THE BIG LIST - UNIT 2

Question 1

Graph that shows the number of males and females in each age group within a population. Pyramids with large bases have many young people (LDC’s) Beehive or column shapes indicate an aging population (MDC’s)

Answer 1

Population pyramid

Question 2

Policies that encourage people to have children. More likely in countries in stage 4 of the dem trans.

Answer 2

Pronatalist

Question 3

Policies that discourage people from having children (China’s One Child Policy). More likely in countries in stage 2 of the dem trans

Answer 3

Antinatalist

Question 4

People born between 1946 and 1964. Largest population cohort in US history. Now entering retirement. Will strain taxpayers and entitlement (government retirement) programs, such as social security as more money is needed to care for a growing number of elderly dependents. This also causes the number of taxpayers to decrease as a percentage of the population.

Answer 4

Baby Boomers

Question 5

Large scale emigration of highly skilled people from less developed regions. This can exacerbate economic and social issues in these regions, due to the growing absence of professionals needed to alleviate them

Answer 5

Brain Drain

Question 6

The number of people that can live off the resources and arable land in a place. The ability of a place to feed and support its population. If population exceeds carrying capacity, food and/or resources must be imported.

Answer 6

Carrying capacity

Question 7

Age and sex category in a population pyramid.

Answer 7

Cohort

Question 8

calculates population and population increase based on CBR, CDR, and net migration

Answer 8

Demographic accounting equation

Question 9

the tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution. Even after a decrease in birth rates to replacement fertility, population will still grow until elder cohorts die off.

Answer 9

Demographic momentum

Question 10

The number of people who are too young or too old to work compared to the number of people in their productive years. - tells how many people each worker supports

Answer 10

Dependency ratio

Question 11

Number of children the average woman will have in her child bearing years.

Answer 11

Total Fertility Rate

Question 12

Replacement fertility rate

Answer 12

2.1

Question 13

number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase

Answer 13

doubling time

Question 14

The proportion of earth’s surface occupied by permanent human settlement. Has increased with improved technology.

Answer 14

Ecumene

Question 15

The annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births.

Answer 15

Infant mortality rate

Question 16

Argued that the world’s rate of population increase was far outrunning the increase in food supply

Answer 16

Malthus, Thomas

Question 17

ratio of live births to the population, it is expressed as # of birth in year to every 1000 people alive in the society

Answer 17

Crude birth rate

Question 18

theory that builds upon Malthus’ thoughts on overpopulation. Deals not only with food but also outstripping of resources other than food

Answer 18

Neo-malthusian

Question 19

population of a place exceeds the availability of food and resources

Answer 19

Overpopulation

Question 20

percentage by which a population grows in a year

Answer 20

Natural Increase Rate

Question 21

number of males per hundred females in the population

Answer 21

Sex ratio

Question 22

quality and quantity of goods and services available to people and the way they are distributed within a population

Answer 22

Standard of living

Question 23

best outcomes for human and natural environments both in the present and for the future

Answer 23

Sustainability

Question 24

the crude birth rate equals the crude death rate and the natural increase rate approaches zero.

Answer 24

Zero population growth

Question 25

Migration of people of one nationality to a specific place to be close to others of their same nationality in a foreign country.

Answer 25

Chain migration

Question 26

Diaspora

Answer 26

Term applies to members of an ethnic group found outside of their cultural homeland

Question 27

People forced to move, due because of war, natural disaster, or political instability

Answer 27

Forced Migration

Question 28

Permanent movement within a particular country.

Answer 28

Internal Migration

Question 29

hinders migration

Answer 29

Intervening obstacle

Question 30

Opportunity that prevents movement farther across space

Answer 30

Intervening Opportunity

Question 31

Permanent movement from one country to another

Answer 31

International Migration

Question 32

Permanent movement from one region within a country to another.

Answer 32

Interregional Migration

Question 33

Permanent movement from rural areas to the urban city area (most common form of migration worldwide)

Answer 33

Rural-Urban

Question 34

Factors that induce people to leave old residence and move to new locations.

Answer 34

Push-Pull Factors

Question 35

People who are forced to migrate from their home country and are unable to return because of fear of persecution

Answer 35

Refugees

Question 36

not been able to escape the country of origin, no longer able
to live at home/ fleeing conflict.

Answer 36

Internally displaced person

Question 37

Money sent by migrants to family members still living “back home” in the source country

Answer 37

Remittances

Question 38

Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture area

Answer 38

Transhumance