| Population |
Definition |
| NEO-MALTHUSIAN | theory that builds upon Malthus’ thoughts on overpopulation. Takes into count two factors that Malthus did not: population growth in LDC’s, and outstripping of resources other than food
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| OVERPOPULATION | The # of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
| POPULATION DENSITIES | A measurement of the number of people per givin unit of land |
| POPULATION DISTRIBUTIONS | Description of locations on the Earths surface where populations live |
| POPULATION EXPLOSION | The rapid growth of the worlds human population during the past century, attended by ever-shorter doubling-times and accelerating rates of increase |
| POPULATION PROJECTION | predicts the future population of an area or the world
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| POPULATION PYRAMID | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex |
| RATE OF NATURAL INCREASE | How much the population increses compared to natural decreses |
| S-CURVE | traces the cyclical movement upwards and downwards in a graph |
| SEX RATIO | The ratio of men to women |
| STANDARD OF LIVING | refers to the quality and quantity of goods and services available to people and the way they are distributed within a population |
| SUSTAINABILITY | providing the best outcomes for human and natural environments both in the present and for the future |
| UNDERPOPULATION | it is the opposition to overpopulation and refers to a sharp drop or decrease in a region’s population |
| ZERO POPULATION GROWTH | A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increse rate equals zero |
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