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demography   the study of population  
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population geography   focus on the spatial aspects of demography  
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population policies   policies that countries have dealing with control over immigration and internal relocation  
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population distribution and density   the locations on the Earth's surface where individuals live  
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dot map   population density and distribution map  
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arithmetic population density   the population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area. Population of area divided by the number of sq. miles or km.  
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physiologic population density   The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.  
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arable land   farmable  
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largest population concentrations   all found in Eurasia  
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megalopolis   huge urban agglomerations  
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census   a periodic and official count of a country's population  
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100,000 people   one dot on a world population density map  
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linear growth   increases occur in uniform amount during a series of equal time periods.  
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exponential growth   cumulative or compound growth (of a population) over a given period of time  
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doubling time   the time required for a population to double in size  
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population explosion   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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Composition   population's make up in terms of age, sex, and other properties such as marital status and education  
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Population structure   graphic representation (profile) of a population according to age and work  
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age-sex pyramid   graphic representation (profile) of a population showing the percentages of the total population by age and sex, normally in five-year groups  
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demography   the study of population  
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natural increase   the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths during a specific time period  
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crude birth rate   the number of live births per year per thousand people in the population  
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crude death rate   the number of deaths per thousand  
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total fertility rate   measure of the number of children born to women of childbearing age  
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infant mortality   a figure that describes the number of babies that die within the first year of their lives in a given population.  
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Demographic Change   TP=OP+B-D+I-E  
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demographic cycle   sequence of stages observed in the population records of several European countries.  
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demographic transition   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   with high fertility (births) and high morality (deaths) and variable population, but little long-term growth  
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Early Expanding Stage   with high fertility and declining mortality  
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Late Expanding Stage   with declining fertility but, as a result of already-low mortality, continuing significant growth  
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Low Stationary Stage   with low fertility and low mortality, and very low rate of growth.  
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Stationary population level (spl)   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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Egalitarian societies   persisted long after agriculture was introduced.  
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state   Politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and recognized by significant portion of intern'l community. A state must contain permanent resident population, organized economy, and functioning internal circulation system  
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formative era   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   transformation of agricultural practices, systems, and production.  
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First Agricultural revolution   dating back 10k yrs, achieved plant and animal domestication.  
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Second Agricultural revolution   dovetailed with and benefited ffrom the Industrial revolution and witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce.  
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Third Agricultural revolution   currently in progress. is based on new high-yielding strains of grains and other crops developed by genetic engineering.  
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Arable land   Literally, cultivable. Land fit for cultivation by one farming method over another.  
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agglomeration   A process involving the clustering or concentrating of people or activities. The term often refers to manufacturing plants & businesses that benefit from close proximity because they share skilled-labor pools and technological and financial amenities.  
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Arithmetic population density   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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Agricultural density   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   measures the total population, urban and rural, against the agricultural land.  
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circulation   in political geography, the system of integration and movement through language, education, transportation, and communications.  
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demographic tranistion model   multistg mod based on W Euro exper, chgs in populaton grwth exhibitied by countries undergoing industrializion. Hi brth & dth rates followed by plunging dth rates, producing net population gain; followed by convergence brth & dth rates at lo overall level  
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density   a description of the quantity per unit area of a given object or living organism.  
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distance decay   The various degenerative effects of distance on human spatial structures and interactions  
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Endemic   A disease that is particular to a locality or region.  
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Ethnic   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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Industrial Revolution   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   indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live. Normally expressed in the context of a particular state.  
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one child policy   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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pandemic   An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide  
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population explosion   the rapid growth 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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population geography   A subdivision of human geography that focuses on the spatial aspects of demography and influence of demographic change on particular places.  
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Pull factor   positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas.  
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Push Factor   negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and migrate to a new locale  
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Race   categorization of human s based on skin color and other physical characteristics. Racial categories include social, political, biological differences.  
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refugees   people who have been dislocated involuntarily from their original place of settlement.  
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restrictive population policy   government policy designed to reduce the rate of natural increase.  
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Ecumene   The portion of the world's land surface that is permanently settled by human beings.  
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Totalitarian/Authoritarian   government whose leaders rule by absolute control, tolerating no differences of political opinion.  
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