vocab. for DSST Env.Sci. from Environmental Science by Karen Arms
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| age-structure histogram | illustration that depicts in comparative ways the age and sex of a population
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| agricultural revolution | change from a hunting and gathering society to an agricultural society that began about 10,000 years ago
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| biotic potential | rate at which a population would grow if every new individual survived to adulthood and reproduced at maximum capacity; the characteristic maximum growth rate for a population
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| carrying capacity | the maximum number of individuals an environment can support for a long period of time
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| demographer | one who is involved with the statistical science dealing with the distribution, density, and vital statistics of human populations
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| demographic transition | theory that states that the economic and social progress of the industrial revolution affects a population in three stages
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| emigration | act of organisms leaving one area to locate in another
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| environmental refugees | people driven from their homes by severe environmental damage
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| environmental resistance | the combined effect of all the factors that limit population growth
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| family planning | practice of people who take measures to ensure that they will have the size of family they want
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| hunter-gatherers | people who obtain their food by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plant foods
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| immigration | act of organisms moving into one area from another
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| J-curve | curved line showing exponential growth
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| limiting resources | those resources that limit the growth of a certain population
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| overpopulation | condition in which an area cannot support its human population with its available resources, or in which the population, because of growth, suffers problems that affect its general welfare
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| S-curve | curved line that shows a population reaching its carrying capacity and then falling below it
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