Chapter 22 Vocabulary 2
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- Demography
- the study of human population
- Fertility
- the incidence of childbearing in a country's population
- Crude Birth Rate
- the number of lice births in a given year for every thousand people in a population
- Mortality
- the incidence of death in a country's population
- Crude Death Rate
- the number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population
- Infant Mortality Rate
- the number of deaths amoung infants under one year of age for each thousand live births in a given year
- Life Expectancy
- the average life span of a country's population
- Migration
- the movement of poeple into and out of a specified territory
- Sex Ratio
- the number of male for every hundred female in a nation's population
- Age-sex Pyramid
- a graphic representation of the age and sex of a population
- Demographic Transition Theory
- the thesis that population patterns reflect a society's level of technological development
- Sero Population Growth
- the level of reproduction that maintains population in a steady state
- Urbanization
- the concentration of humanity into cities
- Metropolis
- a large city that socially and economically dominates an urban area
- Suburbs
- urban areas beyond the political boundaries of a city
- Megalopolis
- a vast urban region containing a number of cities and thier surrounding suburbs
- Gemeinschaft
- a type of social organitio by whic people are closly tied by kinship and tradition
- Gesellschaft
- a type of social organization by which people come together only on the basis of individual self-interest
- Urban Ecology
- the study of the link between the physical and social dimensions of cities
- Ecology
- the sudy of th interact of living oranisms and the natural environment
- Ecosystem
- a system compsed of te interact of all living organisms and thier natural environment
- Environmental Deficit
- profound and long-term harm to the natural environment caused by humanity's focus on short-term affluence
- Rain Forests
- regions of dense forestation, most of which circle the globe close to the equator
- Global Warming
- a rise in the Earth's average temperature due to an increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
- Environmental Racism
- the pattern by which environmental hazards are greastes for poor people, especially minorities
- Ecologically Sustainable Culture
- a way of lie that meets the needs of the present generation without threatening the envoronmental legacy of future genreations