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| how many people live on the planet earth? |
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| is not a matter of the total number of people on earth, but rather it depends on the relationship between the number of people and the availability of recources |
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| a threat where an area's population exceeds the capticity of the environment to support it at an acceptable standard of the living |
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| the places where humans are msot clustered up |
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| East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe |
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| the total number of people divided by total land area |
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| geogrpahers rely on this to compare conditions in different countries because the two peices of information needed to calculate the measure are easy to obtain |
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| divide the total population by the land area |
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| land that is suited for agriculture |
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| the number of people supported by a unit area arable land is called |
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| the higher the physiological density the higher the |
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| pressure that people may place on the land to produce enough food |
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| provides insights into the relationship between the size of a population and the availability of resources |
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| the ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land |
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| measuring agricultural density helps account for economic differences |
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| have lower agricultural densities because of the technology takes up space |
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| to understand relationships between population and resources in a country, geographers examine a country's |
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| physiological and agricultural densities togeather |
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| the percentage by which a population grows in a year |
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| natural increase rate (NIR) |
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| how many people are being added to the population of the world annualy |
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| the number of years needed to double a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
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| how much will the global population be in the world by 2100 |
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| where is 97 percent of lcustered at? |
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| the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
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| hwo many babies are born for every 1,000 people? |
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| the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in society |
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| subtracting CDR from CBR, the convert the 2 measures from numbers per 1,000 to percentages |
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| when the number of births exceeds the number of deaths by only a small margin what happens to population? |
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| is the average number of children a woman will have throughout her chilbearing years |
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| total fertility rate (TFR) |
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| the annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age for every 1,000 live births |
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| Infant mortality rate (IMR) |
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| is usually expressed as the number of deaths among infants per 1,000 births rather than as a percentage |
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| Infant mortality rate (IMR) |
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| where are the highest IMRs? |
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| poor countries like sub-saharan africa |
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| where are the lowest rates? |
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| measures the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live, assuming current mortality levels |
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| how old are msot of the people in developing countries? |
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| the number of people who are too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years |
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| a bar graph that displays the percentage of a palce's population for each age and gender |
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| a process with several stages and every country is in one of them |
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