AP Human Geography Ch 2 (Population) – Flashcards
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Most population growth is concentrated where?
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MDC's
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Where does more than half of the people in the world live?
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Asia
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How do you find arithmetic density?
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Number of people divided by land
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Where are the highest crude birth rates found?
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LDC's
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What did Malthus say?
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Population increases geometrically, while food supply increases arithmetically
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As the GDP per capita increases, what does the crude birth rate generally do?
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decreases
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As the GDP per capita increases, what does the crude death rate generally do?
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increases
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As the GDP per capita increases, what does the natural increase rate generally do?
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decreases
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What are the four types of land that lies outside the ecumene?
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Dry, Wet, Cold, & High lands
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Why did today's MDC'S move from stage 1 to stage 2 of the demographic transition?
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Industrial Revoultion
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Why have some of today's MDC's recently moved from stage 3 to stage 4 of the demographic transition?
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Zero Population Growth
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Why have today's LDC's moved from stage 1 to stage 2 of the demographic transition?
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Medical Revolution
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How do geographers define the concept of overpopulation?
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More people than resources available
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What is ecumene?
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The portion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement
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What's physiological density?
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people per arable land
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What is sex ratio?
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the number of males per hundred females
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What is the most lethal epidemic in recent years?
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AIDS
