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Population Vocabulary

AP Human Geography

You will copy down these definitions and they are due

next Tuesday ON FLASHCARDS as a

homework grade

POPULATION DENSITYHow many people per unit of land

How many people are crammed into one place

Physiologic PopulationDensity

• Number of people per unit area of arable (land good for farming) land

Population Distribution

• How people are distributed throughout a region or the world

Dot Map

• Map where one dot represents a certain amount of people

Megalopolis

• Large supercities that combine several cities

Census

• A count of the population

• Or

• A population count

Doubling Time

• How long it takes a region to double its population

Population explosion

• Rapid growth of the world’s population the past century

Natural increase

• Population growth measured by amount of people left over after you subtract deaths from live births

CBR – Crude birth rate

• Number of live births yearly per thousand people in a population

CDR- Crude death rate

• Total number of deaths in a region per 1,000 people

Demographic transition-

• A multi-step classification of countries according to 4 stages. Tells how modern a country is

SPL- Stationary Population Level

• When a population shows no major increase or decline in population

Population composition

• How a population looks in terms of age, gender, marital status, and education

Population pyramids

• A graph that shows the age and gender of a population and how they relate to others in that population

IMR- Infant mortality rate

• Number of infants who die before they turn 1 years old

CMR- Child mortality rate

• Number of children who die between ages of 1 and 5

Life expectancy

• How long someone expects to live

Chronic diseases

• Long-lasting injuries or diseases that are common due to higher life expectancies