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What term describes the study of spatial and ecological aspects of population, including distribution, density per unit of land area, fertility, gender, health, age, mortality, and migration?

Population distribution

Human geography

Population geography

What term defines the number of people per unit area?

Population density

Polulation collectivism

What part of the world has the largest concentration of people?

Eurasia

Africa

What is carrying capacity?

The number of children that a women will be able to give birth to.

The maximum number of people that can be supported in a given area.

What is TFR (total fertility rate)

The number of children the average women will bear during reproductive lifetime.

The number of children born in a region in a year.

What TFR is needed to create a stable population?

2.5

2.1

2.0

What term defines a population that is no longer growing?

Population death

Population decay

Zero population growth

A population with what TFR will experience decline?

3.0

4.0

2.0

What area has the highest TFR in the world?

Sub-Sahara Africa

Central Europe

Southern Asia

What region has the highest death rates?

Sub-Sahara Africa

Central South America

Eastern Russia

What is demographic transition?

People moving from one place to another

Movement from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates

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