96 males for ever 100 females

 

India- 107 males for 100 women.

Term
 What is the difference between The age sex pyramid of u.s. To mexico
Definition

WIDE AT BOTTOM REFLECTING HIGHER BIRHT RATES AND NARROWS QUICKLY BY WHAT WE WOULD CALL MIDDLE AGE DUE TO HIGHER MORALITY MEDIAN AGE 24 AND MEDIAN AGE FOR USE IS 34  Meanig that number of women are still in their childbearing years therefore mexico's crude birth rate (25) birth rate is twice our own 13.9 and 

annual growth rate is 2.1 compared to u.s. of 0.5%

Term
 What willl the world's population be in 2050
Definition
8 to 9 billion
Term
Transition theory
Definition
population patterns reflex a society's level of technology and development
Term
zero Population growth
Definition
 the level of reproduction that maintains population at a steady state.
Term
Urbanization
Definition
Is the concentration of Humanity into cities.
Term
Metrapolis
Definition
a large city that socially and economically dominates
Term
suburb
Definition
urban ares beyone the political boundaries of a city
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 Urban ecology
Definition
The study of the link between the physical and soial dimension of cities.
Term
Ecology
Definition
is the study of the interaction of living organisms and the natural enviroment
Term
Ecosystem 
Definition
system composed of the interaction of all living organisms and their natural enviroments
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