Chapter 4 Migration Flashcards
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Absolute location
The exact position of an object or place measured with in the spatial cornets of a grid system.
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The exact location of a place measured with a grid system.
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Accessibility
The relative ease with which a destination maybe reach from some other place
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A location where a place can be reached from various places.
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Anthropogenic
Human induced changes on the natural environment.
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Changes humans make on earth.
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Azimuthal projection
A map projection in which the plane is the most developable surface.
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The production of a map in which a plane is the most developed surface.
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Breaking point
The outer edge of the city sphere of influence used in the law of retail gravitational to describe the area of the cities hinterlands the depend on that city for its retail supplies.
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A city that depends on that city for its retail supplies.
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Cartogram
A type of the thematic map that transform spaces such that the political unit with the greatest value for some type of data is represented by the largest relative area.
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A type of somatic map that represents by the largest relative area.
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Cartography
The theory and practice of making visual representations of earths surface in forms of maps.
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Making maps that represent earths largest relative area.
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Choropleth map
A fanatic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area.
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A map that represents spatial data using tones are colors.
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Cognitive map
An image of a portion of earths surface that an individual creates in his or her mind.
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I’m not created in someone’s mind using their knowledge.
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Complementarity
The actual or potential relationship between two places usually referring to economic interactions.
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The actual place between two relationships usually referring to economic situations.
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Connectivity
The degree of economic social call troll or political connections between two places.
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Places to things have in common which can include economical social cultural or political situations.
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Contagious diffusion
The spread of a disease and innovation or cultural traits through direct contact with another person or another place.
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The spread of sicknesses or viruses with another person or another place.
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Coordinate system
A standard grid composed of lines of latitude and longitude use to determine the actual location of an object place or feature on Earth surface.
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Agreed that uses lines of latitude and longitude to determine the absolute location of an object or place on earth surface.
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Cultural ecology
the study of the interactions between societies in the natural environment in which they live.
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The study in which natural environments and societies live.
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Cultural landscape
The human modified natural landscapes specifically containing the imprint of a particular culture or society.
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Human natural landscape containing the imprint of a particular culture.
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Distance decay effect
The decrease in interaction between two phenomena places or people as the distance between them increases
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The decrease in interaction between two places or people as a distance between them increases.
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Dot map
Somatic maps that uses points to show the position a location of specific observations or occurrences such as crimes car accidents or births.
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A map that uses points to show the location of the Specific occurrence
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Earth system science
A systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between earths physical systems and processes on a global scale.
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The systematic approach of two physical geography the looks of the interaction between earth on a global scale.
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Environmental geography
The intersection between human and physical geography which explores the spatial impact humans have on physical environment and vice versa.
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The intersection between physical geography and human explore the spatial impact human have on earth and vice versa.
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Eratosthenes
The head librarian at Alexandria during the third century BC one of the first cartographers performed a remarkably accurate computation of earths circumference he is also credited with cloning the term geography.
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A person performed a remarkably accurate computation of earths circumference.
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Expansion diffusion
The spread of ideas innovation fashion or other phenomena to surrounding areas to contact and exchange.
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The spread of ideas fashion or other things through contact or exchange.
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Fertile Crescent
The name given to crescent shaped areas of fertile land stretching from the lower and I’ll Valley on the east Mediterranean coast and into Syria and present day Iraq were agriculture and early civilization first began about 8000 BC.
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The name given to crescent shaped areas of fertile land.
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Formal region
Definition of region based on common themes such as similarities and language climate land use etc.
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Regions based on common themes or similarities.
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Friction of distance
A measure of how much absolute distance affect the interaction between two places.
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How distance affect the interaction between two places.
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Fuller production
A type of map projection that maintains the accurate size and shape of landmasses but completely rearrange his directions such that the four cardinal directions north south east and west no longer have any meaning.
A map that maintains the accurate size of a landmasses but the four cardinal directions no longer have meaning.
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Functional region
Definition of region based on common interactions or function for example a boundary line drawn around the circulation of a particular newspaper.
Regents to find uncommon interactions.
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Geographic information system
| A set of computer tools used to capture store transfer analyze and display geographic data.
You computer used to store transfer analyzing display geographic data.
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Geographic scale
The skill at which a geographer analyzes and particular phenomenon for example global national census tract neighborhood etc. generally the finer the scale of Anna Lise sis the richer the level of detail in the finding.
A scale in which geographers analyze a particular place.
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Geoid
The actual shape of earth which is rough and or slightly squashed earths diameter is longer around the equator then along the north south meridian.
The actual shape of earth.
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Global positioning system
| A set of satellites used to help determine locations anywhere on earth surface with a portable electronic device.
Electronica helps you determine or take you anywhere on earth surface or determine a location.
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Gravity model
A mathematical formula that describes a level of interaction between two places based on the size of their population and their distance from each other.
A formula that is used to describe the level of interaction between two places based on their size and the population and distance from each other.
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Hierarchical diffusion
A type of diffusion in which something is transmitted between places because of a physical or cultural community between those places.
something is diffused based on physical or cultural between those places.
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Human geography
| The study of the spatial variation in the pattern and process related to human activity.
The study of human activity and their spatial patterns.
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Idiographic
| Pertaining to that unique facts or characteristics of a particular place.
Unique facts of a particular place.
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International dateline
| The line of longitude them works for each new day begins centered on the 180th meridian
A line of longitude that describes where each new day begins
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Intervening opportunities
If one please has a demand for some good or service and two places have a supply of equal price and quality the supplier close to the buyer will represent an intervening opportunity there by blocking the third from being able to share it supply of goods or services intervening opportunities are frequently used because trance port Tatian across usually decreases with proximity.
The cost and quality of a supplier intervening opportunities are frequently used because transportation cost usually decreases with how close they are.
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Isoline
| A map that connects points of equal or very similar values.
I'm not that shares points of equal or similar values.
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Large scale
A relatively small ratio between map units in ground units large-scale mattress we have higher resolution and cover much smaller regions then small-scale maps.
The small ratio between map units in ground units.
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Latitude
| The angular distance north or south of the equator defined by lines of latitude or parallels.
Wines that go north to south of the equator and are parallel.
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Law of retail gravitation
A law state stating that people will be drawn to larger cities to conduct their business since larger cities have a white or influence on the surrounding hinterlands.
People will have businesses in larger cities than smaller cities because larger cities have a wider influence on the surrounding hinterlands.
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Location charts
On a map or chart or graph that gives specific statistical information about a particular political unit or juristdiction
The chart or graph think of specific information about political or Jurisdiction.
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Longitude
| The Endler distance east or west of the prime radian defined by lines of longitude are Mertins.
Lines that go east to west of the prime meridian.
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Map projection
In mathematical mess that involves transferring earths fear once we forgot surface this term can also be used to describe the type of math that results from the process of projecting on map projections distortions in area direction distance or shape.
A map of earth that lays flat.
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map scale
| The ratio between the size of an area on an object and the actual size that same area on earth surface.
The size between something on a map and the actual size on earth.
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George Perkins marsh
Inventor diplomat politician and a scholar is classic work man and nature on physical geography as modified by human actions provided the first description of the extent to which natural systems have been impacted by human actions
George Perkins much gave the first description to which natural systems have been impacted by human actions.
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Mercator projection
A true confirmation cylindrical map projection the Mercator projection and is particularly useful for navigations maintains accurate directions Mercator projection are famous for their distortion in area I Makes landmasses at the north poles appears oversized.
Amount that makes the north poles appear oversized.
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Meridian
| Alina want to chew that runs north to south all I want to tutor equal in length and intersect at the poles.
Lines that run north to south and intersect at the poles.
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Natural landscape
| The physical landscape or environment that has not been affected by human activities.
A physical environment on earth that hasn't been affected by people.
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Nomothetic
| Concepts or rules that can be applied universally.
Rules that can be applied universally.
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Parallel
| East west line of latitude that runs parallel to the equator and that marks distance north or south of the equator.
Lines that run east west of the latitude to the equator and mark the distance of the north and south equator.
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W. D. Pattison
He clean the geography Drew from fortress traditions the earth science tradition the cultural environment tradition and the locational tradition and the area analysis tradition.
Claimed geography drew from district traditions earth science cultural environment an area analysis traditions.
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Perceptual region
| Highly individualized definition of region based on perceived common now ladies and culture and landscape.
Definition of regions based on culture and landscape.
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Peter's production
| And equal area projection purposely centered on Africa in an attempt to treat all regions of earths equally.
Attempts to project and center Africa to all regions of earths equally.
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Physical geography
Brown of geography that studies the structure processes distribution and changes to time of the natural phenomena of earths surface.
The study of how earths structure process and distribution change throughout time.
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Preference map
| A map that displays individual preferences for certain places.
Maps that show individual preferences for certain places.
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Prime meridian
| And imaginary line passing through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich England that marks the 0° line of longitude.
Find the passes through Greenwich England that Mark 0° line of longitude.
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Projection
| The system use to transfer locations from earth surface to a flat map.
Earth surface passed on through a flat map.
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Proportional symbols map
A somatic map in which the size of a chosen symbols such as a circle or triangle indicate the relative magnitude of some statistical value for a given geography region.
A symbols that indicates the relative magnitude of a statistic value for a given geographic region.
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Ptolemy
Roman geographer astronomer author of the guy to geography which includes not containing a grid system of latitude and longitude.
A book that contains a grid system of latitude and longitude.
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Qualitative data
Data associated with a more human mystic approach to geography often collected two interviews empirical observations or the interpretation of text artwork old maps and other achieves.
Data associated with more human six approach through interviews or interpretations.
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Quantitive data
| Data associated with mathematical models and statistical techniques used to analyze spatial locations and associations.
Data associate with mathematical models and sis testicle techniques used to analyze locations and associations.
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Quantitative revolution
| A period of human geography associated with the widespread adoption of mathematical models and statistical techniques.
Each time in human geography the widespread adoption of mathematical and statistical techniques.
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Reference map
A map type that shows reference information for a particular place making it useful for finding land marks and for navigation.
A map that shows information for a particular please making it useful to find landmarks and for navigating.
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A territory that encompasses many places that share similar physical and or cultural attributes.
Places that share similar physical or cultural attributes.
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Regional geography
| The study of geographic regions
The study of places on earth.
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Relative distance
A measure of distance that includes the cost of overcoming the friction for actual distance separating two places relative distance often described him out of social cultural or economic connectivity between two places.
A measure of distance that includes the cost of overcoming friction of distance operating two places.
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Relative location
| The position of a place relative to the places around it.
A place described by places around it.
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Relocation diffusion
| The diffusion of ideas innovation behaviors and so on from one place to another through migration
The diffusion of ideas innovation and behaviors from one place to another to migrations.
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Remote sensing
The observation of mathematical measurements of earths surface using air for crafts and satellites the sensors include photographic images thermal images multispectral scanners and radar images
The observational and measurements of earths surface using satellites or aircraft.
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Resolution
A map smallest disc runnable unit if for example Inaja cost to be 1 km long in order to show up on a map the maps resolution is 1 km.
A projection that tries to balance several projection errors.
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Robinson projection
A projection that attempts The balance of a possible projection errors it does not mean teen area she distance or direction completely accurately but in minimize errors in each.
A map that tries to balance several projection errors.
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Carl sauer
Geographer from the University of California Brooklyn would find this concept of cultural landscape as a fundamental unit of geographical NOS this landscape results from the interaction between human and physical environment saucer argued that virtually no landscape has escaped alternation by human activities.
Interaction between human activities and the physical environment.
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Sense of place
| Feeling a boat by people as a result of certain experiences and memories associated with a particular place
Feelings by people as a result of certain experiences and memories with a particular place.
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Site
| The absolute location of the place of scraping location relief when form and other cultural or physical characteristics
A location described by other locations around it or objects around it.
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Situation
The relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding area in the next shins and independencies within the system a place spatial context.
A location of a place in deletion to the physical or cultural characteristics of area surrounding it.
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Small scale
A map scale ratio in which the ratio of units on the map to units on earth is quite small small scale maps usually depict large areas.
Ratio on a map to units on earth is quite small.
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Spatial diffusion
The way in which phenomena such as technological innovations cultural trends or even outbreaks of disease trouble over space.
How technical logical innovations trends or diseases travel from one place to another.
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Spatial perspective
And intellectual framework that looks at the particular locations of the specific phenomena and how why that phenomena is where it is and finally Howard especially related to the phenomenal and other places.
Why something is there and how it is relative to the other things around it.
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Sustainability
The concept of using our resources in such a way that they provide for peoples need in the present without the machine earth to provide for future generations
using natural resources in away without hurting earths ability to provide for future generations.
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Thematic layers
Individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another and geography information system to understand and out was a special relationship
One map stacked on top of the other to understand Geographical information.
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Thematic map
| A type of map that displays one or more variables such as population or income level with a specific area.
A map that displays one or more variables with a specific area.
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Time space convergence
The idea that distance between some places it's actually shrinking asked of knowledge enables more rapid communicating and increased interaction among those places.
The distance between places and it's actually shrinking as technology enables rapidly communicating and increasing those places.
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Topo graphic maps
Maps that use ice wines to represent Conset elevations if you took a topographic map out into the field and walked exactly along the path of an iced white on the map you were always in the same elevation.
A Map the represents elevation.
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Topological space
| The amount of connectivity between places regardless of the absolute distance separating them.
The amount of connection between a place regardless the distance separating them.
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Transferability
| The cost involved in moving goes from one place to another.
The amount of money it takes to move goods from one place to another.
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Visualization
| Use of sophisticated software to create dynamic computer maps some of which are three dimensional or interactive.
Using technology to create a Maps of which are three dimensional or interactive.
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Absolute distance
| A distant that can be measured with the standard unit of length such as a mile or kilometer.
Distance that can be measured in unit of length such as kilometer or mile.
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Age-sex distribution
A model used in population geography that describes the ages and numbers of males and females within a given population also called the population pyramid .
A graph that shows the population that describes the age and the number of males and females within a population.
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Arithmetic density
| The number of people living in a given unit area.
People Per unit area.
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Baby boom
Because I heard of individuals born in the United States between 1946 and 1964 which was just after World War II in a time of relative peace and prosperity these conditions allow for better education and job opportunities encouraging both high rate of both marriage and fertility.
The number of babies born in the United States between 1946 in 1964.
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Baby bust
Period of time during the 1960s and 1970s and fertility rate in the United States job as a large number of women from the baby boom generation saw higher levels of education a more competitive job causing them to marry later in life as such the fertility rate dropped considerably and contrast of the baby boom in with fertility rates were quite high
Fertility rate dropped between 1960s and 1970s because women of the baby boom generation had higher levels of education and wanted more competitive jobs causing marriage later in life.
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Carrying capacity
| The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can sustainably support.
The number of people the environment sustainably supports.
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Census tract
Small country subdivisions usually between 2500 and 8000 persons delineated by the US census bureau as area of relative uniform population characteristics economic status and living conditions.
Subdivisions containing between 2000 508,000 people of relative uniform population economic and living.
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Chain migration
The migration event in which individuals all the migratory path of presenting friends or family members to an existing community.
Individuals migrate to wear their families and friends are.
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Child mortality rate
| Number of deaths per thousand children's within the first five years of their life.
The number of children dying per thousand before the age of five.
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Cohort
The population group unified by specific common characteristics such as age and subsequently treated as a statistical unit.
A group of people identified by their common characteristics such as there age.
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Cotton belt
The term by which the American South uses to be known as cotton historically dominated the agricultural of the region the same area is known as the new south or Sunbelt because people have group here from older cities in the industrial north for a better climate and new job opportunity
the American South use cotton historically dominated the agricultural economy of the region.
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Crude birth rate
| Number of live births per year per 1000 people.
The number of people born per year per 1000 people.
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Crude death rate
| The number of deaths per year per 1000 people.
Number of people the die per year per 1000 people
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Demographic accounting equation
And equation that summarizes the amount of growth or decline in the population within a country during a particular time. Taking into account both natural increase and net migration
The number of people in a population within a country that role or decline in a period of time.
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Demographic transition model
The sequence of demographic changes in which the country move from high birthrates and death rates are so low birthrates through time
How countries demographic changes from high birthrates and death rates to low birthrates and death rates.
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Demography
| The study of human population including the temporal and spatial dynamics
The study of human population and how they move and relocate.
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Dependency ratio
The ratio of the number of people who are either too old or too young to provide for themselves the number of people who my support them through their only were this is usually expense in the form and ratio 100 where and equal the number of dependents
How many people need support from adults.
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Doubling time
| Time. Are you free population experiencing exponential then show growth to double in size completely
The time it takes for a population to double.
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Emigration
| The process of moving out of a particular country usually the individual persons country of region.
The process of someone moving from their country to another.
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Exponential group
Growth that occurs when a fixed percentage of the new people is added to a population beach or exponential growth is compound because the six growth reapply's to wait ever increasing population
The percentage growth because people are added to the population every year.
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Forced migration
| The migration event in which individuals are forced to leave the country against their well
Or forced to leave the country.
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Generation X
What time coined by artist and author Douglas Copeland describe people born in the United States between the years 1965 1980 this post baby boom generation will have support the baby boom cohort as they head into there retirement years.
People who were born through the years 1965 1980s.
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Geodemography
| See population geography
The population.
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Immigration
| The process of individuals moving into a new country with the intension of remaining there.
Moving into a new country with the purpose of staying there permanently.
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Infant Mortality rate
| The percentage of children who died before their first birthday with in a particular area of the country.
The number of children who die before the age of one.
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Internal migration
| The permanent or semipermanent movement of individuals within a particular country.
The movement of which you move in your country.
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Intervening obstacles
| Any forces are factors that may limit human migration.
Any object or obstacle that may limit people migrating.
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Involuntary migration
| Forced migration
You are forced to move due to environmental or political or cultural factors.
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Life expectancy
| The average each individuals are expected to live with various across space between genders and even between races
The number of years someone is expected to live.
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Thomas Malthus
Author of essay on the principle of population 1798 hopefully in the population growth exponential rate well food production increases are with medically and thereby that eventually population growth will out space food production.
The more people born the less food that will be.
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Maternal mortality rate
| Number of deaths per thousand of women giving birth.
The number of deaths while women giving birth.
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Migration
| It long term move any person from one political jurisdiction to another.
Long term move from one political jurisdiction addition to another.
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Natural increase rate
| The difference between the number for the number of deaths within a particular country
The number of people who die and are born within a particular country.
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Neo-Malthusian
| I look to see a population control program to ensure enough resources for Karen future population.
Program that ensures enough resources for current and future population
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Overpopulation
A value judgment based on the notion that the resources of a particular area are not great enough to support that area current population.
Too many people and there's not enough support for that overcrowded area.
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Physiologic density
| A ration of human population to the area of crap when he was in the most developed countries dominated by a substance.
Number of people to area of crop land
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Population density
| A measurement of the number of persons per unit land area
Number of people per land area
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Population geography
| A division of human geography concerned with spatial variations of distribution composition growth in population
The spatial variations of human geography
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Population pyramid
| Remodel use the population show the age and sex for supervision of a particular population.
Model used to represent and show age and sex distribution that shows particular population.
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Pull factor
| Attractions I drop my clients to certain places such as pleasant climate unemployment registration opportunities.
Attractions that attract people to a certain place.
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Push factors
| Insensitive for potential migrants to leave please such as a harsh climate economic resent shins are political turmoil.
Factors that push people away from a country.
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Refugees
| People who leave their homes because they're forced out but not because they are being officially relocated or enslaved.
Believe their homes because they are Force.
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Sunbelt
US regions mostly compromise of south eastern and southwestern states which has grown most dramatically since World War II.
Regions of the compromise of south eastern southwestern states.
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Rust belt
States of the United States including Ohio Michigan and Pennsylvania and which had the industry was once the dominant economic activity in the 1960s 1970s and 1980s the states lost much of their economic base economically attractive regions of the United States and two countries where labor was cheaper leaving old machinery to Rust in the moist northern climates.
Factories and workplaces also known as have you just wrote for once dominant economic activities in Michigan Pennsylvania and Ohio but economics a tractive regions of the United States were labor was cheaper leaving old machinery to rust in northern climates.
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Total fertility rate
| The average number of children born to a woman during her Childbearing years.
The number of kids a woman has during her childbearing years.
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Voluntary migration
Movement of an individual who cautiously involuntarily decides to relocate to a new area the opposite of forced migration.
One who decides to move to another country or relocate.
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Zero population growth
| Proposals and population growth through the verity of a facial and non-governmental family-planning programs
Proposals to stop population growth or decrease population.
