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What is demography? |
The scientific study of population characteristics. |
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⭐Human beings on earth are not being distributed uniformly across Earth's surface.⭐ |
Means that, You will not see a pattern in population growth. |
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4 Major Regions of the world by population are... ? |
-East Asia [Largest] -South Asia -South East Asia -Europe [Smallest] |
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Overpopulation |
When an area's population exceeds the capacity of the environment to support them at an acceptable standard living. |
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Cartogram |
Map that shows exaggeration Depicts the size of countries according to population rather than land area. |
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Ecumene |
Portion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. |
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Physiological Density |
Number of people supported by the unit area of arable land. |
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Arithmetic Density |
The total number of people divided by total land area. |
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3 Reasons why demographers study population... ? |
- More people are alive at this time than any point in history. - World's population increased faster than at anytime before. - Virtually all global population growth is concentrated in LDCs |
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The 4 Environments where people avoid clustering |
- Dry Lands - Wet Lands - Cold Lands - High Lands |
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The higher the physiological density, the greater the pressure that people may place on the land to produce enough food. |
The higher the physiological density, the greater the pressure that people may place on the land to produce enough food.
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