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| some measurements of land area |
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| Approximately 75% of Earth’s population occupies only about ____ of land area |
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| areas used by the census bureau for the collection of data |
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not to make assumptions about individuals based on generalizations or statistical averages |
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| All settlements are in some way connected to the |
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| availability of resources or access to ways making a living |
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| The rise of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s was in a large measure the result of |
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| gloomy predictions about Earth’s capacity to support life |
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The four key questions of population geography are |
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1. Why is the population concentrated in some places and not in the others?
2. What will be the pattern is years to come?
3. How does this pattern of distribution reflect a place’s economy?
4. How has it been influenced by changes in the economy? |
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| The first dramatic change in population came with the |
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| an anomaly in a population pyramid that causes repeat phenomena in an x amount of time in the future |
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| Four innovations in agriculture that resulted in the medical revolution are |
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1. New crop rotation and fertilization
2. More efficient farming tools
3. Better transportation
4. Better medicine and sanitation |
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| _____________ triggered population growth unlike that previously experienced |
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| Doubling time occurs much more quickly now than in the past even though fertility rates have fallen because |
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| the population base is so much larger |
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| The assumption behind demographic transition model is that |
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| all countries will share a common characteristic leading to high low growth equilibrium |
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| The demographic transition model may not apply to non-European countries because |
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their social cultural standards are different |
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| The area in the world with the highest fertility rate is |
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| The fertility rates vary inversely with |
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| Sweden death rates are higher than Libya because |
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| Sweden’s population’s is older |
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Children under the age of 1 are vulnerable to |
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1. Poor living conditions
2. Inadequate food supply
3. Lack of sanitation
4. Lack of clean water |
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| The fastest growing cohort group is called |
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| the oldest old (people over the age of 85) |
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| Epidemiological transition refers to |
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| changes in age structure as death shift from younger to older cohorts |
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| Three main causes of mortality in less developed countries are |
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| aids, tuberculosis, and pregnancy related conditions |
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| Life expectancy varies according to |
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| socio economic status, race, and ethnicity |
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| Three nations who identity has been profoundly influenced by migration are |
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| U.S., Canada, and Australia |
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| one who is forced to leave his homeland due to war or unstable political conditions |
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| The population age structure of many of the oil rich nations in the Persian Gulf is skewed because |
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| there are so many guest workers there |
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| refers to the fact that the greater the distance one must travel the fewer number of people will make the trip |
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| states that the optimal for a service is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related the distance they must travel to access it |
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