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| Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
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| major improvements in technology that created an unprecedented amount of wealth |
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| people with the same basic concerns as Malthus, who advocate for population control programs, to ensure resources for current and future populations |
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| SLP (Stationary Population Level) |
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| when the crude birth rate equals the crude death rate and the natural increase rate approaches zero |
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| an area in which an individual moves about as he/she pursues regular, day-to-day activities |
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| agricultural/Neolithic Revolution |
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| revolution of domestication of plants and animals meant that human beings created larger and more stable sources of food |
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| land that is suited for agriculture |
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| arithmetic Population Density |
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| The population of a country or region, divided by the area it has |
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| limited space so that their knowledge of opportunity locations beyond the normal activity space is minimal |
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| The largest amount of people a region or country can support. |
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| a stream of people out of an area as the first movers communicate with people back home and stimulate others to follow |
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| short-term, repetitive movement that occurs on a regular basis |
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| distance beyond which cost, effort, and means strongly influence willingness to travel |
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| the number of live births in a given year for every thousand people in a population |
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| crude death rate (CDR) / mortality rate |
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| number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population |
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| population change over time in an area by combining natural change (CDR-CBR) and net migration |
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| The tendency for a growing population to continue growing after a fertility because of their young age distribution |
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| demographic transition theory |
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| the theory that states population patterns vary according to different levels of technological development |
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| people forced from their home due to ethnic strife, war, or natural disasters |
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| decline of an activity/function with increasing distance from its point of origin |
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| refers to the arrangement of locations on the Earth's surface where people live |
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| each dot representing a certain number of people |
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| the length of time needed to double the population |
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| migration FROM a location |
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| of a disease/condition regularly found among particular people or in a certain area |
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| less based on physical characteristics, and emphasizes a shared cultural heritage |
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| growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate |
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| population increases exponentially |
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| measure of interaction of places |
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| more people immigrate to them than emigrate from them |
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| the number of deaths among infants under one year of age for each thousand live births in a given year |
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| within borders of a country |
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| physical features that slow down migration from one place to another |
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| the fact that many who set out to move a long distance find good opportunities to settle before reaching their destination |
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| birth measures the average number of years that a child can expect to live if the current mortality rates hold |
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| expansion that increases by the same amount during each time interval |
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| permanent movement to a new location |
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| tendency for certain types of people to move |
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| mortality revolution/epidemiological transition |
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| the drop in death rate that became significant in the mid 19th century |
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| is the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths during a specific period |
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| who reiterated Hitler's racist doctrines |
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| Difference between in-migrants and out-migrants per thousand |
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| more people emigrate from them than immigrate to them |
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| the number of people an area can support on a sustained basis |
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| physiological population density |
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| measures the pressure that people may place on the land to produce enough food |
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| number of people that live in a given area of land |
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| the trend toward rapid population increase in place since 1750 |
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| focuses on the number, composition, and distribution of human beings on Earth's surface. |
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| represents age and sex compostion |
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| one that attracts them to a new region |
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| encourages people to move from the region that they live in |
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| a category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important |
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| those who were forced to migrate from their homes and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their religion, race, nationality, or political opinions |
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| restrictive population policies |
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| policies that range from toleration of officially banned means of birth control to the actual prohibition of large families |
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| sets limits for their activities |
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| movement of peoples, ideas, and commodities within and between areas |
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| long distance migration done in stages |
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| based on the principle that everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends |
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| the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years |
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| set as its goal the leveling off of the world's population in order to insure that the Earth would be able to sustain its inhabitants |
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