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Population

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Demographic Transition Model   Demographic transition (DT) refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.  
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Industrial   of, relating to, or characterized by industry.  
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Industrial Revolution   Industrial Revolution' A period of major industrialization that took place during the late 1700s and early 1800s. The Industrial Revolution, beginning in Great Britain, quickly spread throughout the world.  
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Crude Birth Rate   The crude birth rate is the number of live births occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year.  
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Crude Death Rate   The crude death rate is the number of live deaths occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year.  
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Natural Increase Rate   In demographics, the rate of natural increase (RNI) is the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population.  
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Total Fertility   The TFR represents the average number of children a woman would have through her lifetime.  
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Infant Mortality Rate   The IMR is the estimate of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births.  
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Zero Population Growth   The maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population.  
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Primary Economic Activity   Primary Economic Activities are those activities where natural resources are extracted from the Earth.  
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Infrastructure   The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.  
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Subsistence Farming   Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed the family.  
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Agricultural Production   The science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming. 2. the production of crops, livestock, or poultry. 3. agronomy.  
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Replacement Babies   Babies that were back ups if one dies to help the family grow to farm for the family.  
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Famine   Extreme scarcity of food.  
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Epidemic   A sudden, widespread occurrence of a particular undesirable phenomenon.  
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Pandemic   (of a disease) prevalent over a whole county or the world.  
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Agricultural Revolution   An agricultural revolution or agrarian revolution is a period of transition from the pre-agricultural period characterized by a Paleolithic diet, into an agricultural period characterized by a diet of cultivated foods.  
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Mechanization   Mechanization or mechanization (BE) is the process of doing work with machinery. In an early engineering text a machine is defined as follows:  
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The Medical Revolution   A medical revolution that are improvements in the technology and the medical tools. Also resulted in lower deaths.  
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