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| focuses on the number, composition, and distribution of human beings on earth's surface |
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| which each dot representing a certain number of people |
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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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| land that is suited for agriculture |
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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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| which is based on the principle that everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends |
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| An important way to analyze population is to use a graphic device |
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| is a category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important |
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| is less based on physical characteristics, and emphasizes a shared culture heritage, such as language, religion and customs |
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| percentage by which the population grew |
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| domestication of plants and animals meant that human beings created larger and more stable sources of food |
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| the length of time needed to double the population |
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| which began in England in the latter half of the 18th century and spread to other parts of Europe and North America during 19th century. |
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| the trend toward rapid population increase in place since 1750 |
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| is less based on physical characteristics, and emphasizes a shared culture heritage, such as language, religion and customs |
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| percentage by which the population grew |
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| domestication of plants and animals meant that human beings created larger and more stable sources of food |
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| the length of time needed to double the population |
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| which began in England in the latter half of the 18th century and spread to other parts of Europe and North America during 19th century. |
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| the trend toward rapid population increase in place since 1750 |
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| movement set as its goal the leveling off the world`s population in order to insure that the earth would be able to sustain its inhabitats |
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| became the first critic to note that the world`s population was increasing faster than the food supplies needed to sustain its inhabitants |
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| food supplies linear growth |
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| population increases exponentially |
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| have continued t sound the alarm about population increase |
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| is the number of live births in a given year for every thousands people in a population. |
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| is the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years |
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| is the number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population |
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| is the number of deaths among infants under one year of age for each thousand live births in a given year. |
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| at birth measures the average number of years that a child can except to live if the current mortality rates hold. |
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| Demographic transition theory |
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| population patterns vary according to different levels of technological growth |
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| epidemiological transition (mortality revolution) |
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| the drop in the death rate became significant by the mid-19th century |
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| another explanation for the drop in death rates is that fatal epidemic diseases |
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| Stationary Population level |
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| a population level which populations stop growing |
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| a disease that began in Central Africa during the late 20th century |
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| Restrictive population policies |
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| policies that range from toleration of officially banned means of birth control to the actual prohibition of large families. |
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| repetitive movement that occurs on a regular basis |
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| is a different type of mobility because its involves a permanent move to a new location |
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| is the broad geographical term for the movement of peoples, ideas, and commodities within and between areas |
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| a migration within the borders of a country |
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| the decline of a activity |
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| long-distance migration done in stages is still the rule |
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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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| a measure of the interactions of places |
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| the distance beyond which cost, effort, and means strongly influence willingness to tavel |
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| encourages people to move from the region that they live in |
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| is one that attracts them to a new region |
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| the people that moved from their country because of their religion, race, nationality or political opinians |
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| physical features that halt |
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| the migrant chooses to move |
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| which means that more people emigrate from them than immigrate to them |
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| which means that more people immigrate to them than emigrate from them |
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| people forced from their home due to ethnic strife,war,or natural disasters |
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| This tendency for certain types of people in an area |
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| A stream of people out of an area as first movers communicate with people back home and stimulate other to fallow |
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| an area in which an individual moves about as he or she pursues regular |
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| may be limited as well so that their knowledge of opportunity locations beyond the normal activity space is minimal |
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| that sets the limits for their activities |
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| Arithmetic Population Density |
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| the total number of people divided by total land area |
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| Population Concentrations |
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| Many cities located along rivers and it`s and in coastal areas |
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| whereas food supplies grow to |
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| Once the large base of young people grows beyond child-bearing age , the overall population will gradually decline |
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