Population Vocab
Total number of farmers in comparsion to the total amount of land suitable for for agriculture
Agricultural Density
the transtiton from hunting and gathering to planting and sustaining
Agricultural revolution
the total number of objects in an area
Arithmetic Density
counts the population of a nation, state or other geographic region
Census
Crude Birth Rate
Crude Birth Rate
Crude Death Rate
total number of deaths a year
Commerical Agriculture
agriculture that is primarly used to sell in order to generate profit
Demographic momentum
the tendency for growing a populations to continue growing after fertility decline b/c of their young age distrubtion
demographic transition
the process of change in a societys population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates to lower birth and death rates as a country or region develops from a pre-industrial to industrialized economic region.
demography
the quantitative study of human population.
Dependency Ratio
number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 64, compared to the number of people active in labor force
Doubling Time
number of years it takes for a population to double