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Human Geography AP Ch 2. Vocab - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 64 times
- The average score is 7 of 35
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support | carrying capacity | 60%
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| The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people. | crude death rate | 56%
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| The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. | crude birth rate | 53%
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| The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture | agricultural density | 47%
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| government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase | anti natalist policies | 40%
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| The total number of people divided by the total land area. | arithmetic density | 40%
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| The percentage of children who die before their first birthday within a particular area or country. | infant mortality rate | 40%
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| The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years. | total fertility rate | 40%
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| The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force | dependency ratio | 35%
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| A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live | life expectancy | 26%
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| a population in which the percentage that is age 65 and older is increasing relative to other age groups | aging population | 23%
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| Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring | contraception | 23%
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| A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time. | demographic transition model | 23%
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| The scientific study of population characteristics. | demography | 23%
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| a complete enumeration of a people | census | 19%
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| Starvation is the inevitable result of population growth, because the population increases at a geometric rate while food supply can only increase arithmetically | malthusian theory | 19%
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| The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | physiological density | 19%
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| A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. | population pyramid | 19%
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| Government policies to increase the rate of natural increase | pro natalist policies | 19%
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| The number of males per 100 females in the population. | sex-ratio | 19%
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| A figure that describes the number of children that die between the first and fifth years of their lives in a given population | child mortality rate | 16%
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| The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. | ecumene | 14%
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| The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living. | overpopulation | 9%
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| a curve that depicts logistic growth; shape of an "S." The leveling off of a J-Curve exponential growth. | s-curve | 9%
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| a growth curve that depicts exponential growth | j-curve | 7%
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| population growth rate | rate of natural increase | 7%
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| A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. | zero population growth | 7%
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| distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition | epidemiologic transition model | 5%
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| this is the tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution. This is important because once this happens a country moves to a different stage in the demographic transition model. | demographic momentum | 2%
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| Advocacy of population control programs to ensure enough resources for current and future populations. | neo-malthusian | 2%
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| population change drives the intensity of agricultural production | bosrup theory | 0%
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| there will be a disaster for humanity due to over population | erlich theory | 0%
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| A cluster of people living in the same area. | population agglomerations | 0%
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| The number of years it takes a population to double; calculated by dividing the number 72 by the rate of natural increase | population doubling time | 0%
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| the total fertility rate (TFR) that maintains a stable population size | replacement fertility | 0%
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