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| What are four major population concentrations? Plus two smaller concentrations, or emerging clusters? |
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| East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, Eastern North America, and West Africa. |
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| The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
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| What does non-ecumene mean? |
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| The portion of earth's surface that's not occupied by permanent human settlement |
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| List four sparsely populated regions on earth. |
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| Dry lands, wet lands, cold lands, and high lands. |
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| Why is it inhospitable for human settlement in the dry lands? |
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| Lacks water to grow crops. |
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| Why is it inhospitable for human settlement in the wet lands? |
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| It receives a very high level of precipitation. The rainfall averages more than 50 incher per year. |
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| Why is it inhospitable for human setllement in the Cold lands? |
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| The ground is under permafrost. (Permanent frost.) The snowfall is thick ice. (Lots of snowfall.) Unsuitable for crops, it's very cold for humans and animals. |
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| Why is it inhospitable for human setllement in the high lands? |
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| It has very high elevation (3300 feet above sea level) Sparsely settled, and steep. |
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| What is arithmetic density? |
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The total number of people divided by total land area
A.K.A. Population Density |
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| Why do geographers rely on Arithmetic Density? |
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To compare conditions in different countries.
You need the total population and total land area to find the arithmetic density.
(People goes in the inside.) |
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| What is physiological density? |
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| The number of people supported by a unit area of arable land |
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| Land suited for agriculture |
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| The higher the physiological density, the greater the pressure that people may place on the land to produce enough food. |
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| What is Agricultural density? |
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| The ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land. |
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| What does agricultural density help account for? |
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| What is the crude birth rate? |
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| Total number of live births in a year for ever 1000 people alive in a society |
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| What is a Crude Death Rate? (CDR) |
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| otal number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society. |
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| What is the Natural increase Rate? (NIR) |
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| Percentage by which a population grows in a year. |
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| The world NIR is lower today than it's all time peak of 2.2 |
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| When did global NIR peak, and what was it? |
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| It's peak was in 1963, and it has declined sharply during the past decade.. 2.2% |
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| About how many people are being added to the world's population each year? |
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| Number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
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| What is the total fertility rate? (TFR) |
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| To measure the number of births in a society |
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| What is the global "average" TFR? |
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| What is the infant mortality rate? |
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| The annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age compared with total live deaths. |
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| The number of years a newborn infant can expect to live at current mortality levels. |
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| How are these mortality rates distributed globally in terms of the developed and developing ? |
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| The more regions of the world have lower rates of natural increase, crude birth, total fertility, and infanent mortality and higher average life expectancy. |
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| The demographhic transition is a ______ with several ____ and every ______ is in one of them. |
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Birth and death rates varies
people depend on hunting for food then when more food was obtained, population grew |
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| For nearly 10,000 years, the agricultural revolution grew at a modest pace then around 1750 it grew 10 times faster. New machines helped farmers increase agricultural production adn feed increasing population |
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Changes when CBR drops sharply
CRR drops a little, but CBR>CDR
Society enters Stage three when people choose to have fewer children. |
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| When the CBR equals the CDR and the NIR is zero. |
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| The shape of a pyramid is primarily determined by what demographic rate? |
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| Shape is determined by the CBR in the community |
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| What is the dependency ratio? |
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| The number of people who are too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years. |
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| What age groups are categorized as "Dependent" |
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| What does "graying" of a population refer to? |
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| Places a burden on Eurpoean and North American government to meet those needs. |
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| The nmber of males per hundred females in population |
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| What types of countries/ regions are likely to have more males than females? |
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| Which countriews are in stage one of the demographic transition? |
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| Which countries are in stage two and three of the demographic transition? |
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| Which countries are in stage four of the demographic transition? |
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