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population geography Test

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Demography
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Cohort
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Age-sex distribution
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rust belt cont.
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Chain migration
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push factors
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forced migration
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Demographic transition model
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population pyramind
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exponential growth
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rust belt
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sun belt
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neo malthusian
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doubling time
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thomas malthus
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voluntary migration
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generation x
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crude death rate
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emigration
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advocacy of popolation control programs to ensure enough resources for current and future generations
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the largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can sustainably support.
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The migration event in which individuals follow the migratory path of proceeding friends or family members to an existing cummunity
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A term coined by artist and author douglas coupland to describe people born in the united states between the years of 1965 and 1980. This post baby boom generation will have to support the baby-boom cohort as they head into their retirement years
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the migration event in which individuals are forced to leave a country against their will
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the northern industrial states of the us in which heavy industry was once the dominant economic activity .in the 1960s, 60s, and 80s, these states lost much of their economic base to economically attractive regions of the us and to countries where labor
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the number of deaths per year per 1000 people
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movement of an individual who conciously and voluntarily decides to locate to a new area- the opposite of forced migration
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growth that occurs when a fixed percentage of new people is added to the population each year. exponential growth is compound because the fixed growth rate applies to an ever increasing population
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claimed that population grows at at an exponential rate while food production increases arithmeticaly, and thereby that , eventualy, population growth would outpace food production.
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time period required for a population experiencing exponential growthto double in size completely
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the process of moving out of a particular country usually the individuals country of oregon
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us region, mostly comprised of sotheastern and southwestern states, which has grown most dramatically since ww II
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a sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth a death rates through time
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the study of human populations, including their temporal and spatial dynamics
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A population group unified by specific common characteristic and subsequently treated as a statistical unit
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A model used in population geography that describes the ages and number of males and females within a given population; also called a population pyramid
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was cheaper, leaving old machinery to rust in the moist northern climate.
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incentives for potential migrants to leave a place
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a model used in population geography to show the age sex distribution of a particular populatation
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a measurement of the number of persons per unit land area
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attractions that draw migrants to a certain place
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the average age individuals are expected to live, which varies across space, between genders and even between races.
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a value judgement based on the notion that the resources of a particular area are not great enough to support that areas current population
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the permanent or semipermanent movement of individuals within a particular country
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proposal to end population growth through a variety of official and nongovernmental family planning programs
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the diference between the number of births and number of deaths within a particular country
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the percentage of children who die before their first birthday within a particular area or country
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the number of live births per year per 1000 people
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period of time during the 1960s and 70s when fertility rates in the us dropped as large numbers of women from the baby boom generation sought higher levels of education and more competitive jobs, causing them to marry later in life.

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