Human Geography Chapter 2 Test
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Created by:
the_anomaly on November 3, 2011
Subjects:
human geography, geography, social studies, social science, demographics
Description:
Vocabulary and mayhap the odd concept thrown in from the Human Geo 1 Honors book "Contemporary Human Geography".
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Populous regions | Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Europe |
| Sparsely populated regions | Cold lands, wet lands, dry lands, and high lands |
| arithmetic density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. |
| arable land | Land suitable for agriculture. |
| physiological density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. |
| agricultural density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. |
| natural increase rate | (Aka NIR) The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. |
| doubling time | The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase. |
| crude birth rate | (Aka CBR) The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. |
| crude death rate | (Aka CDR) The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society. |
| total fertility rate | (Aka TFR) The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years. |
| infant mortality rate | (Aka IMR) The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society. |
| life expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live. |
| dependency ratio | The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force. |
| demographic transition | The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude and birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population. |
| Stage 1 | Very high CBR and CDR; low NIR. Stage during most of human history. |
| Stage 2 | Still high CBR, rapidly declining CDR, and very high NIR. Stage in MDCs 200 years ago and LDCs 50 years ago. (Cape Verde) |
| Stage 3 | Rapidly declining CBR, moderately declining CDR, moderate NIR. IN MDCs 100 years. (Chile) |
| Stage 4 | Very low CBR; low, slightly increasing CDR; and 0 or negative NIR. In MDCs recently. (Denmark) |
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