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Human Population Ecology: Demography

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Learners describe the basic concepts of population demography. They collect a wide range of data from an online cemetery database including a variety of places across the U.S. They analyze factors that may have affected human demography over time.

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human population, humans, population, demographics

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demography, human population, science
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9th - 12th
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Science
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