Geography Flashcards
(52 cards)
(n) too many people live in one specific area that causes overload

(adj) suitable for marriage
Eligible

(n) To destroy the reproductive ability, so that a particular person would not be able to reproduce

Sterilization
(n) When a mother is forced to get rid off the baby inside her womb
Abortions

(n) When the Government only allows a family to have one child due to its country rapid growth population.
One-child Policy

To take away or look at other people’s property, usually without permission
Ransack
Uneven or unequal
Lopsided

The ability to produce young
Fertility

Talk in which people make jokes about each other in a friendly way
Banter

with the help and support of (someone or something)
Auspices

polite behavior that shows respect for other people, something that you say to be polite especially when you meet someone
Courtesy

(n) The action or fact of making a specified thing smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.
Reduction

(n) A number to be divided by another number.
Dividend

(v) To reduce, decrease, to avoid.
Alleviate

(n) The remarkable and amazing changes in demography (The birth/death rates, migrations,..) of a given population.
Demographic Change

(n) An effect of China’s One-Child Policy in which an employed grandchild is responsible for the care of both parents and four grandparents.
The 4-2-1 problem

(n) The efforts to have one ideal number of kids in a family, often using “artificial contraception” or “voluntary sterilisation” as a solution.
Family-planning

(n) A person who organises and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
Entrepreneurs

a person who tries to bring two people together so that they will marry each other
Matchmaking

to continue for a long time without activity or progress in an unpleasant or unwanted situation
Languish

new and different from what has been known before
Novel

the study of changes (such as the number of births, deaths, marriages, and illnesses) that occur over a period of time in human populations
Demographer

The force that is applied when the law is not followed

Crackdown
to forcefully take something away from somone

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