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Human Geography

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Demography   the study of general population trends.  
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Population Density   measure of total population relative to land area.  
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Arithmetic Population Density   Number of people per unit area of land. To calculate: Divide the population of an area by the amount of land (in sq miles or sq km).  
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Population Distribution   the description of the pattern in the spatial arrangement of people, including where large numbers of people live closely together (clustering) and where few people live (dispersed)..  
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Dot Maps   Thematic map where individual symbols represent a certain number of cases of a phenomenon. For example, a map where one dot represents 100,000 people.  
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Megalopolis   An urban agglomeration that stretches from Washington, DC in the south to Boston, Massachusetts in the north.  
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Natural increase rate   Difference between number of births and deaths in a year. Positive if births exceed deaths and negative if deaths exceed births. Does not include emigration and immigration.  
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Crude birth rate (CBR)   the number of live births per year per thousand people.  
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Crude death rate (CDR)   the number of deaths per year per thousand people.  
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Contraceptive prevalence rate   the percentage of women ages 15 to 49 who are currently using or whose partner is currently using at least one contraceptive method.  
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Doubling time   Time required for a population to double in size.  
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Total fertility rate (TFR)   the average number of children born to women of childbearing age (between 15 and 49).  
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Old-age dependency ratio   the relationship between the number of people over the age of 65 and the working-age population between 15 and 64.  
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Child dependency ratio   Number of people between the ages of 0 and 14 for every 100 people between the ages of 15-64 (working age population).  
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Population composition   the structure of a population in terms of age, sex, and other properties such as marital status and education.  
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Population pyramids   graphic representations of the age and sex composition of a population  
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Demographic Transition   a model suggesting that a country’s birth rate and death rate change in predictable ways over stages of economic development  
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Zero population growth   A state in which a population is maintained at a constant level because the number of deaths is exactly offset by the number of births.  
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Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)   the probability that a child will die before reaching the age of 1 year.  
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Life expectancy   the average number of years a person is expected to live  
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Epidemiology transition   holds that as a country moves from high population growth rates to stable population growth rates, the causes of death and the age at which people are afflicted by disease change.  
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Infectious diseases   Diseases that are spread by bacteria, viruses, or parasites. Infectious diseases diffuse directly or indirectly from human to human.  
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Degenerative diseases   Diseases that come with old age.  
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Genetic or Inherited Diseases   Diseases that trace back to our genetic makeup  
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Malaria   Vectored disease spread by a certain type of mosquitoes.  
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Expansive population policies   encourage large families and raise the rate of natural increase.  
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Eugenic population policies   designed to favor one racial or cultural group by discouraging ostracized groups from having children.  
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Restrictive population policies   designed to reduce a population’s natural increase rate.  
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