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Physiological density |
A measure of population density that is found by dividing the total number by the area of arable land McKinna Copple |
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Population composition |
Aspects that make up a population including sex, age, marital status, and education McKinna Copple |
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Population density |
A measure of total population relative to land size McKinna Copple |
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Population distributions |
Descriptions of locations on the earths surface where individuals or groups live McKinna Copple |
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Population explosion |
Rapid growth of human population in the past century attended by evershorter doubling times and accelerating rates of increase McKinna Copple |
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Population pyramid |
A visual representation of the composition of a population in terms of age and sex McKinna Copple |
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Rate of natural increase |
The difference between births and deaths McKinna Copple |
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Restrictive population policy |
Enforced by the majority of the worlds governments ranges from toleration and promotion of birth control to prohibition of large families. China’s one child policy Mckinna Copple |
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Stage 5 |
Stage of demographic transition characterized by declining population. Birth rates continue to fall and drop below death rates. Death rates remain steadily low |
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Stage 4 |
Stage of demographic transition characterized by a decrease in population growth. The birth rates continue to fall while the death rates remain steadily low McKinna Copple |
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Stage 1 |
Stage of demographic transition characterized by low population growth. High birth and death rates Mckinna Copple |
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Stage 3 |
Stage of demographic transition characterized by a population explosion. Birth rates remain high although they begin to fall. Death rates are very low (still decreasing but close to leveling off) |
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Stage 2 |
Stage of demographic transition characterized by increased population growth. There are high birth rates and declining death rates McKinna Copple |
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Stationary population level |
(SPL) that refers to a theory that global population will stop growing sometime during the 21st century and reach this stage McKinna Copple |
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Malthusian Theory |
Thomas Malthus believed the the worlds population was increasing faster than the food supply needed to sustain it. He thought that food supplies grew linearly and that population grew exponentially. McKinna Copple |
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Total fertility rate |
Average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime. A (TFR) of 2.1 or higher indicates a stable population McKinna Copple |
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Zero population growth |
A state in which population is maintained at a constant level because the number of deaths is exactly offset by the number of births McKinna Copple |
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Ehrlich theory |
Stanford university professor Paul ehrlich predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation as well as other major societal upheavals and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. Fears of a population explosion were widespread in the 1950s and 1960s but the book and its author brought the idea to an even wider audience McKinna Copple |
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Epidemiological transition model |
Process by which the pattern of mortality and disease is transformed from one of high mortality among infants and children and episodic famine affecting all age groups to one of man-made diseases affecting the elderly McKinna Copple |
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Boserups theory |
Also known as agricultural intensification, states that population change drives the intensity of agricultural production. Countered the Malthusian theory that agricultural methods determine population via limits on food supply McKinna Copple |
