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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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The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering

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Agricultural revolution

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Immune system disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus which overtime weakens the capacity of the immune system to fight off infection

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Aids

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The total number of people divided by the total land area

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Arithmetic density

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A complete enumeration of a population

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Census

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I figure that describes the number of children that died between ages one and five in a given population

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Child mortality rate

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Generally long lasting afflictions now more common because of higher life expectancy’s

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Chronic diseases

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The total number of live births in a year for everyone thousand people alive in society

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Crude Birth Rate

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The total number of deaths in a year for everyone thousand people alive in the society

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Crude death rate

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The process of change in a societies population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth rates and death rates, low rate of natural increase and higher total population

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Demographic transition

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The scientific study of a populations characteristics

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Demography

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The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force

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Dependency ratio

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Maps where one dots represent a certain number of people

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Dot map

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The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.

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Doubling time

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The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement

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Ecumene

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Government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others

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Eugenic population policies

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A series of improvements in industrial technology that transform to the process of manufacturing goods

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Industrial revolution

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The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society

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Infant mortality rate

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The average number of years and individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions.life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live.

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Life expectancy

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Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is defused to the poor countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa.improved medical practices have illuminated many of the traditional causes of death in poor countries enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives

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Medical revolution

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Large supercities there are forming and diverse parts of the world

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Megalopolis

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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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Natural increase rate

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The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at the decent standard of living

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Overpopulation

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The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is the landscaper for agricultural

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Physiological density

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Structure of a population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education

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Population composition

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A measure of total population relative to land size

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Population density

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Descriptions of the locations on the earths surface where individuals or groups live

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Population distribution

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The rapid growth of the world human population during the past entry, attended by ever shorter doubling times and accelerated rate of increase

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Population explosion

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A bargraph representing the distribution of population by age and sex

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Population pyramid

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Government policies designed to reduce the rate of natural increase

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Restrictive population policies

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The number of meals per 100 females in the population

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Sex ratio

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The level at which a population seizes to grow

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Stationary population level

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The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years

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Total fertility rate

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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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Zero population growth

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