POPULATION

VOCABULARY

BIRTH RATE: number of births that take place in a population over a year.
DEATH RATE: number of deaths that take place in a population over a year.
NATURAL INCREASE: crude birth rates minus the crude desth rate. 
INFANT MORTALITY RATE: is the number of deaths of infants under 1 year dividing by the number of births in a year, per 100.
LIFE EXPECTANCY:  is the average years that one person may expect to live.
BIRTH CONTROL: methods of restricting the number of children born.
DEPENDENT POPULATION:  part of the population that does not work and relies on others for the goods and services they consume. 
DEPENDENCY RATIO: measure showing the number of dependents, aged zero to 14 and over the age of 65, to the total population, aged 15 to 64.
FAMILY PLANNING:  is the practice of controlling the number of children in a family and the intervals between their births, particularly by means of artificial contraception or voluntary sterilization. 
POPULATION PIRAMIDS/ AGE-GENDER STRUCTURE: is one way to look at the demographics of a country. .
REPLACEMENT RATE: A replacement rate is the percentage of a worker's pre-retirement income that is paid out by a pension program upon retirement.
FERTILITY RATE: the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.
AGEING  POPULATION:  is a phenomenon that occurs when the median age of a country or region rises due to rising life expectancy and declining birth rates.
POPULATION DISTRIBUTION: the arrangement or spread of people living in a given area.
POPULATION DENSITY: is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume.
MEDC: is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations..
LEDC: is a nation or sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
OVERPOPULATION: occurs when a species' population exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche.
UNDER POPULATION: can refer to the decline in population of any organism, but this article refers to population decline in humans.

SELF-ASSESSMENT

Now I can speak better, the thing that I liked more are the projects.  My greatest strength is grammar and the weakness is translation and vocabulary. I think I did well grammar and I confused in translation and the definitions about the vocabulary. I think that I need help about translation, we can practice more. Outside class I went to particular class of English, did the homework, projects and put things in the blog. The translation, vocabulary, participate more en class and speak less. I learnt about culture of Aborigean, the live in other countries...

UNIT 2

VOCABULARY

DISAPPOINTING: causig or bringing about disappointment.
DRAMATIC: exciting, with lots of action.
DULL: not interesting, boring.
ENJOYABLE: something that is fund and makes you happy.
ENTERTAINING: affroding entertainment.
HILARIOUS: extremely funny.
INFORMATIVE: giving information; instructive.
ORIGINAL: new and different.
PREDICTABLE: when it´s easy to guess what will happend. 
REALISTIC: based in solmething real.
SPECTACULAR: wonderful to see, watch or look at.
TERRIFYING: causing or bringing terror.
TALENT: a special, often crative skill.
SPECIAL EFFECTS: unusual visual and sound effects.
AUDIENCE: the group of people listening to or viewing a public event.
BOX OFFICE: a office of a cinema... at which tickets are sold.
INCOME: payment for goods or forservices, or from rents or investments.
AWARD: a prize.
BEGINNING: an act of starting.
BESTSELLER: a product that sells very well at a giventime.
CRITIC: a person who writes reviews.
ENDING: the end.
FILM DIRECTOR: a person who tells actors what to do in a film.
HIT: success.
MAIN CHARACTER: the most important person in a film, book...
NOVELIST: a person who writes stories.
PLOT: what happens in a book or film.
REVIEW: a critical article.
SETTING: a place where a book, film... take place.