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demos meaning population or people, and graphe, meaning to describe
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| focuses on the number, composition, and distribution of human beings on earth's surface. |
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| refers to the arrangement of locations on earth's surface where people live |
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a map where each dot represents a certain number of people
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| the number of people that live in a given area of land |
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| total number of people divided by the total land area |
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| land suited for agriculture |
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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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| the circumstance of too many people for the land to support |
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| the number of people an area can support on a sustained basis |
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| is based on the principle that everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends on our natural enviroment |
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| represents age and sex composition |
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| is a category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits |
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emphasizes a shared cultural haritage such as religion, language, and customs
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| percentage in which the populations grows |
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| domestication of plants and animals |
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| the lenght of time needed to double the population |
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| number of babies born per year per 1000 people |
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| number of deaths per year per 1000 people |
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| brought major improvements in technology that caused alot of wealth |
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| the trend toward rapid population increase in place since 1750 |
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| british economist. first critic to say the world population was increasing faster it can support it |
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| "geometric rate." 2,4,8,16,32 |
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| "arithmetic rate." 2,3,4,5,6 |
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| people that support thomas malthus |
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| the large base of young people grows beyond child-bearing age, the overall population will gradually decline |
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crude death rate(the number of deaths per year per 1000 people )
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| is the number of deaths among infants under the age one |
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| measures the average number of years that a child will live |
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| demographic transition theory |
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| these variations follow an overall pattern |
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| death rates fall because of greater food supplies |
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| epidemiological transition |
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| drop in death rate in mid-19 century |
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| stationary population level |
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| when countries stop growing at some time during the 21 century |
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| acquired immune deficency syndrome |
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| restrictive population policies |
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| these policies range from toleration of officially banned means of birth conrtol to prohibition of large families |
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| short term, repetitive movement that occurs on regular basis |
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| permanent move to a new location |
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| movement of ideas, people, and commodities |
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| summarizes the population change over time in an area |
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| + or - migration to a country |
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| is migration from a location |
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| the decline of an activity or function with increasing distance from its point of origin |
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| or the fact that many who set out to move long distance find places before they reach their destinations |
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| a measure of the interaction of places |
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| the distance beyond which cost, effort and means strongly influence willingness to travel |
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| encourages to move out of place |
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| attracts people to move to places |
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| people who have been forced to migrate from their homes |
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| people forced from their home due to ethnic, strife, war, etc. |
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| people who reiterated adolf hitler's racist doctrines |
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| tendency for certain types of people to move |
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| an area in which an individual moves about as he or she pursues rugular activities |
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| may be limited as well so that their knowledge of oppurtunity locations beyond the normal activity space |
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| that sets the limits for their activities |
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