Unit 2 Exam

Question 1

Demographic Transition

Answer 1

The change in population characteristics of a country to reflect medical technology and social development.

Question 2

Stage 1 - DTM

Answer 2

• High CBR : Agricultural Society
• High CDR : plagues, famine, & war
• Low NIR

Question 3

Stage 2 - DTM

Answer 3

• High CBR
• Declining CDR : Industrial Revolution - agricultural & medical improvements
• High NIR

Question 4

Stage 3 - DTM

Answer 4

• Declining CBR : urbanization, wealth, education, contraceptives
• Low CDR
• Low NIR

Question 5

Stage 4 - DTM

Answer 5

• Low CBR : low TFR
• Low CDR
• Very Low NIR

Question 6

Hypothetical Stage 5 - DTM

Answer 6

Negative Increase Rate and Population Growth

Question 7

Stage 1 - ETM

Answer 7

• epidemics : infectious diseases; famine

example - black death

Question 8

Stage 2 - ETM

Answer 8

• receding pandemics

example : Cholera

Question 9

Stage 3 - ETM

Answer 9

• Degenerative Diseases (human created)

example : Cardiovascular disease and Cancer

Question 10

Stage 4 - ETM

Answer 10

• Delayed Degenerative Diseases

example : cancer, Alzheimers, diabetes

Question 11

Stage 5 ? - ETM

Answer 11

• Reemerging infectious diseases

examples : Malaria, Ebola, Aids, TB

Question 12

Thomas Malthus Assumptions

Answer 12

• Food is necessary for survival

- humans will always make babies

Question 13

TM conclusions

Answer 13

• population grows faster than food supply
  ~ food increases arithmetically : certain amount of arable : land available - limits food supply
  ~ population increases geometrically : this impacts economics and public policy

Question 14

Positive Checks

Answer 14

• raises the death rate

- wars, famine, and disease

Question 15

Preventive Checks

Answer 15

• lower the birth rate

- abstinence, birth control, celibacy

Question 16

Critcisms of Malthus

Answer 16

• food increases with technology : fertilizer, pesticides, tools
• Science = agriculture
• Increased labor force = more ideas to improve society

Question 17

Modern Results

Answer 17

• WP doubled in the 2nd half of the 20th century
• Calorie intake increased
• much of Malthus had been discredited

Question 18

Migration

Answer 18

The long term relocation of an individual to a new location outside the community of origin.

Question 19

Push Factor

Answer 19

factors that cause locals to leave their place of residence

Question 20

Pull Factor

Answer 20

draws/attracts a migrant to a place

Question 21

Wilbur Kelinsky

Answer 21

Migration Transition Model

Question 22

Stage 1 - MTM

Answer 22

• daily/seasonal migration for food

Question 23

Stage 2 - MTM

Answer 23

• Mass international migration begins

- improved farming = decrease in workers

Question 24

Stage 3 & 4 - MTM

Answer 24

• International migration continues

Question 25

Internal Migration

Answer 25

cities to suburbs

Question 26

Stage 5 - MTM

Answer 26

back to cities?

Question 27

Brain Drain

Answer 27

large scale emigration by talented people : problem in the middle east - shortage of professionals and laborers

Question 28

emigration

Answer 28

exit

Question 29

immigration

Answer 29

enter

Question 30

guest workers

Answer 30

- europe and middle east - protected by host country laws - perform low skills jobs

Question 31

refugee

Answer 31

a person forced out of their home because of political persecution - not due to enslavement

Question 32

quota

Answer 32

maximum limits

Question 33

Internally Displaced Person

Answer 33

basically the same as refugee, but doesn't move across an international border

Question 34

Asylum Speaker

Answer 34

someone who has migrated to another country in hopes of being recognized as refugee.

Question 35

foodplain

Answer 35

an area subject to flooding during a specific number of years

Question 36

Remittance

Answer 36

the transfer of $ by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated.

Question 37

Unauthorized Immigrant

Answer 37

someone who is entering without proper documents

Question 38

chain migration

Answer 38

you move to the place your relative moved to previously

Question 39

circular migration

Answer 39

temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment

Question 40

arithmetic density

Answer 40

total number of objects in an area

Question 41

physiological density

Answer 41

of people supported by a unit of arable land

Question 42

agricultural density

Answer 42

ratio of the # of farmers to the amount of arable land