Chapter 20

Question 1

Demography

Answer 1

scientific study of population

Question 2

Formal Demography

Answer 2

study of size, composition growth and distribution of human population

Question 3

Malthus Theorem

Answer 3

population groups geometrically from 2 to 4 and food grows only with arithmetically. If birth unchecked population growth will surpass the food supply

Question 4

New Malthusians

Answer 4

population follows an exponential curve. doubled during roughly same interval of time and then suddenly accelerates

Question 5

Anti-Malthusians

Answer 5

population do not just reproduce until there is nothing left to go around. Growth rates tend to balance over time.

Question 6

Demographic Transition

Answer 6

population will transit through three stages from the long run 1-HHL 2- LHH 3- LLH
also based on population of some Euro countries

Question 7

Alienation

Answer 7

shift from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft

Question 8

Community

Answer 8

a place where people identify with where they sense that they belong and that others care what happens to them

Question 9

Concentric Zone Model

Answer 9

cities that are formed surrounding one center

Question 10

Sector Model

Answer 10

cities that contain several sectors

Question 11

Multiple-Nuclei Model

Answer 11

cities that combine the characteristics of concentric and sector models with multiple centers and sectors

Question 12

Monocentric City

Answer 12

a city with single centric center that consists of central city, suburbs and urban fringe

Question 13

Polycentric City

Answer 13

a city with multiple centric centers that include central city, inner suburbs and urban fringe between inner suburbs and urban fringe lie out suburbs where there are many mini-cities

Question 14

Inner Suburb

Answer 14

place immediately surrounding the central city

Question 15

Urban Fringe

Answer 15

the most external place surround a city

Question 16

Cosmopolites City

Answer 16

students, intellectuals, professionals, musicians, artists and entertainers coming to downtown for opportunities and benefits

Question 17

Haves and Have nots

Answer 17

rich and poor

Question 18

population pyramid

Answer 18

graphic representation of a population structure by age and sex

Question 19

population projection

Answer 19

estimates for future population

Question 20

Population increase

Answer 20

the difference between birth rate and death rate plus net migration

Question 21

Demographic equation

Answer 21

birth- death + net migration

Question 22

Crude Birth Rate

Answer 22

ration between number of live births and total population in a given are, annual number of live births per 1,000 pop

Question 23

Zero Population Growth

Answer 23

a condition in which women bear only enough children to reproduce population

Question 24

Population Shrinkage

Answer 24

process by which a country population becomes smaller due to declining birth rate and low immigration

Question 25

Growth Exponential

Answer 25

growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size

Question 26

Ghettos

Answer 26

a part of a city in which members of a particular group or race live usually in poor conditions

Question 27

Suburbs

Answer 27

community adjacent to a city

Question 28

Crude death rate

Answer 28

annual # of deaths per 1,000 pop.

Question 29

Fertile

Answer 29

number of children average women has

Question 30

Fecundity

Answer 30

number of children are capable of having

Question 31

Migration

Answer 31

movement from one part of something to another

Question 32

Net Migration

Answer 32

difference between the number of immigrants per 1000 people

Question 33

Dependency Ratio

Answer 33

In economics, geography and demography the dependency ratio is an age-population ratio of those typically not in the labor force (the dependent part) and those typically in the labor force (the productive part). It is used to measure the pressure on productive population

Question 34

Gross Migration

Answer 34

Gross migration: total number of in-migrants and out-migrants (internal migration).

Question 35

Urbanization

Answer 35

masses of ppl moving to cities and having growing influences on culture.

Question 36

metropolis

Answer 36

central city surrounded by smaller cities and suburbs

Question 37

megalopolis

Answer 37

overlapping are consisting of least 2 metropolises and many suburbs

Question 38

megacity

Answer 38

city of 10 million or more (NYC)

Question 39

Egde Cities

Answer 39

clusters of buildings and serving near the intersection of major highways

Question 40

Suburbanization

Answer 40

business starts to move away from cities,

Question 41

disinvestment

Answer 41

more decline, withdrawal or investment

Question 42

deindustrialization

Answer 42

inducts moving to another country