Human Mosaic Chap.3 Population Geography

Geodemography;The study of the spatial and ecological aspects of population.

Culture region, diffusion, ecology, interaction, and landscape

Their densities, spatial distributions, age and gender structures, the ways they increase and decrease, and how rapidly population numbers change enormously from place to place.

A measurement of population per unit (per square mile)

A demographic region based on the single trait of population density.

The maximum number of people who can be supported in a given area.

People are born and others die in a particular place, and people move into and out of that place(migration). Refer to as natural increase/decreases.

The annual number of births per thousand population.

Birthrates ranging from 10 to 20 births per thousand are considered low, while rates from 40 to 50 births per thousand are considered high.

The number of children the average woman will bear during her productive lifetime.

A condition of population stability, zero population growth is achieved when an average of only 2.1 children per couple survive to adulthood, so that eventually

The annual deaths per thousand persons in the population.

The rapid, accelerating increase in the world population since about 1650 and especially since 1900.

One who holds the views of Malthus, who believed that overpopulation is the root cause of poverty, illness, and warfare.

The movement from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.

A graph used to show the age and sex composition of a population.

The numerical ratio of males to females in a population.

The number of infants per thousand live births who die before reaching one year of age.