Population Migration vocab

Question 1

arithmetic density

Answer 1

number of people per unit of land

Question 2

physiological density

Answer 2

the number of people per unit of arable land

Question 3

crude birth rate

Answer 3

of live births per 1000 people (annually)

Question 4

crude death rate

Answer 4

total number of deaths per 1000 people anually

Question 5

total fertillity rate

Answer 5

the amount of children a woman is able to have in the span of her fertile life

Question 6

life expectancy

Answer 6

average amount of time a person is expected to live

Question 7

replacement level

Answer 7

of births needed to keep a population level with the number of deaths

Question 8

sex ratio

Answer 8

proportion of males to females

Question 9

rate of natural increase

Answer 9

percentage of growth in a population not including migration

Question 10

demographic transition model

Answer 10

a model the describes the transitions from high birth or death rates to low birth or death rates (or vice versa)

Question 11

epidemiological transition model

Answer 11

describes transitions from infectious diseases to chronic diseases as lifestyles change

Question 12

age dependency ratio

Answer 12

the number of people over 15 and under 65 as a proportion to working age population

Question 13

asylum

Answer 13

protection of persecution granted by a country to a refugee from another country

Question 14

authorized immigrants

Answer 14

legal permanent residents (green card holders)

Question 15

brain drain

Answer 15

the migration of skilled professionals from one country to another because of better opportunities such as salary or better life

Question 16

carrying capacity

Answer 16

the amount of people that can live in a certain place given their source of water, land, food, etc.

Question 17

census

Answer 17

an official count or survey of a population

Question 18

demography

Answer 18

the study of statistics (birth, death, income, disease) that illustrate the population

Question 19

ecumene

Answer 19

the term used to refer to the inhabited part of the universe

Question 20

emigration

Answer 20

the departure of people from a location

Question 21

food insecurity

Answer 21

the state of being without access to a reliable source of nutritious food

Question 22

forced migration

Answer 22

when a group or person forces another group or person out of a place and relocates them unwillingly

Question 23

human trafficking

Answer 23

the act of forcibly moving or taking someone under exploitive conditions

Question 24

immigration

Answer 24

the arrival of people to a country

Question 25

internally displaced person

Answer 25

a person forced to flee his or her home but stay within their country borders (do not fall under the definition of refugee)

Question 26

intervening obstacle

Answer 26

an event or factor that prevents you from migrating to another place (if you wanted to move from canada to the US but the flight was too expensive)

Question 27

malthusian population theory

Answer 27

the population tends to grow faster than its maintaining force so if there was no death, disease, poverty, etc. then the population would increase way too much and way too fast

Question 28

neo-malthusian

Answer 28

refers to people with the same concern as Malthus. They support population control programs to ensure resources for future and current population

Question 29

one child policy

Answer 29

a policy instated by the government that controls the amount of children each family can have- made to control the population growth

Question 30

population pyramid

Answer 30

shows the distribution of age (and gender) in a population

Question 31

push factor

Answer 31

unfavorable attributes of a place- encourages migration

Question 32

pull factor

Answer 32

favorable attributes of a place- attracts migrants

Question 33

refugees

Answer 33

a person that has been forced to leave their country to flee war, persecution, etc.

Question 34

remittances

Answer 34

the money, goods, or services sent home by immigrants

Question 35

transnationalism

Answer 35

the process by which an immigrant develops ties to more than one country

Question 36

unauthorized immigrant

Answer 36

illegal or undocumented immigrants that cross the border without being detected or stay longer than their visa allows

Question 37

voluntary migration

Answer 37

when the immigrant decides their move- no one is forcing them