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AP Human Geography Unit 2
Number of Farmers divided by the arable land - ✔✔Agricultural Population Density
Land suitable for farming/agriculture - ✔✔Arable Land
Population of a region / arable (farmable) land - ✔✔Physiological Population Density
Population of a region divided by total land area. - ✔✔Arithmetic Population Density
Temporary marked increase in the birth rate - ✔✔Baby Boom
A complete count of of a population - ✔✔Census
Total number of child deaths per 1,000 live births - ✔✔Child Mortality Rate
Total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people in the society - ✔✔Crude
Birth Rate
%
Total number of deaths per 1,000 people in a society - ✔✔Crude Death Rate
Number of people too young or too old to work compared to workers -
✔✔Dependency Ratio
Also known as a relatively developed country or a developed country, country that has
progressed further along the development continuum - ✔✔More Developed Country
(MDC)
Number of years needed to double the population - ✔✔Doubling Time
The areas of earth occupied by human settlement - ✔✔Ecumeme
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The theory that says that there is a distinct cause of death in each stage of the
demographic transition model. It can help explain how a country's population changes
so dramatically. - ✔✔Epidemiological Transition Model
Time during the 19th century, major improvements in manufacturing goals and
delivering them to market - ✔✔Industrial Revolution
the number of infant deaths (under age 1) per 1000 live births - ✔✔Infant Mortality
Rates
Non-industrialized/poor countries.
Stage two, early three - ✔✔Less Developed Countries (LDC)
Average number of years an infant can expect to live - ✔✔Life Expectancy
An English economist who was one of the first to argue that the world's population
increase was far outrunning the development of food production - ✔✔Thomas Malthus
%
The theory that population grows faster than food supply - ✔✔Malthusian Theory
Time during the late 20th countries, when medical technology from Europe and North
America diffused to developing countries - ✔✔Medical Revolution
The percentage of annual growth in a population excluding migration. - ✔✔Rate of
Natural Increase (RNI)
A belief that the world is characterized by scarcity and competition in which too many
people fight for too few resources. Named for Thomas Malthus, who predicted a dismal
cycle of misery, vice, and starvation as a result of human overpopulation -
✔✔Neo-Malthusian
A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. -
✔✔Population Pyramids
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