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| An area in which an individual moves about as he or she persues regular |
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| Agricultural (or Neolithic) Revolution |
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| Humans first domesticated plants and animals and created larger and more stable food sources |
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(Acuired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
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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| Arithmetic (or Crude) Population Density |
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| Total number of people divided by the total land area |
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| knowledge of opportunity locations beyond the activity space |
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| The number of people an area can support on a sustained basis |
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| A stream of people out of an area as first moves communicate with people back home and stimulate others to follow later |
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| Short-term, repetitive movement that occurs on a regular basis |
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| The distance beyong which cost, effort and means 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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| Also called Mortality Rate; the number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population |
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| Summarizes the population change over time in an area by area by combining natural change and net migration |
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| Once the large base of young people growss beyond child-bearing age, the overall population will gradually decline |
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| Demographic Transition Theory |
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| Population patterns very according to different levels of technological development, but all countries go through the same four stages |
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| Condition of being out of place |
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| The decline of an activity or function with increasing distance from its point of origin |
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| A map with dots representing people |
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| Length of time needed to double the population |
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| Migration from a location |
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| Native to or confined to a certain region |
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| Epidemiologic Transition (Mortality Revolution) |
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| Drop in death rate that became significant by the mid 19th century |
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| Emphasizes a shared cultural heritage like language, religion, and customs |
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| Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate |
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| The killing of baby girls |
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| When someone is forced to migrate (involuntary) |
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| Population increases exponentially; series of numbers 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 |
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| A measure of interaction of places |
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| the change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production, especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850 |
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| Number of deaths among infants under one year of age for each thousand live births in a given year |
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| More peopel immigrate to them than emigrate from them |
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| Migration within the borders of a country |
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| Migration from one region to another |
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| Physical features that hault or slow 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 they reach their destinations |
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| Migration within a region |
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| At 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 tiem interval |
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| A british economist that 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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| Permanent move to a new location |
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| The tendency of certain types of people to move |
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| The difference between the number of births and the number of deaths during a specific period of time |
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| The underpinning of international programs for population limitations by birth control and family planning |
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| The restriction to only having one child |
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| More people emmigrate from them than immigrate to them |
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| The circumstance of too many people for the land to support |
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| Physiologcal Population Density |
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| Measure the pressure that people may place on the land to produce enough food |
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| Population Concentrations |
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| Arrangement or spread of people in a given area. Most concentrated in: East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe |
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| Teh trend toward rapid population increase in place since 1750 |
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| The number, composition, and distribution of human beings on eath's surface |
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| A graphic device that represents age and sex composition to analyze population |
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| something that attracts people into a country |
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| Something that drives people away from a country |
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| categry composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important |
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| A british demographer who wrote 11 migration laws which he based on the study of internal migration in England in 1885 |
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| People who are 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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| Government policies designed to reduce the rate of natural increase |
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| the set of limits for 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 (SPL) |
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| Level at which a country stops growing |
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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 in her child-bearing years (from about 15 to 49) |
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| When you choose to migrate |
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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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