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- International company headquarters, significant global financial functions, and a polarized social structure are defining characteristics of
- The basic sector of activities of a city's economy include production of goods and services for
- The Tokyo-Yokohama-Kawasaki region is the world's largest
- These makeshift neighborhoods, constructed of scrap materials, are found in all of the world's large peripheral cities.
- The U.S. Bureau of Statistics defines a central country or counties with at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more, plus adjacent outlying counties with a large number of residents that commute in as a
- According to the rank-size rule, the 5th largest city in a country will be
- Medical Technology invented in Europe and diffusing for improvement in medical practices
- focuses on distinctive health threats in each stage of the demographic transition
- Population will ultimately exceed food or another resource ( and already has in selected regions of the developing world )
- Population will exceed food supply. Food production would increase ARITHMETICALLY (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) but population would grow GEOMETRICALLY (e. g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ).
- a conjunction of major improvements in manufacturing goods and delivering them to markets
- government policy that supports higher birth rates (e.g. Japan )
- average number of years an individual can be expected to live
- number if people who are too young or too old to work compared to the number of people in their productive years ( # non-working age / # age 15-65 )
- when the # of people exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
- evolution (antibiotic resistence ), poverty ( lack access to medicine ), and connections (globalization helps transmission )
- the scientific study of population characteristics
- the branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes
- The location of a place relative to another place
- a government policy that supports lower birth rates