Rubenstein Chapter 2 Part 1 vocabulary

2. The scientific study of popular on characteristics.
5. Revolution/ A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and drastically altered society.
8. expectancy/ The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live.
9. density/ The total number of people divided by the total land area.
12. The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.
13. A situation in which the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
14. transition/ The process of change in a society's population as a combination of medical advances and economic development, affecting a population's desire and ability to control its own birth and death rates.
15. time/ The number of years it takes for an area's population to double.
17. increase rate/ (NIR) The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate (NIR=CBR-CDR).

1. birth rate/ (CBR) The number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society.
3. density/ The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.
4. revolution/ Medical technology from Europe and North America that was used to eliminate many diseases in the developing world.
6. A complete enumeration of a population
7. density/ The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
10. Fertility Rate/ The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years.
11. Population Growth/ A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.
16. death rate/ (CDR) The number of deaths in a year per 1,000 people alive in a society.