Chapter 4 + 5 Key Terms AP Human Geo.
Chapter 4 and 5 key terms for AP Human Geography Mr. Skeie
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- Age-sex pyramid
- graphic representation (profile) of a population showing the percentages of the total population by age, and sex, normally in five-year groups
- Population concentration
- focused area of a large amount of people
- Doubling Time
- the time required for a population to double in size
- Megalopolis
- area of major cities clumped together
- Population geography
- a subdivision of human geography that focuses on the spatial aspects of demography and the influences of demographic change on particular places
- Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
- the number of live births per year, per thousand people in the population
- Demography
- the study of population
- Linear Growth
- human population increases in a uniform amount during a series of equal time periods
- Density
- a description of the quantity per unit area of a given object or living organism
- Natural Increase
- population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths per 1,000 individuals/year
- Population density
- a measurement of the number of people per given unit of land
- Demography
- the study of patterns and rates of population change, including birth and deat rates, migration trends, and evolving population distribution patterns
- Census
- a periodic and official count of a country's population
- Physiologic population density
- the number of people per unit area of arable land
- Population structure
- when geographers study population and spatial distribution
- Stationary Population Level (SPL)
- a level that suggest most (if not all) countries' populations will stop growing at some time during the twenty-first century
- Population composition
- makeup in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education
- Distribution
- to disperse something in certain amounts
- Demographic cycle
- sequence of stages that have been observed in the population records
- Infant mortality rate (IMR)
- a figure that describes the number of babies that die within the first year of their lives in a given population
- Population explosion
- the rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century, attended by ever-shorter doubling times and accelerating rates of increase
- Crude Death Rate (CDR)
- the number of deaths per thousand
- Population data
- the info. of an amount of people
- Exponential Growth
- cumulative or compound growth of a population over a given time period
- Arithmetic population density
- the population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area
- Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
- another measure of the reproductive status of a population