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Population Key Issues, Vocabulary

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Definition
Demography   the study of births, deaths, income, or knowledgement of diseases  
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Overpopulation   the number of people compared to the relevant resources  
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Ecumene   Land where people have their home and jobs areas that are occupied for economic purposes  
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Arithmetic Density   People/ area of land  
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Physiological Density   population/ area arable land  
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Agricultural Density   rural population/ area of arable land  
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Crude Birth Rate   amount of live births among the population of a given area  
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Crude Death Rate   amount of deaths among the population of a given area  
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Natural Increase Rate   the difference in the % of human birth compared to deaths  
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Doubling time   time and size doubles over time  
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Total Fertility Rate   % of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime  
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Infant Mortality Rate   An estimate of infant deaths compared to births  
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Life Expectancy   The average amount of time a human can live  
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Demographic Transition Model (DTM)   The balance between high birth rates and high death rates  
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Agricultural Revolution   a diet of cultivated foods  
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Industrial Revolution   the making of new products that could increase activation in human life  
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Medical Revolution   the making of medicaid that could or ha or will change mankind  
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Zero Population Growth   a constant rate of births and deaths  
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Population Pyramid   different age groups put in a pyramid to compare  
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Primary Economic Activity   activities where natural resources are brought from the ground  
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Infrastructure   physical structures of an area  
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Subsistence Farming   farming that provides enough food for the farmer and his/her family, not enough to sell or give out  
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Mechanization   to go from working with hands to using machines  
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Replacement Babies   a child who is conceived to replaced a deceased child  
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Famine   Extreme source of food  
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Epidemiology   medicine that deals with possible controls of diseases and other factors that deals with health  
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Epidemic   a quick occurrence of an infectious disease in a community during a certain time  
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Pandemic   a disease prevalent over a country or the world  
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Phenomenon   a fact that is observed to happen; a theory that is in need to be proven  
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Health care   the improvement of mental and physical health through medical services  
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Outliers   a person/thing situated away/ detached from the main body or system  
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Family Planning   the practice of controlling a number of children in a family between their births  
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Contraceptives   a drug or substance to stop pregnancy  
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Economics   knowledge concerned with the the up making, consumption, and transfer of wealth  
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Politics   activities associated with the government of a country or area, the debate or conflict among the people or parties having or hoping to achieve power  
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Sociocultural   the combination of social and cultural factors  
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Advantageous   involving or making circumstances that increase the % of success of beneficial effects  
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Alleviate   to make something less severe  
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Stabilization   to make something stable, steadfast or firm  
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Education   to receive or give knowledgeable facts or systematic instruction at a school or university  
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Primary Education   the first stage of education by teaching/ learning easy subjects (Elementary School & 6/7th grade of Middle)  
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Secondary Education   the last 4 years of formal teaching in either high school or 8th grade of middle school  
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Higher Education   Education in a college/university  
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Gender Empowerment   designed to measure of gender equality  
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Integrated   to be questioned or assaulted until getting the answered that someone looking for  
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Age dependency ratio   a ratio that tells people if they’re allowed somewhere or not  
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Sex Ratio   a ratio that determines whether or not a male or female is allowed in an area  
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Baby boomers   a person born in the years following WW2, which was the time of birth rates increasing  
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Indicative   a sign or indication of something  
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Urbanization   a population shift from rural to urban areas, and how society gets used to the change in the lifestyles  
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