Unit 2- Ch 2+3

Question 0

Census

Answer 0

A complete enumeration of a population

Question 1

Agriculture revolution

Answer 1

The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering

Question 2

Crude birth rate CBR

Answer 2

The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society

Question 3

Crude death rate CDR

Answer 3

The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in society

Question 4

Demographic transition

Answer 4

The process of change in a society’s population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates low rate of natural increase and a higher total population

Question 5

Demography

Answer 5

The scientific study of population characteristics

Question 6

Dependency ratio

Answer 6

The number if people under the age of 15 and over age 64 compared to the number if people active in the labor force

Question 7

Doubling time

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Ecumene

Answer 8

The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement

Question 9

Epidemiologic transition

Answer 9

Distinctive causes of death in each stage of demographic transitions

Question 10

Epidemiology

Answer 10

Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence distribution and control if diseases that affect large numbers of people

Question 11

Industrial revolution

Answer 11

A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods

Question 12

Infant mortality rate IMR

Answer 12

The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1000 live births in a society

Question 13

Life expectancy

Answer 13

The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social economic and medical conditions.

Question 14

Medical revolution

Answer 14

Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America Asia and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives

Question 15

Natural increase rate NIR

Answer 15

The precent growth of a population in a year computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate

Question 16

Overpopulation

Answer 16

The number if people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living

Question 17

Pandemic

Answer 17

Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion if the population

Question 18

Population pyramid

Answer 18

A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex

Question 19

Sex ratio

Answer 19

The number of males per 100 females in the population

Question 20

Total fertility rate TFR

Answer 20

The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years

Question 21

Zero population growth ZPG

Answer 21

A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero

Question 22

Brain drain

Answer 22

Large scale emigration by talented people

Question 23

Chain migration

Answer 23

Migration of people to a specific location because of relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there

Question 24

Circulation

Answer 24

Short term repetitive or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis

Question 25

Counterurbanization

Answer 25

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

Question 26

Emigration

Answer 26

Migration from a location

Question 27

Floodplain

Answer 27

The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends

Question 28

Forced migration

Answer 28

Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors

Question 29

Guest workers

Answer 29

Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of northern and Western Europe usually from southern or Eastern Europe or from North Africa in search of higher paying jobs

Question 30

Immigration

Answer 30

Migration to a new location

Question 31

Internal migration

Answer 31

Permanent movement within a particular country

Question 32

International migration

Answer 32

Permeant movement from one country to another

Question 33

Interregional migration

Answer 33

Permanent movement from one region of a country to another

Question 34

Intervening obstacle

Answer 34

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

Question 35

Intraregional migration

Answer 35

Permanent movement within one region of a country

Question 36

Migration

Answer 36

Form of relocation diffusion involving a permeant move to a new location

Question 37

Migration transition

Answer 37

Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization population growth and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition

Question 38

Mobility

Answer 38

All types of movement from one location to another

Question 39

Net migration

Answer 39

The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration

Question 40

Pull factor

Answer 40

Factor that induces people to move to a new location

Question 41

Push factor

Answer 41

Factor that induces people to leave old residences

Question 42

Quotas

Answer 42

In reference to migration laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year

Question 43

Refugees

Answer 43

People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race religion nationality membership in a social group or political opinion

Question 44

Undocumented immigrants

Answer 44

People who enter a country without proper documents

Question 45

Voluntary migration

Answer 45

Permanent movement undertaken by choice