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What are pro-natalist policies?

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Policies that promote larger families and more children

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What are pro-natalist policies?

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Policies that promote larger families and more children

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Explain the concept of carrying capacity in relation to population growth.

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Carrying capacity is the maximum population size that an environment can sustain indefinitely.

Answer explanation

Carrying capacity is the maximum population size that an environment can sustain indefinitely.

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What is the concept known as distance decay?

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The decrease in likelihood of interaction as distance increases.

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According to Waldo Tobler, what does the first law of geography state?

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Near things are more related than distant things

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How has technology impacted the flow of people, goods, and ideas between different places?

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It has made interactions between places easier and faster.

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What is time-space compression?

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The decrease in time it takes for people to travel between places