Monday, January 13, 2014

Chapter 7&8 Vocabulary

Chapter 7

• Demography • Developed countries • Population momentum
• Demographers • Developing countries • Theory of demographic transition
• Immigration • Life expectancy • Family planning
• Emigration • Infant mortality • Affluence
• Crude birth rate • Child mortality • IPAT equation
• Crude death rate • Age structure diagrams • Urban area
• Total fertility rate (TFR) • Population pyramid
 • Gross domestic product (GDP) • Replacement-level fertility


Chapter 8

• Core • Richter scale • E horizon • Mantle • Rock cycle
 • B horizon • Magma • Minerals • C horizon
• Asthenosphere • Igneous rocks • Texture
• Lithosphere • Intrusive • Cation exchange capacity
• Crust • Extrusive • Soil bases • Hot spots • Fractures • Soil acids
• Plate tectonics • Sedimentary rocks • Base saturation
• Tectonic cycle • Metamorphic rocks • Soil degradation
• Subduction • Physical weathering • Crustal abundance
• Volcano • Chemical weathering • Ores
• Divergent plate boundaries • Acid rain • Metals
• Seafloor spreading • Erosion • Reserve • Convergent plate boundaries
• Deposition • Strip mining • Transform fault boundary • Soil
 • Mining spoils (tailings) • Fault • Parent material • Open-pit mining
• Fault zones • Horizons • Mountaintop removal • Earthquakes
 • O horizon • Placer mining • Seismic activity • A horizon
 • Subsurface mining • Epicenter • Topsoil

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