Distribution - The pattern of where the population lives., Density - How many people live in a unit of land., Physical Factors - The physical characteristics of the land that may affect where people live in an area., Human Factors - The human aspects of a geographic area., Arithmetic Density - The number of people per unit area of land., Physiological Density - The number of people per unit area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture., Agricultural Density - The number of farmers per unit area of farmland., Carrying Capacity - The number of people an area can sustain without critically straining its resource base., Age Structure - The frequency of different ages or age groups in a given population., Sex Ratio - The number of males per 100 females in a population., Population Pyramids - A graph that shows the age and sex demographics of a particular country, city, or neighborhood., Fertility - The ability to conceive children or young., Mortality - Death, especially on a large scale., Migration - The movement of people from one permanent home to another., Natural Increase/Rate of Natural Increase - The percentage growth of a population in a year (crude birth rate minus the crude death rate)., Doubling Time - The amount of time it takes for the population of a region to double., Infant Mortality Rate - The number of babies, per 1,000 births, that die before their first birthday., Child Mortality Rate - The annual number of deaths of children under the age of 5 per 1,000 births., Demographic Transition Model - A graph that shows population change over time using 5 stages. It studies how birth rate and death rate affect the total population of a country., Epidemiological Transition - A graph that shows changing patterns of population age distributions, mortality, fertility, life expectancy, and causes of death., Death Rates - The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society., Birth Rates - The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society., Malthusian Theory - The theory that mass starvation is inevitable because food supplies grow at the same rate while the population grows exponentially., Malthus - An English economist and demographer best known for his theory, the Malthusian Theory, Ester Boserup - Best known for her theory, the Boserup Theory, which claims that population growth is independent of food supply and that population increase is a cause of changes in agriculture., Neo-Malthusian - The belief that population control through the use of contraception is essential for the survival of Earth's resources.,

AP Human Geography Unit 2 vocabulary 2.1-2.6

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