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AP Human Geography Unit 2 Vocab Questions and Answers
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AP Human Geography Unit 2 VocabAge Distribution - answer One back-to-back bar graph, showing the number of males
and showing females in a particular population in five-year age groups.
Carry capacity - answer This is the population level that can be supported, given the
quantity of food, habitat, water and other life infrastructure present.
Cohort - answer Population of various age categories in an age-sex population pyramid.
Demographic momentum - answer this is the tendency for growing population to
continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution.
Demographic Regions - answer Cape Verde is in Stage 2 (High Growth), Chile is in
Stage 3 (Moderate Growth), and Denmark is in Stage 4 (Low Growth). This is important
because it shows how different parts of the world are in different stages of the
demographic transition.
Demographic Transition model - answer Has 4 steps. Stage 1 is low growth (low
stationary), Stage 2 is High Growth (early expanding), Stage 3 is Moderate Growth (late
expanding), and Stage 4 is Low Growth (low stationary), and Stage 5 although not
officially a stage is a possible stage that includes zero or negative population growth.
This is important because this is the way our country and others countries around the
world are transformed from a less developed country to a more developed country.
Dependency Ratio - answerThe number of people who are too young too old to work
compared to the number of people in there productive years.
Diffusion of fertility control - answerthe spread of fertility control in an area.
Disease Diffusion - answerThere are two types, contagious and hierarchical.
Hierarchical is along high density areas that spread from urban to rural areas.
Contagious is spread through the density of people.
Doubling Time - answerThe number of years needed to double a population, assuming
a constant rate of natural increase.
Ecumene - answerThe portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human
settlement.
Epidemiological transition model - answerThis is a distinctive cause of death in each
stage of the demographic transition.
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