Ch. 2/3: Population and Health/ Migration

Question 1

Highly clustered/ concentrated regions in the world

Answer 1

East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia

Question 2

Smaller concentrated/ emerging regions

Answer 2

Eastern North America and West Africa

Question 3

Permanent human settlement

Answer 3

Ecumene

Question 4

Sparsely populated by humans

Answer 4

Non-ecumene

Question 5

Total # of objects in an area

Answer 5

Arithmetic density

Question 6

of people supported by a unit area of arable land

Answer 6

Physiological Density

Question 7

The ratio of # of farmers to arable land

Answer 7

Agricultural density

Question 8

Total # of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive

Answer 8

Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

Question 9

Total # of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people

Answer 9

Crude Death Rate (CDR)

Question 10

% by which the population increases in a year

Answer 10

Natural Increase Rate (NIR)

Question 11

The amount of time needed for doubling the population

Answer 11

Doubling Time

Question 12

The average amount of children a woman has in her child-giving years (ages 15-49)

Answer 12

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

Question 13

The # of people who are too young or too old to work

Answer 13

Dependency Ratio

Question 14

A process with several stages and every country is in one of the stages

Answer 14

Demographic Transition

Question 15

• High CBR
• High CDR
• No NIR

Answer 15

Stage 1 (Low Growth)

Question 16

• Declining CDR
• High CBR
• High NIR
• e.g. Cape Verde

Answer 16

Stage 2 (High Growth)

Question 17

• Declining CDR
• Declining CBR
• Rising NIR
• e.g. Chile

Answer 17

Stage 3 (Declining Growth)

Question 18

• Low CBR
• Low CDR
• No long-term NIR
• e.g. Denmark

Answer 18

Stage 4 (Low Growth)

Question 19

Argued that the population of the world will grow more rapidly than the food supply

Answer 19

Thomas Malthus

Question 20

Argued that recent population growth makes Malthus’ theory more frightening

Answer 20

Neo-Malthusians

Question 21

Focuses on distinctive health problems in each demographic transition/stage

Answer 21

Epidemiologic Transition

Question 22

• Pestilence & Famine (e.g. Black Plague)

Answer 22

Stage 1 (High CDR)

Question 23

• Receding Pandemics (diseases that affect a high proportion of people e.g. cholera)

Answer 23

Stage 2 (Rapidly declining CDR)

Question 24

• Degenerative Disease (e.g. heart disease and cancer)

Answer 24

Stage 3 (Moderately declining CDR)

Question 25

- Delayed Degenerative Disease

Answer 25

Stage 4 (Low but Increasing CDR)

Question 26

- Infectious and Parasite disease - Poverty - Increased connections

Answer 26

Possible Stage 5 (Rising CDR)

Question 27

Annual # of Deaths among infants under the age of 1 (per 1,000 infants)

Answer 27

Infant Mortality Rate

Question 28

The average # of years people are expected to live

Answer 28

Life expectancy

Question 29

Designed to increase birth rates (e.g. Russia and China)

Answer 29

Pro-Natalist

Question 30

Tries to prevent women from having babies to decrease the population

Answer 30

Anti-Natalist

Question 31

Coming to permanently live in a foreign country

Answer 31

Immigration

Question 32

Leaving a country to settle in another one

Answer 32

Emigration

Question 33

1. Most migrants relocate a short distance and remain within the same country 2. Long-distance migrants from other countries head for major centers and economic activities

Answer 33

Ravenstein's two for distance in relation to migrants

Question 34

Move from one country to another

Answer 34

International migration

Question 35

Moving within a country

Answer 35

Internal migration

Question 36

Push factors for voluntary migration

Answer 36

Economic improvement

Question 37

Push factor for forced migration

Answer 37

Political or environmental factors

Question 38

Movement from one region of a country to another (e.g. opening of the American West)

Answer 38

Interregional migration

Question 39

Movement within a region

Answer 39

Intraregional migration

Question 40

Issued visas for immigrants who previously entered the U.S. without legal documents

Answer 40

Reform and Control Act

Question 41

Average location of everyone in the country

Answer 41

Population Center

Question 42

Population shift from rural to urban

Answer 42

Urbanization

Question 43

Movement from urban to suburb areas

Answer 43

Suburbanization

Question 44

Urban to rural areas

Answer 44

Counterurbanization

Question 45

Induces people to move out of their present location (e.g. slavery and war)

Answer 45

Push factors

Question 46

Induces people to move into a new country (e.g. places that help refugees)

Answer 46

Pull factors

Question 47

A person with permission to work in another country

Answer 47

Guest worker

Question 48

An environmental or political feature that hinders migration

Answer 48

Intervening Obstacle

Question 49

Stopped unrestricted immigration in the U.S.

Answer 49

Quota Act and the National Origins Act

Question 50

Got rid of the Quota laws and helped immigrants visit family

Answer 50

Immigration Act of 1965

Question 51

Large-scale emigration of talented people (e.g. talented doctors and scientists)

Answer 51

Brain Drain

Question 52

Migration because relatives or members of the same nationality moved there

Answer 52

Chain Migration

Question 53

Immigrants without proper documentation

Answer 53

Undocumented Immigrants

Question 54

- Expense - National Identity

Answer 54

Fears of Migration

Question 55

- Asylum seekers (e.g. torture, death, penalty) - Labor migration (hope for a better economy & work opportunities) - Illegal migration (entering a country without a visa)

Answer 55

Type of migration

Question 56

Advantages of migration

Answer 56

- Economic development - Meet employment needs

Question 57

______ holds the most migrants today (42.8 million). _______ has the most people leaving its country

Answer 57

U.S.A. and Mexico

Question 58

Agriculture and extractive activities; depended on by developing countries

Answer 58

Primary sector

Question 59

Processing activities manufacturing, construction, and power production; many developing nations support secondary activities with lower labor costs than developed countries

Answer 59

Secondary sector

Question 60

Any developed countries economies are dominated by tertiary sector jobs; service to other buildings

Answer 60

Tertiary sector

Question 61

Informational activities; advanced technologies and intelligence

Answer 61

Quaternary sector

Question 62

A new theoretical sector within the quaternary sector of high management level jobs; jobs at are at government level

Answer 62

Quinary sector

Question 63

of live births / estimated mid-year population (* 1,000)

Answer 63

Birth rate formula

Question 64

of live births / # of deaths / Mid-year population (*1,000)

Answer 64

Rate of Natural Increase formula

Question 65

of males to females in a population

Answer 65

Sex ratio

Question 66

The max population that the environment can sustain

Answer 66

Carrying Capacity

Question 67

Make it to land, they get to stay. If caught in the water, they are sent back to Cuba

Answer 67

Wet Foot/Dry Foot Policy

Question 68

Human population becoming too large to be sustained by its environment

Answer 68

Overpopulation

Question 69

An epidemic of infectious diseases across the globe (e.g. COVID-19)

Answer 69

Pandemic

Question 70

Importance : encourages free trade with Mexico, U.S., and Canada Not important: Hurt labor prospects of small farmers and created a loss in jobs

Answer 70

NAFTA/USMCA

Question 71

Poor Health care, High death rate, High birth rate, High Infant Mortality rate, kids = economic assets

Answer 71

Less Developed/Developing Countries (LDC)

Question 72

Good Health care, education , and job opportunities. Low CBR and CDR. High Literacy Rate

Answer 72

More Developed Countries (MDC)

Question 73

Improvement in health care, sanitation, and life expextancy

Answer 73

Newly Industrialised Countries (NIC)