U2 Vocab

Question 1

Carrying capacity

Answer 1

Most people area can support

Question 2

Pop pyramid

Answer 2

Graph showing age-sex distribution

Question 3

Maternal mortality rate

Answer 3

Number of dead mothers for every thousand births

Question 4

Natural increase

Answer 4

Pop growth in year;
CBR - CDR = natural increase

Question 5

Epidemiological transition model

Answer 5

Pop related to changing patterns of mortality + causes, fertility, and life expectancy

Question 6

Malthus

Answer 6

Person who thought pop grew faster than food production, and we’d all be doomed

Question 7

Pronatalist

Answer 7

Policy that encourages birth

Question 8

Birth rate

Answer 8

Number of births for every 1,000 people

Question 9

Dependency ratio

Answer 9

Percentage of people too young or old to work

Question 10

Agricultural density

Answer 10

Ratio of # of farmers to to amount of arable land

Question 11

Pop distribution

Answer 11

Pattern of where people live

Question 12

Push factor

Answer 12

Something that pushes someone away from place

Question 13

Intervening opportunity

Answer 13

Something that changes the course of someone’s original pilgrimage destination

Question 14

Forced migration

Answer 14

People forced to leave their home

Question 15

Internally displaced persons

Answer 15

People forced to migrate but don’t cross international borders; similar reasons to refugees

Question 16

Asylum seeker

Answer 16

Someone who migrates to another country with the hopes of being recognized as a refugee

Question 17

Transhumance

Answer 17

Seasonal migration of livestock between high & lowlands

Question 18

Internal

Answer 18

Type of migration while staying in the country

Question 19

Chain

Answer 19

Migration type when people move because they’re following friends or family

Question 20

Baby bust

Answer 20

Fertility rates dropped in US (‘60s & ’70s)

Question 21

Demography

Answer 21

Study of pop characteristics

Question 22

Brain drain

Answer 22

Lot of skilled workers leave country for better opportunities

Question 23

Net migration

Answer 23

Difference between immigrants & emigrants in place

Question 24

Remittances

Answer 24

Money sent by migrants to family & friends in different country

Question 25

Zero pop growth

Answer 25

Crude birth rate = crude death rate

Question 26

One child policy

Answer 26

Pop policy enforced by Chinese gov. (1979 - 2015)

Question 27

Arithmetic density

Answer 27

Calculation of total number of people living in area

Question 28

Physiological density

Answer 28

Calculation of people per unit of arable land

Question 29

Total fertility rate

Answer 29

Average number of children born to each woman in her life

Question 30

Doubling time

Answer 30

Predicted time for pop to increase twofold

Question 31

Antinatalist

Answer 31

Policy that discourages birth

Question 32

Ravenstein

Answer 32

German geographer that established 11 Laws of Migration

Question 33

Life expectancy

Answer 33

average number of years person expected to live

Question 34

Death rate

Answer 34

Number of deaths per 1,000 people

Question 35

Pull factor

Answer 35

Something that attracts people to a place

Question 36

Voluntary

Answer 36

Migration based on personal choice

Question 37

Refugee

Answer 37

Person forced to live in another country

Question 38

Step

Answer 38

Migration w/ multiple stages

Question 39

Guest worker

Answer 39

Immigrant w/ short-term work visa

Question 40

Baby boom

Answer 40

Sharp increase in US births after WW2

Question 41

Emigrate

Answer 41

Moving out of an area

Question 42

Overpopulation

Answer 42

Population exceeds carrying capacity

Question 43

Quota

Answer 43

limit on number of annual immigrants

Question 44

Census

Answer 44

Survey that counts pop of area & records info about characteristics