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APHG Unit 2 Population Barrons & Rubenstein

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Age-sex distribution   show
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show A cohort of individuals born in the U.S. between 1946&1964,which was just after WW II in a time of relative peace and prosperity.These conditions allowed for better education & job opportuni¬ties, encouraging high rates of both marriage and fertility.  
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show a). Period of time during the 1960s and 1970s when fertility rates in the U.S dropped as large numbers of women from the baby boom generation sought higher levels of education and more competitive jobs, caus¬ing them to marry later in life.  
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Baby bust Continued   show
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Carrying capacity   show
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show The migration event in which individuals follow the migra¬tory path of preceding friends or family members to an existing community.  
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Cohort   show
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Cotton Belt   show
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Crude birth rate   show
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show The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people.  
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show An equation that summarizes the amount of growth or decline in a population within a country during a partic-ular time period taking into account both natural increase and net migration.  
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Demographic transition model   show
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Demography   show
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show The ratio of the number of people who are either too old or young to provide for themselves to the number of people who must support them through their own labor. This is usually expressed in the form n : 100, where n equals the number of dependents.  
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Doubling time   show
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Emigration   show
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Exponential growth   show
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Forced migration   show
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Generation X   show
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Immigration   show
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show The percentage of children who die before their first birthday within a particular area or country.  
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Internal migration   show
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Life expectancy   show
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Thomas Malthus   show
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Migration   show
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show The difference between the number of births and num¬ber of deaths within a particular country.  
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show Advocacy of population control programs to ensure enough resources for current and future populations.  
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Overpopulation   show
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show A measurement of the number of persons per unit land area.  
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show A division of human geography concerned with spatial variations in distribution, composition, growth, and movements of population.  
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Population pyramid   show
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show Attractions that draw migrants to a certain place, such as a pleas¬ant climate and employment or educational opportunities.  
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show Incentives for potential migrants to leave a place, such as a harsh climate, economic recession, or political turmoil.  
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show People who leave their home because they are forced out, but not because they are being officially relocated or enslaved.  
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Rust Belt   show
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Rust Belt continued   show
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Sun Belt   show
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Total fertility rate   show
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show Movement of an individual who consciously and vol-untarily decides to locate to a new area-the opposite of forced migration.  
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show Proposal to end population growth through a vari¬ety of official and nongovernmental family planning programs.  
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show The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.  
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show The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.  
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Arithmetic density   show
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Census   show
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Crude birth rate (CBR)   show
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Crude death rate (CDR)   show
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Demographic transition   show
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Demography   show
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Dependency ratio   show
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Doubling time   show
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show Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.  
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show The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.  
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show A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.  
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Infant mortality rate (IMR)   show
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Life expectancy   show
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Medical revolution (Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives.)   show
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show The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.  
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Overpopulation   show
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Pandemic   show
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show The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.  
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show A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.  
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show The number of males per 100 females in the population.  
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Total fertility rate (TFR)   show
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show A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.  
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Brain drain   show
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show Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.  
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Circulation   show
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Counterurbanization   show
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show Migration from a location.  
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Floodplain   show
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show Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.  
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Guest workers   show
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show Migration to a new location.  
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show Permanent movement within a particular country.  
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International migration   show
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Interregional migration   show
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Intervening obstacle   show
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Intraregional migration   show
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show Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.  
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Migration transition   show
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show All types of movement from one location to another.  
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show The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.  
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show Factors that induce people to move to a new location.  
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Push factors   show
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show In reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year  
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show People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.  
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Undocumented immigrants   show
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show Permanent movement undertaken by choice.  
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