Announcements 1. Quiz tomorrow (13 countries, capitals, and numerous vocab terms…on top right of board) 2. Ch. 4 Summary due RIGHT NOW as Homework grade. 3. Grades are posted on door to see as you LEAVE 4. No voy a estar aqui manana. Sea bueno para el substituto. Gracias. 5. Project due tomorrow (the smaller one)
Population Vocabulary AP Human Geography You will copy down these definitions and they are due next Tuesday ON FLASHCARDS as a homework grade
POPULATION DENSITY How many people per unit of land How many people are crammed into one place
Physiologic Population Density 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