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| Focuses on the number, composition, and distrubution,of human beings on earth's surface. |
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| refers to the arrangment, of locations 0n the earh's surface where people live |
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| A popullation map, where each dot represents a certain number of people |
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| DArithmetic(crude)Denisity |
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| the total number of people divided by total land area |
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| Physiological Population Density |
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| Measures the presure that people place on the land to produce enough food |
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| Land that is suited for agriculture |
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| Circumfrence of too many peoplefor the land to support |
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| Number of people of people an area can support on a sustained basis |
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| Priciple that everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or inderecty, on our natural enviroment. |
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| A graphic device, that represents age and sex composition. |
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| Category composed of people who share biologicly transmitted traits that members of society consider importent. |
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| Less based on physical characteristics an emphasizes a shared cultural heritage, such as language, religion, and customs. |
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| Goal that plans to level off the world's population in order to insure the earth would be able to sustain its inhabitants. |
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| Critic that noted that the world's population was outgrowing it's food suplies. |
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The creation of larger and more stable food source.
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| Length of time needed to double the Population |
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| Number Of deaths per year, per 1000 person |
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| time during the 19th century where major improvments in technology, that brought large amounts amounts of wealth. |
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| Trend, torward a rapid population growth. |
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Rate at which the population grows.
(Ex:2,4,8,16...) |
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Rate at which food supplies grows
(Ex:2,3,4,5,6...) |
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| People that study, and beleive that Malthu's theory could still be a reality. |
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| Number of live births in a given uear, per 1,000. |
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| The average of number children a women will have during her child bearing years. |
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| When the Population reaches the end of the child bearing years, and then thier population slowly declines. |
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| Numeber of deaths in a given per year, per 1,000 person |
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| Number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per year, per 1,000 live births |
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| Average Number of years a child can live, if the current mortality rate holds. |
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| Demographic transition Theory |
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| Theory that state that variations that a country goes threw have an over all global pattern. |
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| Epideiological transition |
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| A significant drop in death rate |
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| A decrease in the occurance of epidimics due to imunities biult up by the population. |
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| Stationary Population Level (SLP) |
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| Time periode predicted around the 21st century, where countries will stop growing. |
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| Restrictive Population Policies |
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| Ways governments seek to reduce the rate of Natural increase through variouse forms. |
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| Repetitive movement that occurs on a regular basis |
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| Involves a permanent move to a new location |
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| Movement of people, ideas, and commodities within and between areas. |
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| Summerizes the population change over time in a area by combining natural change and net migration. |
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Migration from a location
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| Decline of an activity or function with increasing distance fromits point of origin. |
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| Long distance migraiondone in stages |
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| Fact that many who set out to move a long distance find good opportunities to settle before they reach thier destinations. |
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A measure of the interaction of places.
(Realtionship between the volume of migration and the distance between the source of destination). |
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| Distance beyond which, effort, and means strong influence willingness to travel. |
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| Encourages people ot move from the region they live in. |
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| One that attracts them to a new region. |
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| People Forced to migrate from thier homes an cannot return for fear of persecution because of their religion,race,nationality, or political opinion. |
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| Physical Features that halt or slow migration from one place to another. |
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| Migration betweem regions |
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| Place that has more Emigration, and less immigration |
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| Place that has more Immigration than emigradion |
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| People forced from their home due to ethnic strife, war, or natural disaster |
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| Tendency for types of people to move |
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| A stream of people out of an area as first movers communicate with people back home and stimulate others to follow further |
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| An area in which an invidual moves about as he or she pursues regular, day-to-day Activities |
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| The farther a place is from a person, the most likely that person will not know of the oppurtunities there |
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| Sets limits on peoples activities |
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