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AP Human Geography Population

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Age Distribution   show
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Carrying capacity   show
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Cohort   show
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Demographic equation   show
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Demographic momentum   show
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show study of population characteristics by region  
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show Demographic transition model a sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time.  
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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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show spreading of fertility control from one place to another over time.  
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Disease diffusion   show
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show Time period required for a population experiencing exponential growth to double in size completely.  
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show The portion of Earth's surface occupided by permanent human settlement.  
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show Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.  
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Gendered space   show
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Infant mortality rate   show
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show J-curve is used in several different fields to refer to a variety of unrelated J-shaped diagrams where a curve initially falls, but then rises to higher than the starting point  
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Maladaption   show
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show Author of Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) who claimed that population grows at an exponential rate while food production increases arithmetically, and thereby that, eventually, population growth would outpace food production.  
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show number of deaths per year ususally per 1,000  
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Natality   show
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show Advocacy of population control programs to ensure enough resources for current and future populations.  
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show A value judgment based on the notion that the resources of a particular area are not great enough to support that area's current population.  
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Population densities   show
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Population distributions   show
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show 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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show a statement of a population future size, age and sex composition based on the application of stated assummptions to current data.  
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show A model used in population geography to show the age and sex distribution of a particular population.  
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show The difference between the number of births and number of deaths within a particular country.  
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show A type of curve which shows the growth of a variable in terms of another variable, often expressed as units of time. For example, an S-curve of the growth of company sales for a new product would show a rapid, exponential increase in sales for a period ti  
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show The number of males per 100 females in the population.  
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Standard of Living   show
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show to keep in existence to maintain  
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underpopulation   show
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show Proposal to end population growth through a variety of official and nongovernmental family planning programs.  
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Activity space   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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Cyclic movement   show
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Distance decay   show
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Forced migration   show
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show A matematical prediction of the interaction between two bodies as a function of their size and of the distance separating them. Based on Newton's law of universal gravitation, the model states that attraction is proportional to the product of the masses  
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show The permanent or semipermanent movement of individuals within a particular country.  
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Intervening opportunity   show
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show Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.  
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Intercontinental migration   show
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show Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.  
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Rural Urban migration   show
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show consists of changes in a society that results from the social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.  
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Periodic movement   show
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Personal space   show
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Place Utility   show
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show Factors that induce people to move to a new location. Factors that induce people to leave old residences.  
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Refugee   show
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show A diagram of the volume of space and the length of time within which our activities are confined by constraints of our bodily needs and the means of mobility at our command.  
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Step migration   show
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show The seasonal movement of people and their livestock over short distances for example to high grounds during summer and lower grounds during winter.  
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show to cause to go from one state of existence or place to another  
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show Movement of an individual who consciously and voluntarily decides to locate to a new area-the opposite of forced migration.  
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show individuals that are critics of Malthus's theory and believe that human beings are, in fact, our greatest resource and that attempts to curb our numbers miguidedly cheat us out of geniuses who could devise creative solutions to our resource shortages.  
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