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Physiological destiny Patricia |
A measure of population density that is found by dividing the total number of people by the area of arable land |
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Population composition |
Aspects that make up a population these can include sex, age, marital status, and education |
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Population density |
A measure of total population relative to land size |
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Population distributions |
Descriptions of locations on the earth surface for individuals or groups live |
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Population explosion Patricia |
The rapid growth of the worlds human population during the past century, attended by even shorter doubling times and accelerating rate of increase |
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Population pyramid Patricia |
This is a visual representation of the composition of a population in terms of age and sex |
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Rate of natural increase |
The difference between the number of births in the number of deaths |
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Restrictive population policy Patricia |
A policy that is now generally enforced by the majority of worlds governments. This policy range from toleration and promotion of birth control to prohibiting of large families. China’s one child policy is an example of this |
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Stage five |
This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by declining population birth rates continue to fall and drop below death rates death rates remain stay Lilo |
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Stage four |
This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by decrease in population growth the birth rates continue to fall while the death rate to rain steadily low |
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Stage one |
This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by low population growth there are hyper and death rates in the stage |
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Stage three Patricia |
This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by population explosion for three to remain high although they begin to fall death rates are very low so decreasing but close to leveling off |
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Stage two |
This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by increased growth population. There are high birthrates and declining death rates |
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Stationary population level Patricia |
A term abbrev. SPL that refers to the theory that the global population will stop growing sometime during the 21st-century and reach this stage |
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Malthusian Theory |
Thomas Mouthess believed that the worlds population was increasing faster than the food supply needed to sustain it. He thought that food supplies grew when are we at the population grew exponentially |
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Total fertility rate Patricia |
Average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime a TFR of 2.1 or higher indicates a stable population |
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Zero population growth |
A state in which a population is maintained at a constant level because the number of deaths is exactly offset by the number of births |
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Ehrlich Theory |
Stanford university professor Paul Eric predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major social upheaval’s, 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 |
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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 salmon and epidemic affecting all age groups to one of degenerative and man made diseasesSuch as those attributed to smoking affecting principally the elderly it is generally believed that the apple logic transition part of the 20th century work closely associated with risking standards of living, nutrition, and sanitation |
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Bosserup theory Patricia |
Also known as production. Her position counter the math illusion theory agricultural methods determine population via limits on food supply |
