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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  
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POPULATION DENSITIES   A measurement of the number of people per givin unit of land  
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POPULATION DISTRIBUTIONS   Description of locations on the Earths surface where populations live  
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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  
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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  
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RATE OF NATURAL INCREASE   How much the population increses compared to natural decreses  
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S-CURVE   traces the cyclical movement upwards and downwards in a graph  
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SEX RATIO   The ratio of men to women  
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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  
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SUSTAINABILITY   providing the best outcomes for human and natural environments both in the present and for the future  
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UNDERPOPULATION   it is the opposition to overpopulation and refers to a sharp drop or decrease in a region’s population  
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ZERO POPULATION GROWTH   A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increse rate equals zero  
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