Human geo vocab unit 2

Human Migration

The permanent movement of people from one place to another

Arithmetic density

The total number of people per unit of land; also called crude density

Population density

Where people live in a geographic area

Subsistence Agriculture

An agricultural practice that provides crops or livestock to feed one’s family and close community using fewer mechanical resources and more people to care for test crops and livestock

Agricultural Density

The total number of farmers per unit or arable land

Landforms

Natural features of Earth’s surface

Population Distribution

The number of people occupying a unit of land

Physiological Density

The total number of people per unit of arable land

Temperate climates

A climate with moderate temperatures and adequate precipitation

Arable land

Land that can be used to grow crops

Carrying Capacity

The maximum population size that an environment can sustain

Sex ratio

The proportion of males to females in a population

Dependency Ratio

The number of people in a dependent age group divided by the number of people in the working-age group, multiplied by 100

TFR(total fertility rate)

The average number of children one woman in a given country or region will have during her childbearing years

Life expectancy

The average number of years a person is expected to live

CBR(crude birth rate)

The number of births in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population

Population pyramid

A graph that shows the age-sex distribution of a given population

Demographics

Data about the structures and characteristics of human population

IMR(Infant morality rate)

The number of deaths of children under the age of 1 per 1,000 live births

CDR(Crude Death Rate)

The number of deaths in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population

Fertility

The ability to produce children

Doubling time

The Number of years in which a population is growing at a certain rate would double

Urbanization

Urban growth and development

RNI(Rate of natural increase)

Rate at which a population grows as the result of the difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate

Overpopulation

Describing the theory related to the idea that population growth is unsustainable, and that the future population cannot be supported by the Earth’s Resources

Neo-Malthusian

A term used to describe the condition in which population growth outstrips the resources needed to support life

ETM(Epidemiological Transition Model)

A model that describes changes in fertility, morality, life expectancy, and population age distribution, largely as a result of changes in causes of death

DTM(Demographic Transition Model)

A model that represents shifts in the growth of the world’s population, based on population trends related to birth rate and death rate

Antinatalist

Describing attitudes of policies that discourage childbearing as a means of limiting population growth

Pronatalist

Describing attitudes or policies that encourage childbearing as a means of spurring population growth