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Unit 2 - Population and Migration Flashcards

1
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The pattern of human settelement– the spread of people across the world.

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Population Distribution

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2
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Population per square mile or kilometer

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Population Density

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3
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Regions between 30 degrees North and 60 degrees North and regions between 30 degrees South and 60 degrees South

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Midlatitudes

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4
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The hierarchal division of the population into groups based on factors such as economic power, ethnicity, and region

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Social Stratification

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5
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Calculated by dividing a region’s population by its total area

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Arithmetic Population Density

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6
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Dividing the population by the amount of arable land

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Physiological Population Density

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7
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Land suitable for growing crops

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Arable

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8
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The population in which the environment can support without significant environmental deterioration

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Carrying Capacity

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9
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The number of farmers to the number of arable land

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Agricultural Population Density

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10
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The changing of political boundaries

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Redistricting

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11
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A larger population then an environment can support

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Overpopulation

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12
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Provides data on age, gender, birth rates, death rates, life span, and economic development

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Age-sex Composition Map/ Population Pyramid

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13
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The vertical axis that shows age in a population pyramid

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Cohort

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14
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The slowdown of births

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Birth Deficit

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15
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When the birth rate spikes

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Baby Boom

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16
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The boom ends and birth rates are low for a couple of years

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Baby Bust

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17
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An increase that reflects on an earlier baby boom

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Echo

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18
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A value comparing the working to the non-working part of the population

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Dependency ratio

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19
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The group expected to be society’s labor force

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Potential Workforce

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20
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The people in the population who are under 15 and over 64 (too young or old to work full time)

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Dependent Population

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21
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The number of live births per year for each 1,000 people

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Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

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22
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The average number of children who would be born per woman ages 15-49 in a country, assuming every woman lived through her childbearing years.

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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

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23
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Programs to decrease the number of births

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Anti-natalist Policies

24
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Programs designed to increase the fertility rate

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Pro-natalist Policies

25
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The number of years the average person will live

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Life Expectancy

26
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The number of children who die before their first birthday

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Infant Mortality Rate

27
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Shows five typical stages of population change that countries pass through as they modernize

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Demographic Transition Model

28
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High birth rate and low life expectancy

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Expansive Population Pyramid

29
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A population that is not significantly growing or shrinking

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Stationary Population Pyramid

30
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The death rate of a population per 1,000 people

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Crude Death Rate

31
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The percentage at which a population is growing or declining without the impact of migration

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Rate of Natural Increase

32
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people who move into the country

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immigrants

33
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people who move out of the country

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emigrants

34
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Total Population Change = Births - Deaths + Immigrants - Emigrants

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Demographic Balancing Equation

35
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Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.

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Epidemiological Transition Model

36
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Theory of population growth in which population growth occurs exponentially, so it increases according to birth rate.

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Malthusian Theory

37
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People who have modernized the Malthusian Theory.

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Neo-Malthusians

38
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The permanent or semi-permanent relocation of people from one place to another.

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Migration

39
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A movement made by choice.

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Voluntary Migration

40
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Negative circumstances, events, or conditions.

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Push Factors

41
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Positive circumstances, events, or conditions.

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Pull Factors

42
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Protection from danger in the home country.

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Asylum

43
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Barriers that make reaching the desired destination more difficult

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Intervening Obstacles

44
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The idea that most migrants move only a short distance. There is a process of absorption, whereby people immediately surrounding a rapidly growing town move into it and the gaps they leave are filled by migrants from more distant areas, and so on until the attractive force (pull factors) is spent.

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Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration

45
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A process in which migrants reach their final destination through a series of smaller moves.

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Step Migration

46
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A model in urban geography derived from Newton’s law of gravity is used to predict the degree of migration interaction between two places.

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Gravity Model of Migration

47
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Immigrants who return to their home country.

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Return Migration

48
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People do not choose to relocate but do so under threat of violence.

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Forced Migration

49
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A migrant who has moved to another part of their original country once the danger has passed

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Internally Displaced Person

50
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A migrant who has a well-founded fear that they will be harmed if they return home

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Refugees

51
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When people move to communities where relatives have previously migrated to

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Chain Migration

52
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Neighborhoods filled primarily with people of the same ethnic group

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Ethnic Enclaves

53
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A strong dislike of people who practice another culture

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Xenophobia

54
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When migration out of a country is made up of highly skilled people

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Brain Drain

55
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Money immigrants send to their friends and family in the countries they left

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Remittances

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