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Rubenstein Vocabulary Chapter 2

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1. Arithmetic density   show
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2. Physiological density   show
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4. Natality   show
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show death rate, the number of deaths per year per thousand population.  
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show a dramatic increase in world population since 1900. The crucial element triggering this explosion has been a dramatic decrease in the death rate, particularly for infants and children, in most of the world.  
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8. Demographic Transition   show
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9. Zero population growth   show
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show a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.  
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12. Cohort   show
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show scattered settlements of a particular national group living abroad.  
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14. Gender roles   show
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16. Infant mortality rate   show
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20. Sustainability   show
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22. Pandemic   show
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show summarizes the contribution made to regional population change over time by the combination of natural change (difference between births and deaths) and net migration (difference between in  
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24. Dependency ratio   show
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25. Rate of natural increase   show
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26. Doubling time   show
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27. J-Curve   show
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show the horizontal bending or leveling of an exponential or J-curve  
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29. Ecumene   show
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show 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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31. Underpopulation   show
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32. Carrying capacity   show
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show estimates of future population size, age, and sex composition based on current data.  
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35. Demographic momentum   show
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36. Geodemography   show
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show negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and migrate to a new locale.  
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show positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas.  
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39. Voluntary   show
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40. Forced   show
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41. Transnational migrant   show
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42. Refugee   show
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43. Intercontinental Migration Pattern   show
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44. Interregional Migration Pattern   show
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45. Intraregional Migration Pattern   show
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46. rural to urban   show
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47. Place utility   show
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show the space within which daily activity occurs.  
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show an invisible, usually irregular area around a person into which he or she does not willingly admit others; situational and cultural variable.  
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show a diagram of the column of space and the length of time within which our activities are confines by constraints of our bodily needs (eating, resting) and the means of mobility at our command  
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51. Space- time compression   show
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show a model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.  
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53. Distance Decay   show
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54. Step Migration   show
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55. Chain Migration   show
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show the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminished the attractiveness of sites farther away.  
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show an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.  
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show movement, for example: nomadic migration, that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally.  
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show periodic movement involving millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances.  
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60. Migration transition   show
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61. Transhumance   show
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62. Internal Migration   show
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63. International Migration   show
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show form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.  
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