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scientific study of population characteristics
imporant because of concerns of population trends, resource, allocation, food production, etc |
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clustered population, globally
ecumene: portion of earth's surface permanently settled by humans |
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| world polulation clustered in 5 regions |
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1. East Asia
2. South Asia
3. Southeast Asia
4. Western Europe
5. EAstern North America
Asia- over half of the world's population in less than 10% of the earth's land area |
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Density
natural increase
life expectancy |
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| number o fpeople in a unit area; several statistical measures of density |
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| total number of people divided by total land area |
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total numbe rof people divided by the total arable land area
-gives a better indication of population pressure on land for food production |
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total number of farmers divied by the total amount of arable land
-gives indications of economic conditions |
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crude birth rate- births per year per thousand population
Crude death rate- deather per year per thousand population
Doubling time- period required for any beginning total experiencing compound growth, to double in size |
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| average number of children taht would be born to each women if, during her childbearing years, she bore children at the current year's rate for women that age. |
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agricultural
industrial
medical |
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| model explains population history of western Europe |
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| four stages of demographic transition |
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1- high brate and high dratte
2- high brate and low drate leads to large population increase
3- declining brate and low drate
4- low brate and low drate
5?- drate exceed brate |
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| a specialized bar graph that is used to depict age and sex characteristics of a population. The population is split into (usually)equal intervals of age and divided into male and female. The length of the bar indicates the percentage of people within that agea nd sex. |
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| shape indications of population pyramids |
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triangular population pyramid has
*high birth rates
*high death rates
pyramid with a wide base, narrow top, and concave sides have:
*falling death rates
*high birth rates
*typical of Asia, Africa, Latin America |
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a thread bobbin shape has
-stable pop
-low brates
-low drates
-high median age
-typical of Europe
a tapered base and a pyramid top has
-rapid decrease in fertility |
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emigration-away
immigrate- go to
push factors- what makes them wnat to leave thier country
pull- what draws you to other country/area
immigration impacts- some placed depopulationg and some places increasing in population |
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international
internal- rural to curban, city to suburb
-Undocumented Migration- illegal
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-return |
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| a value judgment that the resources of an area are insufficient to sustain adequately its present population numbers |
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English economist and demographer
dictum: unchecked population increases geometrically while food production increases arithmetically |
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population inevitably limeted by means of subsistence
-pop invariably increase with increase in the means of subsistence unless prevented by powerful checks
checks
private- moral restraint,, celibacy, chastity
destructive- war, poverty, pestilence, famine |
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viewpoints
neo malthusians |
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| lower birth rates so capital investment can go into raising standards of living |
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| muslims, nationalist, marxists |
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| population growth is stimulant to development- human minds and skills are ultimate resource (tech overcomes limits) |
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