Chapter 3 | Patterns of Population

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Population distribution

Where people live in a geographic area

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Climate

The long-term patterns of weather in a particular area

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Temperate Climate

A climate with moderate temperatures and adequate precipitation amounts.

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Landforms

The natural features of Earth’s surface

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Human migration

The permanent movement of people from one place to another

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Population density

The number of people occupying a unit of land

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Arithmetic Density

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

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Physiological density

The total number of people per unit of arable land

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Arable land

Land that can be used to grow crops

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Agricultural density

The total number of farmers per unit of arable land

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Subsistence agriculture

An agricultural practice that provides crops or livestock for only the farmers’ families and close community

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Carrying capacity

The maximum population size an environment can sustain

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Dependency ratio

The number of people in a dependent age group (under age 15 or age 65 and older) divided by the number of people in the working-age group (age 15 to 64), multiplied by 100

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Sex ratio

The proportion of males to females in a population

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Demographics

Data about the structures and charactistics of human populations

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Humans

The ability to produce children

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Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

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

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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

The average number of children one woman in a given region will have during her child-bearing years (ages 15 to 49)

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Mortality

Deaths as a component of population change

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Crude Death Rate (CDR)

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

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Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)

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

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Life expectancy

The average number of years a person is expected to live

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Population pyramid

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

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