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What is demography |
The study of populations |
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Define natural increase |
The difference between then birth rate and death rate of a country |
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Define migration increase |
The movement of people like immigration and emmigration, the difference of people immigrating to a country and people emigrating to the same country |
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How do u calculate population growth |
(births+deaths)-(immigrants-emigrants)=population growth |
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What is the "Rule of 70" |
The rule of 70 is the calculation to estimate the amount of years when a population will double its size (70÷percentage=number of years when it will double) |
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How does population growth influence our life |
There will be problems providing enough housing, education, health care and jobs for everyone |
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How does population decline influence our lives |
There maybe shortages of workers and businesses must learn to deal with a shrinking market |
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Who are the baby boomers |
The baby boomers are people who were born between 1946 and 1965 (8.2 million babies) |
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Define birth rate |
Number of births per 100 people |
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Define death rate |
The number of deaths per 100 people |
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Define immigration rate |
Number of new immigrants per 1000 people |
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Define emigration rate |
The number of people per 1000 people who in one year has emigrated |
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What are the 2 important principles that the royal proclamation gave to the first Nations |
1.land ownership rights of the first Nations were respected 2.the first Nations should receive fair payment for the land they gave up |
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What are the three reasons why Nunavut suits the new territory |
1. 85% of the nunavuts are Inuit 2.The Inuit are better able to control their own lives 3.The Inuit feel that they can more easily protect their culture and develop economics base that meets their needs |
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What were the steps that Nunavut became a seperate province |
1.proposal by ITC in 1976 2 NWT people voted on dividing their huge region 3.negotiations 4.final agreement in 1993 |
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Define Self government |
The principle that each distinct group of people has the right to control its own affairs. |
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Define Total fertility rate |
Average number of children that a women will have in a lifetime (1.6) |
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Define Replacement rate |
How many people we will need to replace the people who retiref |
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Define birth dearth |
A rapid decline in the number of children being born |
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Define assimilation |
A cultural reset |