AP Human Geography Midterm Vocab

The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process

• contagious diffusion

• expansion diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• Diffusion

The total number of people divided by the total land area

• arithmetic density

• density

• population density

• agricultural density

A complete enumeration of a population

• ecumene

• population agglomerations

• census

• age distribution

optimists who question limits-to-growth perspectives and contend that markets effectively maintain a balance between population, resources, and the environment

• cornucopians

• natalism

• neomalthusians

• malthus,thomas

The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force

• dependency ratio

• age distribution

• population pyramid

• carrying capacity

distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition

• epidemiological transition

• migration transition

• demographic transition

• census

A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.

• population pyramid

• census

• migration transition

• age distribution

Percentage of the total population, or the population of each sex, at each age level.

• age distribution

• population pyramid

• sex ratio

• dependency ratio

The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture

• agricultural density

• physiological density

• arithmetic density

• cornucopians

November, 1943 - A meeting of Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek in Egypt to define the Allies goals with respect to the war against Japan, they announced their intention to seek Japan's unconditional surrender and to strip Japan of all territory it had gained since WW I.

• cario conference

• neomalthusians

• cornucopians

• population centers