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It refers to the number of people living in a particular place, region, or country.

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POPULATION

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It refers to the changes in population over a certain period of time.

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POPULATION GROWTH

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It refers to the increase in the fertility rate of the female population.

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INCREASE IN BIRTH RATE

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It refers to average number of children that woman can bear within the span of her lifetime.

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FERTILITY RATE

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It refers to the age until which the person is expected to live.

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LIFE EXPECTANCY

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It refers to unit of deaths per year.

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MORTALITY RATE

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It refers to the movement of people from one country or locality to another.

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MIGRATION

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It refers to setting into a new place. (in-migration)

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IMMIGRATION

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It refers to leaving from a place. (out-migration)

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EMIGRATION

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It refers to the description of a population according to characteristics such as age and sex. These data are often compared over time using population pyramids.

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POPULATION COMPOSITION

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The proportion of the population in each age class. It influences whether a population will increase or decrease in size.

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AGE STRUCTURE

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One in eight people in the world are aged 60 or over. As long as fertility rates continue to decline and life expectancy continues to rise, older people will steadily increase as a proportion of the population.

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AGING POPULLATION

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It refers to the number of people in a country who knows how to read and write.

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LITERACY RATE

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Theilliteracy rateof a group refers to the proportion of members that are part of theilliteratepopulation.

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ILLITERACY RATE

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It refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area.

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STANDARD OF LIVING

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All the members of a particular organization or population who are able to work, viewed collectively.

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LABOR FORCE

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It refers to the state of the economy in a country or region. They change over time in line with the economic and business cycles, as an economy goes through expansion and contraction.

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ECONOMIC CONDITION

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It is the belief that the universe and the various forms of life were created by God out of nothing.

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CREATIONIST THEORY

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The theory that proved that man and all the other species on earth were products of a long process of evolution.

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EVOLUTION THEORY

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He was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.“On the Origin of the Species of Man”

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CHARLES DARWIN

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FORE LIMBS SHORTER THAN HIND LIMBS
DISTANT ANCESTOR OF MAN
ANCESTOR OF MODERN APES

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DRYOPITHECUS

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APE-MAN
FOSSIL CONTAINS ONLY JAWS AND DENTITION
COLLECTED FROM INDIA AND AFRICA
DIRECT ANCESTOR OF MAN

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RAMAPITHECUS

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APE-MAN
CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN MAN AND APE
AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS IS A COMMON FOSSIL

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AUSTRALOPITHECUS

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They used symbols to communicate.

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HOMO SAPIENS

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They used much-developed stone implements.
HOMO SAPIENS
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“Thinking Man”
HOMO SAPIENS
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Discovered in Southeast Asia | ex. Tabon Man in Palawan.
HOMO ERECTUS
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“Upright Man”
HOMO ERECTUS
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Skilled in the use of fire.
HOMO ERECTUS
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Lived in caves and able to survive in the cold environment.
HOMO ERECTURS
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Discovered in Africa.
HOMO HABILIS
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Also known as the “handy man”- ability to use and manufacture stone tools.
HOMO HABILIS
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“Walk Upright”
HOMO HABILIS
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Motor abilities-enabling to move and grip things.
HOMO HABILIS
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Advance primitive man.
NEANDERTHAL MAN
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Found in Neander Valley.
NEANDERTHAL MAN
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HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS.
NEANDERTHAL MAN
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Extinct MODERN MAN.
CRO-MAGNON MAN
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Lived in old stone age.
CRO-MAGNON MAN
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Lived in caves.
CRO-MAGNON MAN
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They were hunters and artists.
CRO-MAGNON MAN
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It is the study of past by written artifacts.
HISTORY
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it is the period before the writing was invented.
PRE-HISTORY
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Tools, bow and arrows to hunt deer.
MESOLITHIC PERIOD (MIDDLE AGE)
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First stone tools invented.
PALEOLITHIC PERIOD (OLD AGE)
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Period lasted for such a long time that it is known to be 99% of human history.
PALEOLITHIC PERIOD (OLD AGE)
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Refers to the materials used to make man-made tools. In the Stone Age, man made tools out of stone.
THE STONE AGE
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They did not plant crops. They gathered wild fruits, nuts, berries, and vegetables.
HUNTERS & GATHERERS
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Remains of living things (plants, animals, people), not things that were made.
FOSSILS
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Remains of things that were made, not remains of living things.
ARTIFACTS
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Has an ability to use his hands to make tools and to hold weapons for hunting and defense.
PALEOLITHIC PERIOD (OLD AGE)
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Has an ability to speak, transmit, and receive information.
PALEOLITHIC PERIOD (OLD AGE)
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Has a larger brain that made him more intelligent.
PALEOLITHIC PERIOD (OLD AGE)
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They invented wooden bows and arrows and boats for fishing.
MESOLITHIC PERIOD (MIDDLE AGE)
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They still used stone tools like fishing hooks.
MESOLITHIC PERIOD (MIDDLE AGE)
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They made pottery to store food.
MESOLITHIC PERIOD (MIDDLE AGE)
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They retained nomadic lives.
MESOLITHIC PERIOD (MIDDLE AGE)
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"Meso"
MIDDLE
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“Lithos”
STONE
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The most crucial inventions were farming and large scale animal domestication.
NEOLITHIC AGE
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People no longer had to migrate as nomads. The Agricultural Revolution let people live in villages and cities.
NEOLITHIC AGE
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Systematic Agriculture has two parts, farming and animal domestication.
NEOLITHIC AGE
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Systematic agriculture gave humans a steady food supply.
NEOLITHIC AGE
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The food surplus (Cause) allowed some people to develop different skills and jobs.
NEOLITHIC AGE
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(Effect) Job specialization: People became full time weavers, potters, jewelry, tool and weapon makers.
NEOLITHIC AGE
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People built permanent structures out of stone and brick. Job specialization: stone mason, brick maker.
NEOLITHIC AGE
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Man learned to polish his tools to a fine edge and sharp points.
NEOLITHIC AGE
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They formed communities that led to the creation of rules and laws to act as social control.
NEOLITHIC AGE
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The discovery of ___ is the end of the stone age.
COPPER
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Three Stages of Metal Age.
a. Copper Age b. Bronze Age c. Iron Age
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A natural metal that can be easily cast into tools, jewelry, and weapons.
COPPER
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Later, copper was mixed with tin to make ____ a much stronger alloy and copper.
BRONZE
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The Iron Age is the third principal period for classifying ancient societies and prehistoric stages of progress. The ancient periods of world history are characterized by available materials used in tools for hunting, agriculture and weaponry.
IRON AGE
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The differences from the preceding age of bronze were due to more advanced ways of processing iron. Because iron is softer than bronze, it could be forged, making design move from rectilinear patterns to curvilinear, flowing designs.
IRON AGE
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It refers to the system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment.
ECOSYSTEM
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It refers to an area where physical, chemical, biological traits and forms of energy like air, water, soil and organisms are interacting in a natural way.
ECOSYSTEM
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Describes the health condition of the planet’s ecosystem.
THE LIVING PLANET INDEX (LPI)
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Shows the extent of human demand on different ecosystem.
THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
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Pollution is the introduction of harmful substances into the environment, thereby causing uncertainty, disorders, and damage to the ecosystem.
CROSS-BOARDER POLLUTION
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Refers to the decline in land quality that is caused by human activities.
LAND DEGREDATION
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The process of turning forestlands into dry lands that eventually lead to becoming nearing desert
DESERTIFICATION
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The large-scale removal of trees in the forests.
DEFORESTATION
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The lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region.
WATER SCARCITY
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The process where soluble salts precipitate from water and accumulate in the soil.
SALINIZATION
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It refers to the variations that have occurred in the earth’s usual environment through its natural cycle.
CLIMATE CHANGE
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Refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas.
URBANIZATION
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These conditions had led to the creation of other problems like housing, lack of sanity water, and sanitation itself.
URBANIZATION

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