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27 Cards in this Set
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The study of human population
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Demography
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The incidence of childbearing in a country's population
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Fertility
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The number of live births in a given year for every 1,000 people in a population
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Crude birth rate
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The incidence of death in a country's population
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Mortality
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The number of deaths in a given year for every 1,000 people in a population
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Crude death rate
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The number of deaths among infants under one year of age for each 1,000 live births in a given year
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Infant mortality rate
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The average life span of a country's population
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Life expectancy
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The movement of people into and out of a specified territory
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Migration
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The number of males for every 100 females in a nation's population
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Sex ratio
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A graphic representation of the age and sex of a population
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Age-sex pyramid
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A thesis that links population patterns to a society's level of technological development
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Demographic transition theory
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The rate of reproduction that maintains population at a steady level
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Zero population growth
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The concentration of population into cities
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Urbanization
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A large city that socially and economically dominates an urban area
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Metropolis
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Urban ares beyond the political boundaries of a city
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Suburbs
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A vast urban region containing a number of cities and their surrounding suburbs
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Megalopolis
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A type of social organization in which people are closely tied by kinship and tradition
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Gemeinschaft
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A type of social organization in which people come together only on the basis of individual self-interest
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Gesellschaft
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The study of the link between physical and social dimensions of cities
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Urban ecology
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The study of the interaction of living organisms and the natural environment
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Ecology
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Earth's surface and atmosphere, including living organisms, air, water, soil, and other resources necessary to sustain life
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Natural environment
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The interaction of all living organisms and their natural environment
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Ecosystem
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Profound long-term harm to the natural environment caused by humanity's focus on short-term material affluence
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Environmental deficit
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Regions of dense forestation, most of which circle the globe close to the equator
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Rain forests
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A rise in Earth's average temperature due to an increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
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Global warming
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Patterns of development that expose poor people, especially minorities, to environmental hazards
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Environmental racism
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A way of life that meets the needs of the present generation without threatening the environmental legacy of future generations
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Ecologically sustainable culture
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