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Social Studies Chapter 2 Vocab
Vocabulary for Chapter 2
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09/21/2010

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ecumene
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ecumene- portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanenet human settlement
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arithmetic density
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arithmetic density- total number of people divided by total land area (this measure is also called population density)
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physiological density
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physiological density- the number of people supported by a unit area of arable land
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Agricultural density
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Agricultural density- ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land.
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Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
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total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. A CBR of 20 means that for ever 1,000 people in a country, 20 babies are born over a 1 - year period
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Crude Death Rate (CDR)
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Crude Death Rate (CDR)- total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. Comparable to the CBR, the CDR is expressed as the annual number of deaths per 1,000 population.
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Natural Increase Rate(NIR)
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percentage by which a population grows in a year. It is computed by subtracting CDR from CBR, after first converting the two measures from number per 1,000 to percentages. The term natural means that a country's growth rate excludes migration.
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Doubling Time
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the number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
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average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years.
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Life expectancy
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Life expectancy- the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live at current mortality levels.
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Demographic Transition
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a similar process of change in a society's population
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Stage 1: Low Growth
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During most of this period, people depended on hunting and gathering for food. When food was easily obtainined, a region's population increased, but ti declined when people were unable to locate enough animals or vegetation nearby.
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agricultural revolution
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time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
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Stage 2: High Growth
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The CDR suddenly plummets, while the CBR remains roughly the same as stage 1. Because the difference between the CBR and CDR is suddenly very high, the NIR is also very high, and population grows rapidly. Countries entered stage 2 as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Some countries moved to stage 2 by the medical revolution.
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Industrial Revolution
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began in England in the late eighteenth century and spread to the European continent and North America during the nineteenth century.
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Medical Revolution
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Medical technology invented in Europe and North America diffused to less developed countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Improved medical practices suddenly eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in LDCs and enabled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
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Stage 3: Moderate Growth
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Sudden drops of CBR. People choose to have fewer children. This decision is a delayed reaction to a decline in mortality, especially the IMR.
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Stage 4 (Low Growth)
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CBR declines to the point where it equals the CDR, and the NIR approaches zero. This condition is called zero population growth.Women move from homemakers, and enter the labor force. Smaller families are created.
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Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
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The point when the CBR declines to a point where it equals the CDR, and the NIR approaches zero.
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Population pyramid
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shows the percentage of the total population in 5-year age groups, with the youngest group at the base of the pyramid and the oldest group at the top.
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Dependency Ratio
Definition
number of people who are too young or too old to work.
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Sex Ratio
Definition
Number of Males per hundred females in the population
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Malthus
Definition
Dude who predicted world-wide hunger
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Malthus's theory
Definition
Eventually, population would exceed Food production, creating world-wide competition for food.
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epidemiological transition
Definition
distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.
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epidemiology
Definition
branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people.
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What sort of epidemics occur in Stage 1?
Definition
This occurred during the Stage 1 of Demographic Transition, or where hunter-gatherers ruled the Earth, along with a few farmers. Infectious and parasitic diseases were principal causes of human deaths, along with accidents and attacks by animals and other humans.
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What happens in Stage 2 in epidemiological transition?
Definition
This happens during Industrial revolutions, and/or medical revolutions and during high population rates. People crowd into cities. Diseases spreads easily. Cholera is an example.
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Stage 3 of the epidemiological transition
Definition
Stage 3 is characterized by degenerative and human created diseases. Cardiovascular diseases. Infectious diseases decline. Better treatment.
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Stage 4 of the epidemiologic transition
Definition
Stage of Major degenerative causes of death. cardiovascular diseases. cancer. Improving health conditions.
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The Possible stage 5 of epidemiologic transition
Definition
Reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases. Reasons: Evolution (natural selection would eventually create the Godly Germs). Poverty: (infectious and easily treated diseases in Developed countries, are common in LDCs.) 3. improved travel (easy transfer of new bacteria. Like H1N1. Transferred from Mexico to USA very quickly. Signs of Stage 5.)
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push factor
Definition
a factor that induces people to move out of their present location
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pull factor
Definition
induces people to move into a new location
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refugees
Definition
people who have been forced to migrate from their homes and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.
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floodplain
Definition
the area subject to flooding during a specific number of years, based of historical trends.
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international migration
Definition
permanent movement from one country to another
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internal migration
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permanent movement within the same country
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interregional migration
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movement from one region of a country another
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intraregional migration
Definition
movement within one region
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voluntary migration
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implies that the migrant has CHOSEN to move for economic improvement
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forced migration
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migrant has been compelled to move by cultural factors.
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migration transition
Definition
consists of changes in a society comparable to those in the demographic transition.
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Peak of European immigration
Definition
During the 1840s and 1850s, more than 95 percent of U.S. immigrants came from North and Western Europe. Germans migrated to escape political unrest, as well as from poor economic conditions.
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Immigration from Asia
Definition
1970's and late 1980s. High immigration rates from Asia to USA.
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Latin America immigration
Definition
1970-present. Most immigrants from Latin America to USA
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Baby boom
Definition
Large amount of babies due to veterans from World War 2
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Baby Bust
Definition
fewer amount of babies. Usually occurs after baby boom.
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carrying capacity
Definition
the population that a certain area can not hold.
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Census
Definition
a periodic count of a population
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Chain migration
Definition
one migration after the other
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cohort
Definition
a group of people having approximately the same age
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Cotten Belt
Definition
region of southern America in which cotton was created
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Demography
Definition
studies of characterists of human population
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Emigration
Definition
moving out of the area
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epidemic
Definition
local disease
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Generation X
Definition
the generation following the baby boom
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immigration
Definition
moving into a country
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intervening obstacle
Definition
an obstacle that is placed betweeen other things. Example: Governmental laws are a intervening
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mortality
Definition
the quality or state of being mortal
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Neo malthusian
Definition
people who believed in Tomas malthus' theory of over population
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Neo malthusian
Definition
people who believed in Tomas malthus' theory of over population
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Net Migration
Definition
the difference between total number of arrivals and total number of departures
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pandemic
Definition
a world-wide disease
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Rust Belt
Definition
manufacturing belt. f
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Sun Belt
Definition
REgion of USA that stretches from south to Southwest
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