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Demography   The scientific study of population characteristics  
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Ecumene   A portion of the Earth occupied by permanent human settlement  
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Arithmetic Density   Toatal number of people divied by total land area  
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Physiological Density   Number of people per unit of land suitable for agriculture  
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Agricultural Density   Number of farmers per unit of land suitable for agriculture  
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Crude Birth Rate(CBR)   Total number of live births per year for every 1000 people alive  
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Crude Death Rate(CDR)   Total number of deaths per 1000 people alive  
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Natural Increase Rate(NIR)   The percentage by which a population grows each year  
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Doubling Time   Number of years needed to double a population  
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Infant Mortality Rate(IMR)   Annual number of deaths of infant under 1 year of age per 1000 people in the population  
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Life Expectancy   The average number of years a newborn can hope to live at birth  
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Demographic Transition   Similar processes of change in society's population broken down into 4 stages  
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Agricultural Revolution   Burst of population growth around 8000BC where humans domesticated plants and animals  
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Census   A complete enumeration of a population  
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Zero Population Growth(ZPG)   When birth rate equals death rate  
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Population Pyramid   Graphic thast shows percentage of the total population by age group and gender  
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Dependency Ratio   Ratio of the number of people too old or too young to work compared to people in their productive year  
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Sex Ratio   Males to Females  
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Pandemic   A disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a high proportion of the population  
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Total Fertility Rate(TFR)   Average number of children a women will have during her childbearing years.  
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Medical Revolution   Late 20th century push of countries into stage 2 caused by new medical technology  
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Epidemiologic Transition   Focuses on distinctive causes of death in each deomgraphic transition model  
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Epidemiology   BRanch of science concered with incidence, distribution, and control of diseases  
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Overpopulation   The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living  
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Industrial Revolution   A conjuntionof major industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and delivering them to markets- 1750  
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