Unit 2 Flash Cards: APHG

Question 1

Arithmetic Population Density

Answer 1

The population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area.
*the figure is derived by dividing the population of the areal unit by the number of square kilometers or miles that make up that unit.

Ex: The U.S. has a population density of 81 per square mile- allows a general contrasts between two countries.

Question 2

Physiological Density

Answer 2

The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.

Ex: The population of a country to the area of arable land it contains.

Question 3

Dot Distribution Maps

Answer 3

Maps where one dot represents a certain number of a phenomena, such as population.

Ex: Looking at dot maps, the color is darking in areas with higher population (India, parts of the U.S., China, ect.)

Question 4

Population Distribution

Answer 4

Descriptions of locations on the Earth’s surface where individuals or groups live.

Ex: Where people are located. Dot maps are used to represent this.

Question 5

Megalopolis

Answer 5

Designate large coalescing supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world.

Ex: Refers to Boston - Washington’s metropolitan corridor on the northeastern seaboard of the U.S.

Question 6

Census

Answer 6

A periodic and official count of a county’s population.

E.x: The United States does their census every 10 years. You answer a few questions and tell how many people are living per house hold.

Question 7

Doubling Time

Answer 7

The time required for population to double in size. Every growth rate has a doubling time.

E.x. If you invest $100 at 10%, it would take about 7 years to double to $200, another 7 years to become $400, and another 7 to become $800 ect. When the growth rate is 10%, the doubling time is about 7 years.

Question 8

Natural Increase Rate

Answer 8

Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths. This is not affected by immigrant or emigrant moments.

E.x: If a country wanted to increase their population, their goal would be to have more births than deaths.

Question 9

Crude Birth Rate

Answer 9

The number of live births yearly per thousand people in a population.

E.x: Comes out as a ratio.

Question 10

Crude Death Rate

Answer 10

The number of deaths yearly per thousand people in a population.

E.x: Comes out as a ratio.

Question 11

Demographic Transition

Answer 11

Multistage model based on Western Europe’s experiences, of changes in population growth exhibited by countries undergoing industrialization.

E.x: High birth rates and death rates, followed by plunging death rates, producing net population gain.

Question 12

Stationary Population Level

Answer 12

The level at which a national population level ceases to grow: stays the same.

E.x: a country’s birth rates and death rates stay the same. The total population numbers stay the same.

Question 13

Population Composition

Answer 13

Structure of a population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as martial status and education.

E.x: the structure of the population (number of males, females, ages ect).

Question 14

Population Pyramids

Answer 14

Visual representation of of the age and sex composition of population whereby the percentage of each age group is represented.

E.x: In class, population pyramids were used to compare different countries, look at population, and show population increases and decreases.

Question 15

Expansive Population Policies

Answer 15

Government policies that encourage large families and raise the rate of population growth.

E.x: A country such as Russia puts in place expansive policies to increase their total population.

Question 16

Eugenic Population Policies

Answer 16

Government policies that designed to favor one racial sector over the other.

E.x: The Holocaust is an example Eugenic policies. The Nazi government segregated and singles out the Jews and minorities within their country.

Question 17

Restrictive Population Policies

Answer 17

Government population policies designed to reduce the rate of natural population increase.

E.x: India is taking restrictive policies into effect in order to decrease their population.

Question 18

Cyclic Movement

Answer 18

Movement that has a closed rout and is repeated annually.

E.x: Nomadic Migration

Question 19

Periodic Movement

Answer 19

Movement that involves temporary, recurrent location.

E.x: College attendance

Question 20

Activity Space

Answer 20

The Space within which daily activity occurs.

E.x: School and my house are examples of my activity space.

Question 21

Nomadism

Answer 21

Movement along a definite set of places- often cyclic movement.

E.x: People going up up in the mountains to herd sheep and then coming back.

Question 22

Migrant Labor

Answer 22

A type of periodic movement involving millions of workers in the US to cross international borders in search of employment.

E.x: Workers from Mexico come to the US for agricultural work during the season and then go back when it is over.

Question 23

Transhumance

Answer 23

A seasonal periodic movement of livestock between highland and lowland pastures.

E.x: Farmers herd cattle up into the mountains and then back down.

Question 24

International/Internal Migration

Answer 24

International: migrating out of the country
Internal: staying in the countries borders.

Question 25

Forced Migration

Answer 25

Migration by force, not choice.

E.x: The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust are examples of forced migration.

Question 26

Voluntary Migration

Answer 26

Migration by chose, willing migration.

E.x: People migrating any where for their own reasons.

Question 27

Laws of Migration

Answer 27

Created by Ravenstien, five laws that predict the laws of migration.

Question 28

Gravity Model

Answer 28

A mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them.

Question 29

Push/ Pull Factors

Answer 29

Push and pull factors affect the design that immigrants make when they migrate.

Pull factors: Things that would be better than the place that the immigrant lives now (“grass is greener on the other side”) E.x: Job opportunity kinship links.

Push factors: Things that push the immigrants design to leave the area. E.x: War, famine, racial prosecution.

Question 30

Distance Decay

Answer 30

The affects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance, the less interaction.

E.x: Mount Prospect and Des Plaines will have a greater interaction than Mount Prospect and Barrington.

Question 31

Step Migration

Answer 31

People will migrate in steps:
Rural, urban, big city.

E.x: Immigrants take steps to got from one kind of living, rural, to urban.

Question 32

Intervening Opportunity

Answer 32

The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.

E.x: Family in one area,, no job where migrating.

Question 33

Kinship Links

Answer 33

Types of push and pull factors that influence a migrant’s decision to go where family or friends have already found success.

E.x: In Maine, immigrants from Saudi Arabia migrated because of kinship links.

Question 34

Chain Migration

Answer 34

Pattern of migration that developed when migrants move along and through kinship links.

E.x: One migrant migrating, then another and another ect.

Question 35

Immigration Waves

Answer 35

Phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination.

E.x: Muslims migrating to the Netherlands.

Question 36

Global Scale Migration

Answer 36

Migration going across the world.

E.x: Some one migrating from Africa to Europe.

Question 37

Colonization

Answer 37

A colonizer takes over another place, putting government in charge, bring its own people onto the land and/or take control of the native people.

E.x: Christopher Columbus colonized part of America.

Question 38

Islands of Development

Answer 38

Place built up by government or corporation to attracts foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs an infrastructure.

E.x: Boston was designed has a island of development.

Question 39

Refugee

Answer 39

People who had fled their home country because of political persecution, and seek asylum in another country.

E.x: War, and natural disasters are things that can cause refugees. Africa has many refugees because of its civil war.

Question 40

Internally Displaced Persons.

Answer 40

People that are displaced within their own country

E.x: Hurricane Katrina victims were internally displaced.

Question 41

Asylum

Answer 41

Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state.

E.x: Immigrants get asylum in the U.S from war town countries.

Question 42

Repatriation

Answer 42

A refugee or group returning to their home, country, usually with the assistance of government or a non-governmental organization.

Question 43

Genocide

Answer 43

The mass killing of people.

E.x: The holocaust was a genocide.