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What is the formula for Natural Rate of Increase? |
Number of Births-Number of Deaths per 1000 people |
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What is Doubling Time? |
Number of Years until the Population will Double |
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What is the rule of 72? |
Natural Rate of Increase / 72 = Doubling time |
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East Asia, South Asia, Europe, Eastern North America are all what? |
The four major population clusters |
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The density beyond which people cease to be nutritionally self-sufficient |
Physiological Density |
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The number of births in a year per thousand people |
Birthrate |
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What is the average number of children born to each woman during her reproductive years? |
Fertility Rate |
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What significance does the number 2.1% have? |
It is the minimum total fertility rate to produce replacement population. |
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Graphic device for comparing national age characteristics |
Population Pyramid. |
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What does a wide pyramid suggest |
Rapid growth |
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What does a narrow pyramid suggest |
population stability |
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What gender is more popular in recently settled areas |
Male |
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The killing of one gender's babies. |
gender specific infanticide |
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Take place when the difficulties of moving seem offset |
Voluntary migration |
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Force you out of the counrty |
Push |
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attracts you to new land |
pull |
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Westward displacement of native american's is what |
Forced Migration |
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What is Stage 1 |
Stabilized population |
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What is Stage 2 |
Population Explosion |
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What is Stage 3 |
Decreasing Growth |
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What is Stage 4 |
Low Birth and Death Rate |
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What is Stage 5 |
Death Rate falls below birth rate |
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Permits people to exist and reproduce |
Adaptive Strategy |
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Unsuccessful living environment |
Maladaptive Strategy |
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Cultural preconditioning |
Preadaptation |
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Roving outlaws, water, marshes, swamps, communal ownership |
Why do people huddle together in villages |
