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Demography

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Studies population and population characteristics
Predicts future growth and identifies potential population issues

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demographers

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People who study population.They consider how people are spread out by age, health, gender, occupation, and fertility, among other things.

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Population distribution

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The pattern in which humans are spread out on Earth’s surface.

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Eurasia

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A massive piece of land on Earth that consists of Europe and Asia

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Population clusters

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Heavily populated areas that illustrate the unevenness in global population distribution.

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The main clusters are:

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European, southeast asian, south asian, and east asian clusters

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Metacity

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A city with more than 20 million residents

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Megacity

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A city with more than 10 million residents

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Developed (or industrialized) country

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A country with an advanced economy and a high standard of living.

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Developing (or industrializing) countries

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Countries that are of relatively low income or economically poorer than developed countries.

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Snow Belt

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States located in the northern and midwestern parts of the country

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Sunbelt

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States in coastal areas and the South and Southwest.

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Mean center of population

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The balancing point given the distribution of population.

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Physical Factors

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Climate,Landforms,Water bodies

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Climate

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weather pattern over time; people tend to live in moderate temperatures and in lower latitudes because of the abundance of rainfall

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Landforms

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People tend to live on areas where they can grow crops or where there are constant sustainable natural resources to sustain human life

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Water bodies

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water for people and plants (crops), access to freshwater

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Elevation

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The distance above sea level.

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Human Factors

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Culture,Economics,History,Political

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Culture

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people tend to live among their cultural groups

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Economics

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how can people make money

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History

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events of the past influence where people live today

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Political

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types of governments/levels of freedom

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After moving for natural features, people move for:

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Safety
Economic reasons (Jobs)
Friends or relatives
Close to trade routes (roads, trains, rivers)
Political decisions (military posts in the arctic)
Religious reasons (Amish resettling because of persecution)
Cultural reasons

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Density

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is the number of people in a space.

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Distribution

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is the spatial spread of people in a space

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Population density

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The average number of people per unit of land area.

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Arithmetic (crude) density

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The average number of people per unit of land area (usually per square mile or kilometer).

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Physiological density

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The average number of people per unit area (a square mile or kilometer) of arable land — that is, land suitable for cultivation.

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Agricultural density

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The number of farmers per unit of arable land

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Physiological population density differs from crude population density in that physiological density

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explains density in terms of people per arable square land unit, while crude density explain density in terms of people per total square land unit

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Carrying capacity

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The number of people a particular environment or Earth as a whole can support on a sustainable basis

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The ability of a resource base to sustain a population is known as its

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carrying capacity

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Human well-being

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The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.

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Population composition

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The makeup of the population by age and sex as well as by ethnic, racial, income, and educational background

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Age structure

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Refers to the breakdown of a population into different age groups or cohorts.

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Dependency ratio

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The number of dependents in a population, that each 100 working-age people (ages 15 to 64 years) must support.

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Youth dependency ratio

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The number of young dependents in a population (usually people younger than 15 years of age) that every 100 working-age people must support.

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