APHUG Unit 2 Vocab.

Question 1

Emigration

Answer 1

People who move out of the country

Question 2

Environmental degradation

Answer 2

Deterioration of the environment through depletion of natural resources

Question 3

Immigration

Answer 3

People who move into a country

Question 4

Population distribution

Answer 4

The pattern of human settlement

Question 5

Industrial Revolution

Answer 5

Changes in technology that increased manufacturing productivity

Question 6

Agricultural density

Answer 6

The number of farmers per unit area of farmland

Question 7

Arable land

Answer 7

Land that is able to grow crops

Question 8

Arithmetic density

Answer 8

The number of people per unit area of land

Question 9

Ecumene

Answer 9

Portion of Earth with human settlement

Question 10

Intervening obstacle

Answer 10

Barriers that make reaching a desired destination more difficult

Question 11

Intervening oppurtunity

Answer 11

Environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration

Question 12

Physiological density

Answer 12

The number of people per unit area of arable land

Question 13

Pull factor

Answer 13

Migration due to negative conditions and circumstances

Question 14

Push factor

Answer 14

Migration due to positive conditions and circumstances

Question 15

Carrying capacity

Answer 15

The population that a region can support

Question 16

Overpopulation

Answer 16

The growth of population beyond what an area can support

Question 17

Replacement-fertility level

Answer 17

The total fertility rate at which a population replaces itself from one generation to the next

Question 18

Age/sex ratio

Answer 18

The cumulative result of past trends of fertility, mortality and migration

Question 19

Population pyramid

Answer 19

Tool to study population with age and sex

Question 20

Zero population growth

Answer 20

The maintenance of a population at a constant level

Question 21

Crude birth rate

Answer 21

The number of births per year for each 1,000 people

Question 22

Crude death rate

Answer 22

The number of deaths per year for each 1,000 people

Question 23

Demography

Answer 23

The study of statistics which illustrate the changing structure of human populations

Question 24

Doubling time

Answer 24

The time it takes a population to double in size

Question 25

Fecundity

Answer 25

The ability to reproduce in an abudance

Question 26

Fertility

Answer 26

The number of children born to a woman

Question 27

Infant mortality rate

Answer 27

The number of children that die before their first birthday

Question 28

Medical revolution

Answer 28

Medical technology made in Europe and North America diffused to poorer countries

Question 29

Mortality

Answer 29

Death on a large scale

Question 30

Rate of Natural increase

Answer 30

The difference between the number of births and deaths in a year

Question 31

Total fertility rate

Answer 31

The average number of children a woman has

Question 32

Demographic transition model

Answer 32

Shows five stages a country goes through as it modernizes

Question 33

Epidemiologic transition

Answer 33

Changing population patterns in terms of fertility, life expectancy, mortality, and leading causes of death

Question 34

Antinatalist policies

Answer 34

Programs to decrease the number of births

Question 35

Pronatalist policies

Answer 35

Programs to increase fertility rate

Question 36

Contracepetion

Answer 36

Designed to prevent pregnancy

Question 37

Dependency ratio

Answer 37

A value comparing the nonworking to the working parts of a population

Question 38

Graying population

Answer 38

When a population becomes more dominated by older people

Question 39

Life expectancy

Answer 39

The number of years the average person will live

Question 40

Asylum seeker

Answer 40

A person who has left their country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another

Question 41

Chain migration

Answer 41

When migrants follow each other to a particular destination

Question 42

Forced migration

Answer 42

Movement of refugees and internally displaced people

Question 43

Guest worker

Answer 43

A person with temporary permission to work in another country

Question 44

Internally displace person

Answer 44

A person who is forced to flee their home, but remains on their country's borders

Question 45

Refugee

Answer 45

A person who leaves home to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster

Question 46

Step-migration

Answer 46

A migration pattern in which rural inhabitants move closer to urban areas

Question 47

Transhumance

Answer 47

The action of moving livestock from one grazing field to another

Question 48

Transnational migration

Answer 48

The process of movement and settlement across country borders

Question 49

Voluntary migration

Answer 49

One's free will and initiave to migrate

Question 50

Brain drain

Answer 50

The emigration of intelligent people from a country

Question 51

Net migration

Answer 51

The difference between the number of immigrants to the number of emigrants

Question 52

Natural hazards

Answer 52

Natural occuring physical phenomena

Question 53

Internal migration

Answer 53

Migration within a country or state/provinces

Question 54

Unauthorizied immigrant

Answer 54

People living in a country without proper citizenship

Question 55

Urban

Answer 55

An area constituting a city or town