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  • Population is the entire group of people of different races, sexuality, and status.
  • Demographic transition shift in the history of birth and death rates in society.
  • Population density frequently applied to living organisms, most of the time to human and a key geographical term.
  • Migration are called to people who leave to another place.
  • Emigration refers to people leaving their home countries permanently.
  • Immigration refers to people moving into an area or country from other places.
  • Migrants are people who move from one place to another.
  • Morbidity occurrence of diseases and illnesses in population.
  • Mortality rate is the number of death in a given population.
  • Sex ratio is the ratio of male and female in a population.
  • Fecundity is the number of offspring of a woman in a year.
  • Demography is the statistical feature of the human population.
  • The two components of population are Natural Increase and Net Migration.
  • UN Population Division is the department of economic and social affairs pull together information on such issues as international migration and development urbanization, world population prospects and policies and marriage and fertility statistics.
  • UN Population Fund start operating 1969 and assume a leading role within the UN system in promoting population programmes, based on the human rights.
  • Hotspot are the places with exceptionally high biodiversity levels and home to endemic species.
  • Endemic are called to organisms that are native in a particular area.
  • Biodiversity is the variety of life forms at all its levels from genes to ecosystems.
  • Genetic diversity is the variation among individuals of one species which exist naturally within that species.
  • Species richness refers to the number of different species found in an area or habitat.
  • Habitat fragmentation occurs when large areas of land are broken up into smaller pieces, often surrounded by roads, buildings, and other infrastructure.
  • Taxonomy is a system of classifying and naming living things.
  • Carolus Linnaeus is the father of Taxonomy.
  • Binomial Nomenclature is a method of giving each species a name consisting two words and that will be their scientific name.
  • In naming an organism in Taxonomy is that the first word identifies the genus and the second word identified as the species.
  • WWF works in a field of wilderness preservation and reduction of human impact on the environment.
  • IUCN is an international organization works in the field of conservation of nature and sustainable use of natural resources.
  • OCEANA is an organization that protects and conservation of ocean water.
  • FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL organization dedicated to protecting the planet's threatened wildlife and habitat.
  • The two Binomial Nomenclature International codes are International Code for Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) and International Code for Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).
  • Domain is the highest rank or level in the taxonomy pyramid.
  • Kingdom consist of 5 classification. Plantae(plants), Animalia(Animals), Monera(Prokaryote organisms) Fungi(eukaryotic, non-vascular, non-motile and heterotrophic organisms) Protista(eukaryotic organisms that are neither fungi, plant and animal)
  • Domain has 3 classification. Archaea are a single-celled prokaryotic organisms. Bacteria are free living prokaryotic organisms. Eucarya is a multicellular organism and has a nucleus.
  • Phylum is next to Kingdom.
  • Phylum Porifera non-motile organisms with hard outer skeleton. Habitat, in marine.
  • Phylum Annelida have segmented cylindrical body bilaterally symmetrical.
  • Phylum Anthropoda have jointed legs and bilaterally symmetrical body.
  • Phylum Chordata: vertebrates, have a notochord, and have a dorsal nerve cord.
  • Animalia can be further classified into phyla such as Porifera (sponges), Cnidaria (jellyfish), Platyhelminthes (flatworms), Nematoda (roundworms), Mollusca (mussels), Arthropods (insects), and Vertebrate (animals with backbones).
  • Class is the most general rank next to phylum.