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Ap Human Geo Unit 2 Flashcards

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Arithmetic density

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The total number of people divided by the total land area

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Physiologic Density

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The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is suitable for agriculture

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Agricultural density

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The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture

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Ecumene

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land that is permanently populated by human society

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Population Density

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a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Scale of Analysis

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the scale used to analyse the event.

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Dot-Density Map

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show density differences in geographic distributions across a landscape

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Aging (Graying Population)

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when the population has an increase in the number of older people than before.

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Social Services

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government services provided for the benefit of the community, such as education, medical care, and housing.

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Carrying Capacity

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the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.

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Sustainable Growth

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The maximum growth rate that a region can sustain without having to increase resource leverage

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Age-Sex Ratio

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A model used in population geography that describes the ages and numbers of males and females within a given population

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Age-Sex Chart (population pyramid)

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the distribution of a population by age and sex.

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Dependency Ratio

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the percentage of people within a population who are either too young or too old to work and must therefore be supported by the labor of working adults within that population

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Cohorts

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a population group that’s distinguished by a certain characteristic

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Ethnic and Racial Groups

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A Certain Ethnicity/Race within a population

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Fertility Rate

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average number of children born to women during their reproductive years

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Mortality Rate

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a measure of the number of deaths in a particular population/time/period.

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Birth Rate

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the number of live births per thousand of population per year.

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Death Rate

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the ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area or during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year.

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Population Doubling Time

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the amount of time it takes for the population of a region to double

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Demographic Transition Model

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suggest that a country’s total population growth rate cycles through stages as that country develops economically.

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Epidemiological Transition

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describes changing patterns of population distributions in relation to changing patterns of mortality, fertility, life expectancy, and leading causes of death.

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Rate of Natural Increase

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the difference between the number of live births and the number of deaths occurring in a year

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Thomas Malthus

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Best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without strict limits on reproduction

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Malthusian Theory

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the human population grows more rapidly than the food supply until famines, war or disease reduces the population

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Neo-Malthusian

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a concern that overpopulation as well as overconsumption may increase resource depletion and/or environmental degradation will lead to ecological collapse or other hazards.

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Ester Boserup

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population growth is independent of food supply and that population increase is a cause of changes in agriculture

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Karl Marx

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a social, economic and political philosophy that analyses the impact of the ruling class on the laborers, leading to uneven distribution of wealth and privileges in the society

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Pronatalist policies

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policies which are designed with the purpose of increasing the birth rate/fertility rate of an area

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Anti-natalist policies

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policies that encourage people to plan smaller families, lower fertility rates and reduce the number of births.

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Immigration policies

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all those measures by which a state regulates the influx of persons, in particular those who want to establish residence in their territory either temporarily or permanently.

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Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration

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A theory/law that was made by ravenstein’s that migration will only occur in small distances rather than to a large extend of distance.

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Life expectancy

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A statistic measure that measures an estimate of a individual span of life within a certain region.

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Youth population

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those people aged less than 15

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Migration

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The movement of a person or people from one country, locality, place of residence, etc., to settle in another

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Push factors / types

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Factors/Types are poor reasons that could “Push” a certain individual out of there region to live a better lifestyle.

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Pull Factors/Types

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Factor/Types that “Pulls” in a certain individual to a region, Providing reasons to migrating/settling to a certain country.

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Intervening Opportunity

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a feature (usually economic) that causes a migrant to choose a destination other than his original one, hinders a migrants migration.

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Intervening Obstacle

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factors that cause migrants challenges or prevent them from reaching their goal.

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Forced migration

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a migratory movement which, although the drivers can be diverse, involves force, compulsion, or coercion

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Slavery

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a condition in which one human being was owned by another

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Chain Migration

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a situation in which migrants from a particular place follow other migrants to a particular destination.

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Transhumance

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the action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle

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Guest Worker

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

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Transnational migration

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a form of migration where a person maintains significant ties to two nations at the same time

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Asylum

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the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.

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Voluntary Migration

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A voluntary movement that an individual moment chooses to leave their home region by volunteer.

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The Great Migration

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the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970

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