Vocabulary Terms
Government affects on Population
Distribution of People
Factors that cause population increase or decrease
Population
100
The number of deaths per year per thousand people
What is the crude death rate?
100
Policies that drastically reduced China's growth rate from one of the world's fastest to one of the slowest developing populations
What are one child policies?
100
People not only live in this country's large cities, but ribbons of high population density extend into the interior of the country's major rivers and river valleys
What is China?
100
When the population grows from 500 million to one billion in a short amount of time
What is an example of Population Explosion?
100
Poorer countries have this shape of population pyramid because death rates remain high, while birth rates remain low
What are Population Pyramids like Evergreen trees?
200
Displays the percentages of each age group in the total population by a horizontal bar whose length represents its share.
What is a population pyramid?
200
The Church that opposes birth control and abortion in Europe
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
200
Map used to represent a certain number of a population
What is a Dot Map?
200
British economist who warned the world's population was increasing faster than the food supplies needed to sustain it
Who is Thomas Malthus?
200
The predominantly Muslim country that has a Total Fertility Rate below replacement
What is Iran?
300
A baby's death during the first year following its birth
What is infant mortality rate
300
In this country policies were designed to promote gender equality and boost fertility rates. Cash payouts and work leaves were also given as incentives
What is Sweden?
300
One of two physical barriers that create boundaries of the South Asia population cluster (major land formation)
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
300
Reasons why death rates would fall with a more stable economy
What are effective medicines and stable food supplies?
300
The Total Fertility Rate that is required for a population to remain stable over time
What is 2.1?
400
Diseases that can be traced to our ancestry, that is, the chromosomes and genes that define our makeup.
What are genetic or inherited diseases?
400
This country gives women $10,000 to women who give birth to a second or third child. (In Europe)
What is Russia?
400
A periodic and official count of the population
What is a Census?
400
The shift in population growth
What is the Demographic Transition?
400
Reasons why women choose to delay child birth
What are schooling and careers?
500
Policies that encourage large families and raise the rate of natural increase
What are expansive population policies?
500
These policies range from toleration of officially unapproved means of birth control to outright prohibition of large families
What are Restrictive Population Policies?
500
The number of live births per year per thousand people in the population
What is the Crude Birth Rate?
500
The causes of infant mortality and child mortality in lesser developed countries
What are inadequate amounts of food and poor sanitation?
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