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| The are within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity. |
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| The domestication of plants and animals meant that human beings created larger ans more stable sources of food, so more people survived. |
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| AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) |
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| A disease that began in central Africa during the late 20th century, and spread to many countries around the world before the end of the century. |
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| land suited for agriculture |
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| a pattern of growth that increases at a constant amount per unit time. |
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| Knowledge of opportunity locations beyond normal activity space. |
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| largest number if individuals of a population that a environment can support. |
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| migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. |
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| Short-term, repetitive , or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis |
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| the distance beyond which cost, effort, and/or means play a determining role in the willingness of the people to travel |
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| The total number of live births in a year for every thousand people alive in society. |
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| The total number of deaths in a year for every thousand people alive in society. |
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| the formula that calculates population change over time. |
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| large base of young people grows beyond childbearing age, overall population will gradually decline. |
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| Demographic transition theory |
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| theory that states that population patterns vary according to different levels of technological development, but all countries go through the same four stages. |
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| Study of population. Greek words "demos" meaning population or people, and "graphe", meaning to describe. |
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| The measure of how much matter is in a certain volume. |
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| People forced from their homes due to ethnic strive, war, or natural disasters. |
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| The decline of an activity or function with increasing distance from its point of origin. (describes the tendency for people to stay close to home) |
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| A population map with 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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| disease regularly found among particular people or in a certain area. |
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| Epidemiological transtion |
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| The drop in the death rate emphasizes a shared cultural heritage, such as language, religion, and customs. |
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| is less based on physial characteristics, and emphasizes a shared cultural heritage, such as language, religion, and customs. |
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| if a population has a constant birth rate through time and it is never limited by food. |
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| the killing of baby girls. |
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| Permanent migration compelled usually by cultural factors. |
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| When food supplies grow at an arithmetic rate. |
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| An inverse relation between the volume of migration ans the distance between source ans destination. |
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| A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. |
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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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| When more people immigrate to a location than emigrate. |
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| Migration within a country |
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| migration between regions. |
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| Physical features that slows migration from one place to another. |
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| the fact that many who set out to move a long distance fond good opportunities to settle before they reach their destnations |
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| migration within one region. |
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| measures the average number of years that a child can expect to live if the current mortality rates hold. |
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| occurs when a value increases by a constant- how production grows |
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| British economist; became the first critic to note that the world's population was increasing faster than the food supplies needed to sustain it. |
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| different type of mobility because it involves a permanent move to a new location, either with in a single country or from one country to another. |
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| the tendency for certain types of people to move. |
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| Percentage by which the population grows. |
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| Refers to the people with basically the same concerns with Malthus. |
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| The difference of immigrants and emigrants of an area in a period of time. |
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| Program that included both incentives and penalties to assure that couples produced only one child. |
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| when more people emigrate from a location than migrate to it. |
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| The circumstance of too many people for the land support. |
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| Widespread epidemic that affects a big area. |
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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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| Population concentrations |
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| the concentration of a population- where most people are located. |
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| the trend toward rapid population increase. |
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| Focus on the number, composition, and distribution of human beings on Earth's surface. |
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| Something that attracts people to a new region. |
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| Encourages people to move out form 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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| Geographer that studied internal migration. |
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| People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear od persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. |
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| Restrictive Population policies |
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| are a governments way of slowing down population rate by restricting how many children a family may have. |
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| sets the limits for peoples activities. |
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| the broad geographical term for the movement of peoples, ideas, and commodities within and between areas, whether it is circulation or migration. |
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| Stationary population level |
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| the level at which a national population ceases to grow. |
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| Migration to a destination that occurs in stages. |
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| Balance of society, economy, and environment for current and future health. |
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| The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years. |
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| Permanent movement by choice. |
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| A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. |
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