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Population
Mr. Coop's Extra credit
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Geography
9th Grade
10/02/2013

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Agricultural density
Definition
total number of farmers :
total amount of land suitable for farming
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Agricultural revolution
Definition
The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals.
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Cencus
Definition
A complete enumeration of population
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Crude birth rates
Definition
The total number of births in a year every 1000 people alive in society
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Crude death rate
Definition
the total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people dead in the society
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Demographic transition
Definition
the stages countries go through do to CBR ,CDR ,and high/low birth rates
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Demography
Definition
The scientific study of population characteristics
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Pandemic
Definition
Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affect a very high portion of the population.
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Dependancy ratio
Definition
the number of people udner the age of 16 and over the age of 64 compared to the number of people active in labor force
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Doubling time
Definition
The number of years it takes to double a population
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Ecumene
Definition
the potions of earth's surface occupied by human surface.
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Epidemeologic transition
Definition
distictive causes of death in each stage of demographic transition
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Industrial revolution
Definition
a series of industrial technology improvement
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Infant Mortality Rate
Definition
The total amout of death of infants in a year under 1 years old.
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life Expectancy
Definition
the average number of years an individual is expected to live
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medical revolution
Definition
Medical technology invented in europe and created in north america that is diffused to poorer countries
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Natural increase rate
Definition
the percentage of population growth in a year
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Overpopulation
Definition
the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the enviorment to support a life at a decent standard of learning
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population pyramid
Definition
a bar graph representing the distrabution of population by age and sex
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sex ratio
Definition
the number of males per 100 females in the population
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activity space
Definition
an area in which an individual moves about as he or she does daily
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AiDS
Definition
a disease that spread to many countries before the end of the century
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Arable land
Definition
land able to be used for farming
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Arithmetic Growth
Definition
total number of people divided by the total land area
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Awareness space
Definition
may be limited as weel so that their own will so that their knowledge of oppurtunity will be limited
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Carrying capacity
Definition
the number of people an area can sustain
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circulation
Definition
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critical distance
Definition
the distance beyond cost, effort, and means to strongly influence willingness to travel
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Demographic equation
Definition
this is the tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution
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Density
Definition
the amount of people in a given area
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Dislocation
Definition
people forced from their home due to ethnic strife, war, or natural disasters
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Distance decay
Definition
when people lose their culture due to migration
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Dot Maps
Definition
Population Maps may be drawn at different scales usually in the form of dot maps, with each dot representing a certain amount of people
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Emigration
Definition
migration from a native country
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Endemic
Definition
fatal epidemic disease
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Ethnicity
Definition
state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition
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exponential growth
Definition
illustrated by the series of numbers 4,8,16,32,because once children are born, they grow up to have children of their own
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female infanticide
Definition
killing of baby girls
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Forced Migration
Definition
when people are forced to migrate due to opurtunities
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Geometric rate
Definition
population increases exponentially
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Inmigration
Definition
more people immigrate to them than migrate from them
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immagration
Definition
When people migrate illegally
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Internal Migration
Definition
migration within the borders of that country
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interviening oppurtunity
Definition
good oppurtunities found along the way
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Thomas Malthus
Definition
became the first critic to note that the world's population was increasing faster than the food supplies beeded to sustain it
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Migration Selectivity
Definition
tendency for certain types of people to move
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migration
Definition
movement from one country to another
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neo-Malthusians
Definition
people you think oposite of thomas
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one child policy
Definition
1 child per couple
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Out migration
Definition
means that more people emigrate from them than immigrate to them
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Population Concentrations
Definition
Two-thirds of the world is concentrated in four regions: East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, & Western Europe
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population explosions
Definition
the trend toward rapid population increase in place since 1750
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Population Geography
Definition
focuses on number, composition, and distribution of human beings on earth's surface
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Pull factors
Definition
things that make people to go
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Push factor
Definition
forced to move because of enviormental or other issues
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eatnst
Definition
1885 British demographer that wrote 11 migration laws, which he based on his study of internal migration in England
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Refugees
Definition
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
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Restrictive Population Policies
Definition
polices range from toleration of officially banned means of birth control to the actual prohibition of large families
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Space time Prism
Definition
limits set for activities
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Spatial Interaction
Definition
the broad geographical term for the movement of peoples, ideas and commodities within and between arras, whether it is circulation or migration
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Stationary Population Level
Definition
countries will stop growing at some time during the 21 century
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Step Migration
Definition
long-distance migration done in stages
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Sustainability
Definition
to keep in existance
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voluntary migration
Definition
movement by humans from one place to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups
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zero population grownth
Definition
population is maintained at a constant level by a balance between the number of births and deaths
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