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| Ecumene | A portion of the Earth that is populated by a permanent human settlement |
| Arithmetic Density | Total number of people to total amount of land |
| Agricultural Density | A density that can be used to indicate whether a country is more or less developed |
| Crude Birth Rate | Total number of births to every 1,000 live indivduals in that society |
| Crude Death Rate | Total Number of death per 1,000 live individuals in that society |
| Natural Increase Rate | The percentage in which a population increases per year. CBR-CDR |
| Doubling Time | Number of years needed to double the population |
| Total Fertility Rate | Average Number of births a woman will have throughout her childbearing year |
| Life Expectancy | The average number of years an infant is expected to live from birth |
| The Demographic Transition | Stages of population growth |
| Stage 1 | Low Growth, Unstable, No current country is in this stage |
| Stage 2 | High Growth, Increased sanitation, heathcare, quality of nutrition |
| Stage 3 | Moderate Growth, Drop in CBR closer to the CDR |
| Stage 4 | Low Growth, CBR=CDR, Most MDCs |
| Population Pyramid | Used to show age distribution and gender ratio |
| Dependency Ratio | Number of people too young or old to support themselves |
| Sex Ratio | Amount of males to women, unequal=instability |
| Malthusian Theory | Population is growing faster than food supply. Population = Geometric Rate, Food = Arithmetic Rate, |
| Neo-Malthusians | Population is set to out-pace oil, wealth, water, etc |
| Fredrich Engels | Believed that there was enough resources,it was just that there was an inequality in distribution |
| Sparsely populated regions | Dry, Hot, Cold, and High Elevations |
| 5 Population Clusters | East Asia, South Asia, Western Europe, Souteastern Asia, Northeastern North America (Chicago Triangle) |
| Physiological Density | The number of people compared to the amount of farmable land |
| Demography | The study of human populations |
| Esther Bosreup | A female geographer, who believed that with more people the greater the chance of innovation, circumventing overpopulation |
| Industrial Revolution | England, late 1700s-mid 1800s, Increased life expectency, and rural to urban migration |
| The One-child Policy | Chinese policy resitricting families to one child |
| Moa Zedong | Chinese communist leader mid 1900's |
| Communism | The poititical phyilosphy in which the government controls the production of all food and goods, and there is no privately owned property |
| The Great Leap Forward | A chinese policy of rapid industrialization: caused massive famine and death |
| Three Gorges Dam | Largest hydroelectrical project in the world, caused forced migration and negatively impacted the environment |
| Megalopolis | A large interconnected urban area: 10 million plus inhabitants |
| Arable Land | Land that can be farmed |
| Rural | Farmland, countryside, low population denstiy |
| Globalization | The incerased interrconectedness of the world |
| Tariff | A tax on foriegn imports |
| Mutlinational or Transnational Corporation | A company that operates in many countries |
| MDC | A more developed County: U.S., Japan, Germany |
| LDC | Less Developed Country: Nigeria, China, Mexico |
| Free Trade | Economic system where there is little government regulation: no tariifs, like NAFTA |
| SEZ's | Speacial Economic Zones; The eastern Coast of China where PING allowed Free Trade |
| Urban | City, High Populatin Density |
