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Area in which an individual moves about as he or she pursues regular day to day activities   ACTIVITY SPACE  
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Period of time where the domestication of plants and animals meant that human beings crated larger and more stable sources of food; therefore, more people survived.   AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION (Neolithic Revolution)  
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome   AIDS  
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Land that is suited for agriculture   ARABLE LAND  
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The total number of people divided by total land area   ARITHMETIC DENSITY  
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Knowledge of opportunity locations beyond the normal activity space   AWARENESS SPACE  
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The number of people an area can support on a sustained basis   CARRYING CAPACITY  
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A stream of people out of an area as first movers communicate with people back home and stimulate others to follow later   CHAIN MIGRATION  
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Type of short-term, repetitive movement that occurs on a regular basis   CIRCULATION  
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The distance beyond which cost, effort, and means strongnly influence willingness to travel   CRITICAL DISTANCE  
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The number of live births in a given year for every thousand people in a population.   CRUDE BIRTH RATE  
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The number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population   CRUDE DEATH RATE  
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Theory that states that population patterns vary according to different levels of technological development. All countries go through the same four to five stages depending on which point in the "transition" the country is in.   DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION THEORY  
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Study of population   DEMOGRAPHY  
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The number of people that live in a given area of land   POPULATION DENSITY  
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When people are forced from their home due to ethnic strife, war, or natural disasters   DISLOCATION  
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The decline of an activity or function with increasing distance from ist point of origin   DISTANCE DECAY  
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Type of map where each dot represents a certain number of people   DOT MAP  
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The length of time needed to double the popualtion   DOUBLING RATE  
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Migration from a location   EMIGRATION  
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When a fatal disease no longer threatens an group of people because the population developed partial immunities   ENDEMIC  
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When the drop in the death rates becase significant in the the mid-19th century   EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITION(MORTALITY REVOLUTION)  
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Shared cultural heritage   ETHNICITY  
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Part of Thomas Malthus' theory, where people grow at a geometric rate   EXPONENTIAL GROWTH  
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The killing of baby girls   FEMALE INFANTICIDE  
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Type of involuntary migration where people are forced to move out of their homelands due to ethnic strife, wars, or natural disasters   FORCED MIGRATION  
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Measure of the interaction of places. Model states that spatial interaction is directly related to the size fo teh populations and inversely realted to the distance between them.   GRAVITY MODEL  
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Migration to a location   IMMIGRATION  
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Time period, especially in England, where major improvements in technology were introduced that helped create an unprecedented amount of wealth   INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION  
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The number of deaths among infants under one year of age from each 1,000 live births ina given year   INFANT MORTALITY RATE  
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Where more people immigrate to an area than emigrate from an area. MORE PEOPLE IN THAN OUT.   IN-MIGRATION  
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Migration within a country's borders   INTERNAL MIGRATION  
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Migration between regions   INTER-REGIONAL MIGRATION  
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Physical features that slow or halt migration from one place to another   INTERVENING OBSTACLES  
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Fact that many who set out to move a long distance find good opportunities to settle before tehy reach tehir destinations   INTERVEINING OPPORTUNITY  
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Migration within one region   INTRA-REGIONAL MIGRATION  
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The measure of the average number of years that a child can expect to live if the current mortality rates hold   LIFE EXPECTANCY  
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Part of Thomas Malthus' theory where food is grown at an arithemtic rate. Food can not produce it self as quick as humans produce   LINEAR GROWTH  
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Permanent move to a new location   MIGRATION  
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Certain types of people are more likely to move based on age, education, and kinship/friendship ties   MIGRATION SELECTIVITY  
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The difference between the number of births and the number of deaths during a specific period.   NATURAL INCREASE  
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People who are alarmed by the population increase in the world; based on Thomas Malthus' theory   NEO-MALTHUSIANS  
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The difference between the emigration and immigration within a region or country   NET MIGRATION RATE  
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Policy in China that included both incentive and penalities to keep families in China from only having one child   ONE CHILD POLICY  
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More people emigrate from an area than immigrate to an area. MORE ARE LEAVING THAN COMIGN IN.   OUT-MIGRATION  
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Teh circumstance of too many people for the land to support   OVERPOPULATION  
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Widespread epidemic   PANDEMIC  
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Measures the pressure that people may place on the land to produce enough food   PHYSIOLOGIC POPULATION DENSITY  
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Areas of the world where 2/3 of teh world's population are concentrated at. Included the following regions: East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe   POPULATION CONCENTRATIONS  
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The trend of rapid population increases in place since 1750   POPULATION EXPLOSION  
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Study of population that focuses on the number, composition, and distribution of human beings on earth's surface.   POPULATION GEOGRAPHY  
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Graphic device to analyze population growth. Represents a population's age and sex composition   POPULATION PYRAMID  
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Factor that attracts someone to a new region.   PULL FACTOR  
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Factor that encourages someone to move from the region that they live in.   PUSH FACTOR  
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Category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important   RACE  
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People that have been forced to migrate from their homes and cannot return for fear of persectution because of their religion, race, nationality, or political opinions.   REFUGEE  
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Government programs used to reduce teh rate of natural increase through various policies   RESTRICTIVE POPULATION POLICIES  
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People have limited time for their activities   SPACE TIME PRISM  
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Term for the movement of peoples, ideas, and commodities within and between areas.   SPATIAL INTERACTION  
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Period of time where population will stop growing   STATIONARY POPULATION LEVEL  
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When long distance migration is done in steps   STEP MIGRATION  
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First critic to note that the human population was increasing faster than the food. Exponential Growth vs. Linear Growth   THOMAS MALTHUS  
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The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years.   TOTAL FERTILITY RATE  
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Type of migration where the migrant chooses to leave their region   VOLUNTARY MIGRATION  
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Leveling off the world's population growth in order to insure the Earth could supply for the current population   ZERO POPULATION GROWTH  
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