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What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people divided by the total land area
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What is Natural Increase Rate (NIR)?
The percentage growth of a population (birth rate-death rate)
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What is Stage 1?
Very high CBR and CDR; very low NIR
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What is the Demographic Transition Model?
Shows stages of demographic changes of birth/death rates within a country
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What is life expectancy?
The average number of years an individual is expected to live in a place
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What is agricultural density?
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of arable land
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What is overpopulation?
When the number of people exceeds the carrying capacity of a place
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What is Stage 4?
Very low CBR, low/slightly increasing CDR, and zero/declining NIR
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What is the Epidemiological Transition Model?
Shows health threats within the stages of the demographic transition model
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What is dependency ratio?
The number of people unable to work (under 15 or above 64) compared to the number of people in the labor force
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What is physiological density?
The number of people per unit area of arable land
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What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population
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What is Stage 5?
Higher death rate than birth rate; negative NIR
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What is a population pyramid?
A bar graph that displays the percentage of a place's population for each age and gender.
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What is a census?
An official count/survey of the population
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What is total fertility rate (TFR)?
Average number of children a woman will have during her child bearing years
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What is carrying capacity?
Maximum population size that the environment can sustain indefinitely
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What is Stage 2?
High CBR, rapidly declining CDR, and very high NIR
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What is Stage 3?
Stage of the ETM characterized by degenerative diseases
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What is pandemic?
Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
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What is a pro-natalist policy?
Do it for Denmark!
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Who is Thomas Malthus?
Believed that population will grow exponentially while food source would grow linearly
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What is Stage 3?
Rapidly declining CBR, moderately declining CDR, and moderate NIR
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What is a J-Curve?
Graph that shows that as population grows exponentially, resource use will grow exponentially
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What is an ecumene?
A portion of the Earth's surface occupied by a permanent settlement
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