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The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
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Agricultural Density
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A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
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Population pyramid
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The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
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A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
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The total number of people divided by the total land area.
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Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
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An official count of the population conducted every ten years
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The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in society.
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The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.
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A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time.
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The scientific study of population characteristics
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The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force.
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The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase. Rule of 70
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The portion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.
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regional outbreak of a disease
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Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.
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Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence distribution and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people.
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A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
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The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society.
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The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions.
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The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.
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The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
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The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
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The number of males per 100 females in the population.
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An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
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The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years (15 to 49)
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A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.
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A country who has many means of transportation, a higher literacy rate, a high GDP, and a High HDI
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A country who has few means of transportation, a lower literacy rate, a low GDP, and a Low HDI
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Family planning to prevent births
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Government policies to increase the birthrate in their countries
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Government policies to decrease the birthrate in their countries.
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Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives.
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Moving into a location.
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Migration from a location
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The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants
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A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
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Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border
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Permanent movement within the same country
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Permanent movement from one country to another.
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Negative home conditions that impel the decision to migrate
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Positive attractions of the migration destination
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Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate.
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Permanent movement undertaken by choice.
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Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city
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Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
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Large-scale emigration by talented people.
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Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee
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a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers
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Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries
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The voluntary movements of immigrants back to their place of origin.
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Workers who migrate in search of higher-paying jobs.
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Neighborhoods where people from similar cultures live together and assert cultural distinction from the dominant group
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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
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A set of 11 "laws" that can be organized into three groups: the reasons why migrants move, the distance they typically move, and their characteristics.
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The movements of livestock according to seasonal patterns, generally lowland areas in the winter, and highland areas in the summer.
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The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.
