Chapter 2

Question 1

The amount of people in an area

Answer 1

Population Density

Question 2

The spread of the people in an area

Answer 2

Population distribution

Question 3

Land that is suitable for growing crops

Answer 3

Arable land

Question 4

The amount of people that can be supported by the environment without damaging the environment

Answer 4

Carrying Capacity

Question 5

The spread of urban development from an urban area into undeveloped land near a city

Answer 5

Urban Sprawl

Question 6

Total number of live births in a year per 1,000 people alive

Answer 6

Crude Birth Rate

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Crude Death Rate

Question 8

Average number of children a woman will have

Answer 8

Total Fertility Rate

Question 9

Total number of deaths under one year of age in a year for every 1,000 live births

Answer 9

Infant Mortality Rate

Question 10

Percentage by which a population grows in a year

Answer 10

Natural Increase Rate

Question 11

The amount of time it takes for a population to double in size

Answer 11

Doubling Time

Question 12

Activities that take raw resources to produce or manufacture products of greater value. Example: construction worker

Answer 12

Secondary Sector

Question 13

Activities that provide a service for other individuals. Example: Lawyer

Answer 13

Tertiary sector

Question 14

A time period where small farms were consolidated into larger farms. (Land went from communally owned to privately owned.)

Answer 14

Enclosure Movement

Question 15

Income that a person has after taxes and other mandatory charges

Answer 15

Disposable Income

Question 16

A branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.

Answer 16

Epidemiology

Question 17

A disease that spread through a region or community

Answer 17

Epidemic

Question 18

A disease that spreads across multiple regions, countries, or possibly the world.

Answer 18

Pandemic

Question 19

A disease that stays in a particular area a does not spread through the entire region or community.

Answer 19

Endemic

Question 20

A disease that continues to get worse over time

Answer 20

Degenerative Diseases

Question 21

Policies that are created to help decrease a societies birth rate

Answer 21

Anti-Natalist Policies

Question 22

Policies that are created to help increase a societies birth rate

Answer 22

Pro-Natalist Policies

Question 23

(Number of Children 0-14 or
0-18) / (Number of Working-Age Population 15-64 or 18-
64) * 100

Answer 23

Child Dependency Ratio

Question 24

(Number of Elderly 65 and older) / (Number of Working-Age Population 15-64 or
18-64) * 100

Answer 24

Elderly Dependency Ratio

Question 25

(Number of Children 0-14 or 0-18 + Number of Elderly 65 and older) / (Number of Working-Age Population 15-64 or 18-64) * 100

Answer 25

Total Dependency Ratio

Question 26

Positive situations, conditions, events, and factors that make people want to move to a geographic location

Answer 26

Pull Factors

Question 27

Negative situations, conditions, events, and factors that make people want to leave a geographic location

Answer 27

Push Factors

Question 28

When an individual leaves a country or political territory

Answer 28

Emigration

Question 29

When an individual enters a counti political territory

Answer 29

Immigration

Question 30

Negative situations or events that hinder migration and end up preventing migrants from reaching their final destination

Answer 30

Intervening Obstacles

Question 31

Positive situations or events that hinder migration and end up preventing migrants from reaching their final destination

Answer 31

Intervening Opportunities

Question 32

An individual who has been forced to flee from their home in order to avoid the effects of armed conflicts, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, and/or natural/human made disasters, but has not crossed an internationally recognized state border

Answer 32

Internally Displaced Person

Question 33

A migrant emigrates from their home country to another country but remains connected to their original country. (Often settles in an area with similar cultural and demographic characteristics)

Answer 33

Transnational Migration

Question 34

A process in which a legal immigrant, who has become a naturalized citizen, sponsor a family member to immigrate to the country

Answer 34

Chain Migration

Question 35

Migration that happens in stages (Migrants will make stops on the way to their final destination)

Answer 35

STEP Migration

Question 36

A migrant who may temporarily migrate to a new country for work or for educational reasons

Answer 36

Guest Worker

Question 37

Money an immigrant sends back to the family residing in their home country

Answer 37

Remittance

Question 38

Movement of people from rural settlements to urban settlements

Answer 38

Rural to Urban Migration

Question 39

Migration that involves a permanent move within the same region

Answer 39

Intraregional Migration

Question 40

Migration that involves a permanent move from one region of a country to another region of the same country

Answer 40

Interregional Migration

Question 41

Permanent move within a country

Answer 41

Internal Migration