2.2 Vocab

Question 1

the interaction between two places can be determined by the product of the population of both places, divided by the square of their distance from one another

Answer 1

Gravity Model

Question 2

foreign national who is permitted to live and work temporarily in a host country.

legal immigrant who has work visa, usually short term

Answer 2

guest worker

Question 3

The illegal trade of human beings, a modern-day form of slavery, for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or involuntary military combat.

Answer 3

Human Trafficking

Question 4

migration into a place, the physical movement of people from one place to another

Answer 4

Immigration

Question 5

The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1,000 live births in a society.

Answer 5

Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)

Question 6

the movement of people from one defined area to another within a country.
human movement within a nation-state

Answer 6

Internal Migration

Question 7

Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons to a refugee but has not migrated across an international border.

Answer 7

Internally Displaced Person

Question 8

The permanent movement from one country to another.

Answer 8

International Migration

Question 9

Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.

Answer 9

Interregional Migration

Question 10

a environmental or cultural feature that hinders (delays, creates difficulties) for migration.

Answer 10

Intervening Obstacle

Question 11

an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that helps migration

Answer 11

Intervening Opportunity

Question 12

the permanent movement within one region of a country

Answer 12

Intraregional Migration

Question 13

a model that accounts for push/pull factors and intervening obstacles in order to predict migration patterns

Answer 13

Lee’s Migration Model

Question 14

The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions

Answer 14

Life Expectancy

Question 15

a state of poor nutrition

Answer 15

malnutriturion

Question 16

the number of mothers who die in childbirth for every thousand births

Answer 16

Maternal Mortality Rate

Question 17

casual and unskilled workers who move about systematically from one region to another offering their services on a temporary, usually seasonal, basis.

workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances.

Answer 17

Migrant Labor

Question 18

groups of people or animals moving from one region or country to another.

Answer 18

Migration

Question 19

the tendency for certain types of people to migrate

Answer 19

Migration Selectivity

Question 20

A constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination.

Answer 20

Migration Stream

Question 21

The change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other changes that also produce demographic transitions

Answer 21

Migration Transition

Question 22

All types of movement from one location to another

Answer 22

Mobility

Question 23

a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population

Answer 23

Mortality Rate

Question 24

an attitude or policy favoring or encouraging population growth.

Answer 24

Natalism

Question 25

the percentage by which a population grows in a year.

Answer 25

Natural Increase Rate (NIR)

Question 26

Believe that the population of the world is growing too quickly for the scale of agricultural production and resources to keep up

Answer 26

Neo-Malthusian

Question 27

The difference in the number of people who immigrate to and emigrate from a country.

Answer 27

Net Migration

Question 28

Area of the Earth’s surface that humans consider too harsh for occupancy.

Unable to live there.

Answer 28

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