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Unit 2
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Geography
9th Grade
09/20/2013

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Term
Demography
Definition
study of population
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Population Geography
Definition
focuses on the number, composition, and distribution of human beings on earth's surface
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Dot Maps
Definition
which each dot representing a certain number of people
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Physiological population density
Definition
measures the pressure that people may place on the land to produce enough food
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Arable Land
Definition
land that is suited for agriculture
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Overpopulation
Definition
the circumstance of too many people for the land to support
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Carrying Capacity
Definition
the number of people an area can support on a sustained basis.
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Sustainability
Definition
which is based on the principle that everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends
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Population Pyramid
Definition
An important way to analyze population is to use a graphic device
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Race
Definition
is a category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important
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Ethnicity
Definition
is less based on physical characteristics, and emphasizes a shared culture heritage, such as language, religion and customs
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Natural Increase
Definition
percentage by which the population grew
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Agricultural Revolution
Definition
domestication of plants and animals meant that human beings created larger and more stable sources of food
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Doubling Rate
Definition
the length of time needed to double the population
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Industrial Revolution
Definition
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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Population Explosion
Definition
the trend toward rapid population increase in place since 1750
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Ethnicity
Definition
is less based on physical characteristics, and emphasizes a shared culture heritage, such as language, religion and customs
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Natural Increase
Definition
percentage by which the population grew
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Agricultural Revolution
Definition
domestication of plants and animals meant that human beings created larger and more stable sources of food
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Doubling Rate
Definition
the length of time needed to double the population
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Industrial Revolution
Definition
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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Population Explosion
Definition
the trend toward rapid population increase in place since 1750
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zero population growth
Definition
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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Thomas Malthus
Definition
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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exponential growth
Definition
population growths fast
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linear growth
Definition
food supplies linear growth
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geometric rate
Definition
population increases exponentially
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neo-Malthusians
Definition
have continued t sound the alarm about population increase
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Crude Birth Rate
Definition
is the number of live births in a given year for every thousands people in a population.
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Total fertility rate
Definition
is the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
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Crude death rate
Definition
is the number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population
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Infant Mortality rate
Definition
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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Life expectancy
Definition
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
Definition
population patterns vary according to different levels of technological growth
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epidemiological transition (mortality revolution)
Definition
the drop in the death rate became significant by the mid-19th century
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endemic
Definition
another explanation for the drop in death rates is that fatal epidemic diseases
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Stationary Population level
Definition
a population level which populations stop growing
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AIDS
Definition
a disease that began in Central Africa during the late 20th century
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Pandemic
Definition
widespread epidemic
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Restrictive population policies
Definition
policies that range from toleration of officially banned means of birth control to the actual prohibition of large families.
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Circulation
Definition
repetitive movement that occurs on a regular basis
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Migration
Definition
is a different type of mobility because its involves a permanent move to a new location
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Spatial Interaction
Definition
is the broad geographical term for the movement of peoples, ideas, and commodities within and between areas
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Emigration
Definition
a migration from a place
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Immigration
Definition
migration to a location
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Internal Migration
Definition
a migration within the borders of a country
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Distance Decay
Definition
the decline of a activity
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Step Migration
Definition
long-distance migration done in stages is still the rule
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Intervening Opportunity
Definition
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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Gravity Model
Definition
a measure of the interactions of places
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Critical Distance
Definition
the distance beyond which cost, effort, and means strongly influence willingness to tavel
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Push Factor
Definition
encourages people to move from the region that they live in
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Pull Factor
Definition
is one that attracts them to a new region
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Refugees
Definition
the people that moved from their country because of their religion, race, nationality or political opinians
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intervening obstacles
Definition
physical features that halt
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inter regional migration
Definition
between regions
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intra-regional migration
Definition
within one region
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Forced Migration
Definition
involuntary migration
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Voluntary Migration
Definition
the migrant chooses to move
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out-migration
Definition
which means that more people emigrate from them than immigrate to them
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in-migration
Definition
which means that more people immigrate to them than emigrate from them
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Dislocation
Definition
people forced from their home due to ethnic strife,war,or natural disasters
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Migration Selectivity
Definition
This tendency for certain types of people in an area
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Chain Migration
Definition
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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Activity Space
Definition
an area in which an individual moves about as he or she pursues regular
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Awareness space
Definition
may be limited as well so that their knowledge of opportunity locations beyond the normal activity space is minimal
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Space-time prism
Definition
that sets the limits for their activities
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Arithmetic Population Density
Definition
the total number of people divided by total land area
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Population Concentrations
Definition
Many cities located along rivers and it`s and in coastal areas
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Arithmetic Rate
Definition
whereas food supplies grow to
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Demographic Momentum
Definition
Once the large base of young people grows beyond child-bearing age , the overall population will gradually decline
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