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demography   show
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show focus on the spatial aspects of demography  
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population policies   show
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show the locations on the Earth's surface where individuals live  
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dot map   show
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arithmetic population density   show
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show The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.  
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show farmable  
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largest population concentrations   show
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show huge urban agglomerations  
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show a periodic and official count of a country's population  
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show one dot on a world population density map  
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linear growth   show
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exponential growth   show
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show the time required for a population to double in size  
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show the rapid groth of the world's human population during the past century, attended by ever-shorter doubling times and accelerating rates of increase  
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show population's make up in terms of age, sex, and other properties such as marital status and education  
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Population structure   show
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age-sex pyramid   show
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show the study of population  
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natural increase   show
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show the number of live births per year per thousand people in the population  
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show the number of deaths per thousand  
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show measure of the number of children born to women of childbearing age  
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infant mortality   show
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Demographic Change   show
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show sequence of stages observed in the population records of several European countries.  
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show represented by stages 2 (early expanding stage) and 3 (late expanding stage during which high birth & death rates decline.  
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High Stationary stage   show
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show with high fertility and declining mortality  
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Late Expanding Stage   show
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show with low fertility and low mortality, and very low rate of growth.  
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show The level when the world's population would stabilize and that the major problems to be faced would involve the aged rather than the young.  
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show persisted long after agriculture was introduced.  
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state   show
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show period between 7000 b.p. and 5000 b.p.. Development of states and urbanization, going hand in hand, in SW Asia.  
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Agricultural Revolution   show
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First Agricultural revolution   show
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Second Agricultural revolution   show
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show currently in progress. is based on new high-yielding strains of grains and other crops developed by genetic engineering.  
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show Literally, cultivable. Land fit for cultivation by one farming method over another.  
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agglomeration   show
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show population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area. The figure is derived by dividing the population of the areal unit by the number of square kilometers or miles that make up the unit.  
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show The number of inhabitants per unit of agricultural land. As used in population geography, agricultural density excludes urban residents so that it reflects the pressure of population in rural areas.  
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Physiologic density   show
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show in political geography, the system of integration and movement through language, education, transportation, and communications.  
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demographic tranistion model   show
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show a description of the quantity per unit area of a given object or living organism.  
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distance decay   show
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show A disease that is particular to a locality or region.  
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show A basis for human identity based on a combination of pieople's cultural traints (traditions, customs, languate, and religion) and ideas abou their ancestry and race.  
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show term applied to the social and economic chgs in agriculture, commerce, and manufacturing that resulted from technological innovations and specialization in late-eighteenth century Europe  
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life expectancy   show
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show official policy launched by China in 1979 to induce married couples to have only one child in an effort to control population growth  
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show An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide  
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population explosion   show
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population geography   show
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show positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas.  
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Push Factor   show
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Race   show
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show people who have been dislocated involuntarily from their original place of settlement.  
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restrictive population policy   show
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show The portion of the world's land surface that is permanently settled by human beings.  
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show government whose leaders rule by absolute control, tolerating no differences of political opinion.  
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