Population
This is the term for the number of people per unit of land.
What is population density?
"Arithmatic Density"
This rate measures the number of births per 1,000 people in a year.
What is crude birth rate (CBR)?
This shape of population pyramid typically represents a developing country with high birth rates.
Shape of an LDC is ____________________
What is a wide base or pyramid shape?
A negative condition or circumstance that compels people to migrate away from a place
What is a push factor
This term describes the number of people per unit of arable (farmable) land.
What is physiological density?
This model explains the stages of population growth as a country develops economically.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
This rate shows the number of deaths per 1,000 people in a year.
What is crude death rate (CDR)?
A population pyramid with a narrow base and wider top suggests this type of population trend.
Bee Hive Shaped Pyramid Represents____________
1st World Country or MDC
More Developed Country
A motivating force that attracts individuals to migrate to a particular location
What is a pull factor
This organization monitors global population trends and often releases population projections.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
This term refers to the maximum number of people that an area can sustainably support.
What is carrying capacity?
This is the rate at which a population is increasing or decreasing, not including migration.
What is natural increase rate (NIR)?
The bulges or dips in a population pyramid often represent the effects of this.
What is a historical event like war, famine, or migration?
Someone forced to flee their home country and seek safety in another country due to a well founded fear of persecution armed conflict or violence.
What is a refugee
The ratio of people who are too young or too old to work compared to those in the working-age population.
What is the dependency ratio?
He observed patterns of migration in England in the 1800's
E.G. Ravenstein
This rate indicates the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.
What is total fertility rate (TFR)?
This type of country often has a more Bee Hive shaped population pyramid.
What is a developed country (or an industrialized country)?
MDC
Rural Means ___________________
Urban Means ______________
Agriculture Means________________
RURAL=Country/Country-Side
URBAN=City
AGRICULTURE=Farming
This term refers to the number of years it takes for a population to double in size at its current growth rate.
What is doubling time?
NOT ON TEST BUT GOOD TO KNOW
What does
"Arable Land" mean ?
land that can be plowed or tilled and used for growing crops, including temporary crops, meadows for pasture, kitchen gardens
USEABLE LAND Yo
This term refers to the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births.
What is infant mortality rate (IMR)?
A population pyramid with a large group in the 20–40 age range and few children may suggest this demographic phenomenon.
What is a demographic dividend or delayed childbearing?
Low BR
Low Birthrate
When there are a lot of peole in an area this is what we say about the Population?
When there are few people in an area we say this about the Poulation?
Densely Populated - Many People Together
Sparsely Populated- Not Many people
Total People/Arable Land = What Density ?
FORMULA TIME =)
Physiological Density