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Undergraduate 1
02/05/2014

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how many people live on the planet earth?
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7 billion
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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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overpopulation
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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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overpopulation
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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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Arithmetic density
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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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Arthmetic density
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divide the total population by the land area
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Arthmetic density
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land that is suited for agriculture
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arable land
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the number of people supported by a unit area arable land is called
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physiological density
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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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physiological density
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the ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land
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Argicultural density
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measuring agricultural density helps account for economic differences
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Agricultural density
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have lower agricultural densities because of the technology takes up space
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developed countries
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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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82 million
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the number of years needed to double a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase
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doubling time
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how much will the global population be in the world by 2100
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24 billion
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where is 97 percent of lcustered at?
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developing countries
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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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Crude birth rate (CBR)
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hwo many babies are born for every 1,000 people?
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20 over a 1 year period
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the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in society
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Crude Death Rate
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how is the NIR computed?
Definition
subtracting CDR from CBR, the convert the 2 measures from numbers per 1,000 to percentages
Term
when the number of births exceeds the number of deaths by only a small margin what happens to population?
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increases
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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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Europe
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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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Life Expectancy
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how old are msot of the people in developing countries?
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15
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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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dependency ratio
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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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population pyramid
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a process with several stages and every country is in one of them
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demographic transition
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