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Vocabulary Ap Human

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Age Distribution   population pyramid number of males and females in population in five year age groups  
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Carry Capacity   population that can be supposed, how people in an area that will be able to support  
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Cohort   population of various age categories in age-sex population pyramid, can tell country if in Stage 3 or 5 in demographic model  
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Demographic equation   Births-Deaths(+)(-) net migration, calculates population change in increase or decrease.  
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Demographic momentum   population to continue growing after birth decline because the young age distribution.  
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Demographic regions   shows the different parts of the world in the population transition.  
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Demographic Transition model   Stage 1- low growth Stage 2- High growth Stage 3- Moderate growth Stage 4-Low growth Stage 5- zero or negative  
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Dependency ratio   # of people who to you need to retire compared to people in work years.  
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Diffusion of fertility control   shows how many children per mother is having, to see the growth in population of declining.  
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Disease diffusion   Hierarchical-high density through urban and rural areas, Contagious spread through people. So can predict how it will spread.  
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Doubling time   the number of years to double population, with a constant NIR.  
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Ecumene   portion of earth surface with permanent human settlement.  
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Epidemiological transition model   cause of death in each stage of a DTM,and shows how populations in countries drastically change.  
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Infant mortality rate   IMR, the number of deaths of infants yearly, under the age one.  
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J-curve   projection population has growth, shaped as a J  
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Maladaption   Has a became not helpful than harmful. As the world changes the surrounding do to.  
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Malthus, Thomas   First to argue the rate of population increase was out numbering the source of food.  
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Mortality   mortality determines features of a country, an IMR and life expectancy can measure the death rate.  
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Natality   Ratio of living births in an area to the population in the area.  
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Neo-malthusian   theory that supports Malthus' thoughts on overpopulation.  
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Overpopulation   relationship between number of people on Earth, and availability of resources.  
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Population densities   frequency something occurs in space is density.  
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Arithmetic density   total number of objects in an area  
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Physiological density   number of people per unit of area suitable for agriculture.  
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Agricultural density   numbers of farmers compared to area of farmland.  
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Population distributions-   arrangement of features in a space  
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Population explosion-   sudden increase in population in a certain geographical area or worldwide.  
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Population projection   predicts future population of an area or in the world.  
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Population pyramid   population shown by age and gender on a bar graph.  
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Rate of natural increase   the percentage of how much the population grows in a year.  
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S-curve   the cyclical movement upwards and downwards on a graph.  
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Sex ratio   the number of makes per 100 females in the population.  
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Standard of living   quality and quantity of good and serices avaiable to people in the population.  
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Sustainability   the best outcomes for human and natural eniroment both in present and future.  
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Underpopulation   sharp drop in region's population  
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Zero population growth   CBR and CDR equal and the NIR approaches zero.  
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Activity space   space for certain industry or an activity.  
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Chain migration   when one family member moves to another country, and rest of family members come shortly after.  
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Cyclic movement   trends in migration and other processes with a clear cycle.  
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Distance Decay   contact between two groups diminishes because of the distance.  
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Forced Migration   people removed from the country because of environmental and cultural reasons.  
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Gravity Model   predicts that location of a service is by the number of people in an area, related to the distance to the people must travel.  
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Internal Migration   permanent movement in a country  
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Intervening Opportunity   environmental or cultural feature that helps increase migration.  
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Push-Pull Factors   factors that induce people to migrate to a new location and emigrate from their old location.  
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Intercontinental   Move from one country to another country in SAME continent  
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Interregional-   Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.  
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Rural-Urban   Permanent move from suburbs and rural areas to urban, city area.  
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Transhumance   Seasonal migration of live stock between lowland areas and mountain areas.  
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Refugee   people forced to migrate out their country, and cant return because the fear of death because of their race, religion,or nationality  
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Transmigration   to move from place or stage to another.  
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Step Migration   migration to a destination that occurs in stages  
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Personal Space   region surrounding a person, which is physiological theirs.  
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Voluntary Migration   movement in which people relocate on their own  
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Place Utility   place where a product is located for customers to buy.  
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