Where are the World's People Distributed?
The Earth area of permanent human settlement is called the ______________.
What is ecumene?
The natural increase rate (NIR) is the _______________.
What is the percentage by which a population grows in years?
The annual number female deaths per 100,000 live births from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management.
What is maternal mortality rate?
Who concluded that the world's rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies?
Land suited for agriculture is called _____________.
What is arable land?
Which two countries have the highest population?
What are India and China?
When the world's population reached 6 billion in 1995, it was predicted that at a steady rate of growth the population would reach 12 billion in approximately 45 years. That period of 45 years is known as ________________.
What is doubling time?
The annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age, compared with total live births.
What is the infant mortality rate?
Inadequate pollution controls and degenerative diseases are most closely associated with Russia's increasing ____________.
What is crude death rate (CDR)?
The four main population clusters are _____________.
What are East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia?
The total number of objects in an area is __________.
What is arithmetic density?
The total number of live births per year per 1,000 people in a society is the ____________.
What is the crude birth rate?
The maternal mortality rate is higher in ________ than in other developed countries.
What is the United States?
The most lethal pandemic in recent years has been _____________.
What is AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome)?
There are several ways that the number of people occupying an area of land can be computed. They are __________________.
What are arithmetic density, physiological density, and agricultural density?
Physiological density is the number of __________.
What is people per area suitable for agriculture?
The highest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?
What is Stage 2?
The number of people who are too young or too old to work compared to the number people in their productive years is called the _______________.
What is the dependency ratio?
The most controversial national family planning program is closely associated with ___________.
What is India?
The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions is ______________.
What is life expectancy?
Which of the following is NOT a physical environment where human beings are likely to avoid clustering?
hot lands, dry lands, high lands, cold lands, wet lands,
Thucydides
What is hot lands?
Rapidly declining death rates and very high birth rates produce very high natural increase. Europe and North America entered stage 2 of the demographic transition after 1750, as a result of ________________.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This branch of medical science is concerned with incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that are prevalent among a population over a particular time.
What is epidemiology?
The stage of reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases is a possible stage _______ epidemiological transition.
What is five?
The world's elderly support ratio is currently around ___________.
What is 9?