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Questão	Responda
Agricultural Density	The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
Agricultural Revolution	The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
Arithmetic Density	The total number of people divided by the total land area
Census	A complete enumeration of a population
Crude Birth Rate	The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society
Crude Death Rate	The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society
Demographic Transition	The process of change in a society's population for a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population
Demography	The scientific study of population characteristics
Dependency Ratio	The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force
Doubling Time	The number of years needs to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
Ecumene	The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement
Epidemiologic Transition	Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition
Epidemiology	Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that are prevalent among a population at a special time and are produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality
Industrial Revolution	A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
Infant Mortality Rate	The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society
Life 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
Medical Revolution	Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to love longer and healthier lives.
Natural Increase Rate	The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate
Overpopulation	The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
Pandemic	Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Physiological Density	The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture
Population Pyramid	A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Sex Ratio	The number of males per 100 females in the population
Total Fertility Rate	The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
Zero population growth	A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero
Brain Drain	Large scale emigration by talented people.
Chain Migration	Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
Circultation	Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis
Counterurbanization	Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries
Emigration	Migration from a location
Floodplain	The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends
Forced Migration	Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors
Guest Workers	Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs
Immigration	Migration to a new location
Internal Migration	Permanent movement within a particular country
International Migration	Permanent movement from one region of a country to another
Interregional Migration	Permanent movement within one region of a country
Migration	From of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location
Migration Transition	Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition
Mobility	All types of movement from one location to another
Net Migration	The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration
Pull factor	Factor that induces people to move to a new location
Push Factor	Factor that induces people to leave old residences
Quotas	In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year
Refugees	People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.
Unauthorized Immigrants	People who enter a country without proper documents
Voluntary Migration	Permanent movement undertaken by choice.

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