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Human Geography AP Ch 2. Vocab - Statistics

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Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support carrying capacity
60%
The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people. crude death rate
56%
The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. crude birth rate
53%
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture agricultural density
47%
government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase anti natalist policies
40%
The total number of people divided by the total land area. arithmetic density
40%
The percentage of children who die before their first birthday within a particular area or country. infant mortality rate
40%
The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years. total fertility rate
40%
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%
A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live life expectancy
26%
a population in which the percentage that is age 65 and older is increasing relative to other age groups aging population
23%
Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring contraception
23%
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%
The scientific study of population characteristics. demography
23%
a complete enumeration of a people census
19%
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%
The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. physiological density
19%
A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. population pyramid
19%
Government policies to increase the rate of natural increase pro natalist policies
19%
The number of males per 100 females in the population. sex-ratio
19%
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%
The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. ecumene
14%
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living. overpopulation
9%
a curve that depicts logistic growth; shape of an "S." The leveling off of a J-Curve exponential growth. s-curve
9%
a growth curve that depicts exponential growth j-curve
7%
population growth rate rate of natural increase
7%
A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. zero population growth
7%
distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition epidemiologic transition model
5%
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%
Advocacy of population control programs to ensure enough resources for current and future populations. neo-malthusian
2%
population change drives the intensity of agricultural production bosrup theory
0%
there will be a disaster for humanity due to over population erlich theory
0%
A cluster of people living in the same area. population agglomerations
0%
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%
the total fertility rate (TFR) that maintains a stable population size replacement fertility
0%
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