Unit 2 Vocabulary Part A Flashcards

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a ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land; farmers/arable land

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Agricultural Density

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Total number of population in a given land area; number of people/total land area

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Arithmetic Density

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total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society

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Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

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total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a given society

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Crude Death Rate (CDR)

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a process of change in a society's population from high CBR/CDR and low NRI to low CBR/CDR, low NRI, and high higher population

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Demographic Transition

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the number of people who are too young or too old to work compared to the number of people in their productive years

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Dependency Ratio

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the portion of the Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement; the portion of habitable land

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Ecumene

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the number of working age people divided by the number of people over 65

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Elderly Support Ratio

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focuses on distinctive health threats in each stage of the DTM

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Epidemiologic Transition

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Annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with live births; usually expressed as #/1000; reflects quality of healthcare system

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Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)