Unit 2: Population Vocabulary & More

Physiological Density is

• the total measure of a population relative to land size
• Number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.
• The arrangement of people on the Earth's surface.
• Huge urban conglomerates

This is calculated by subtracting the total number of deaths from the total number of births...

• Total Fertility Rate
• Child Mortality Rate
• Natural Increase
• Population Density

Old age dependency ratio is....

• relationship between the number of people over the age of 65 and the working age population between 15 and 64. 
• Demographers use this to measure whether a population can replace its deaths with births. It is calculated as the average number of children born to a woman of childbearing age. 
• calculated by subtracting the total number of deaths from the total number of births...
• the time it would take for the population to double.

If you invested $100 at 10% compounded annually it would take about seven years to double to $200 and then another 7 years to become $400 and another 7 years to become $800. This is called...

• Doubling time
• Population explosion
• Zero population growth
• Total Fertility Rate

This is calculated by the number of live births per year per thousand people in the population...

• Crude Birth rate
• Crude Death Rate
• Total Fertility Rate
• Child-bearing age

This is calculated by the number of deaths per year per thousand people...

• Crude Death Rate
• Crude Birth Rate
• Total Fertility Rate
• Natural Rate of Increase

How is Infant mortality rate measured?

• baby's death during the first year following its birth; number of cases per 1000 live births
• death between ages 1 and 5
• Total population divided by ages
• Total population divided by land area

Life expectancy is...

• number of years on average someone may expect to remain alive
• Deaths of children aged 1-5
• How long the earth will sustain population growth
• How healthy a child is

An example of an expansive population policy is....

• Do It for Denmark
• One-child Policy
• Eugenic population policies
• All of these answers

An example of a country with a population pyramid that has a large base is

• Japan.
• Germany.
• Nigeria.
• Russia.