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Unit 2 Vocab Flashcards

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Arithmetic Population Density

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The total number of people divided by the total land area.

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Physiological Population Density

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Dividing the population by the amount of arable land

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Arable

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Land suited for growing crops

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Agricultural Population Density

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The number of farmers t the area of arable land

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Age-sex graph; Population Pyramid

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A tool based on age , gender, birth rates & deaths , economic development . . .. gives evidence of past events like wars and environmental issues

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Cohorts

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A vertical Axis showing age groups

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Dependency ratio

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The comparison between sizes of potential work force and dependent population.

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Crude Birth Rate

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The number of live birth per year for each 1000 people

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Total fertility rate

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Woman in their childbearing years ages 15 to 49

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Life expectancy

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The number of years a person can live

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Infant Mortality Rate

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the number of children who die before their first birthday

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Crude Death rates

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An Area measured by 1000 population

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Rate of Natural Increase

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The percentage of which a country population grows of declines, Without the impact of migration

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Immigrants

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People who move into the country

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Emigrants

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People who moved out of the country

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Demographic Transition Modal

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Shows 5 typical stages of population change that countries experience as they modernize

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demographic momentum

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The tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution

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epidemiological transition model

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The changes death rates and more common causes of death within society

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Zero Population Growth

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When the Crude Birth Rate equals the Crude Death Rate and the natural increase rate approaches zero

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Replacement fertility

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when the population’s fertility is just high enough to maintain its current population

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Doubling time

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the amount of time it takes for the population of a region to double

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Population Policy

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an official government policy designed to encourage the population to conceive and raise multiple children

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Pro natalist

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An attitude or policy that encourages childbearing.

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Anti natalist

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Government policies that discourage couples from having children.

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Thomas Malthus
suggested that the world's population was growing faster than the rate of food production, and as a result, mass starvation would occur.
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Neo-Malthusians
the population of the world is growing too quickly for the scale of agricultural production to keep up
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Carrying capacity
The ability of the land to sustain a certain number of people
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Overpopulation
The lack of necessary resources to meet the needs of the population of a defined area.
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Migration
groups of people or animals moving from one region or country to another.
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Emigration
leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country)
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Immigration
the physical movement of people from one place to another
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Push factor
people away from their home and include things like war.; something that encourages an individual to migrate away from a certain place
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Pull factor
people to a new home and include things like better opportunities (positive factors that attract people to new areas from other areas)
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Net migration
the difference in the number of people who immigrate to and emigrate from a country.
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Intervening obstacle
a environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration.
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Intervening obstacle
a environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration.
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Intervening opportunity
an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that helps migration.
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Chain migration
Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.
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Voluntary migration
when someone chooses to leave home.
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Forced migration
the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region.
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Step migration
Gradual migration, from farm to village to town to big city
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Lee’s Model of Migration
a model that accounts for push/pull factors and intervening obstacles in order to predict migration patterns
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Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration
Most migrants move only a short distance ( 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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Migration Transition
The change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other changes that also produce demographic transitions
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Migration stream
A constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination.
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International migration
The permanent movement from one country to another
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Internal migration
human movement within a nation-state
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Remittances
Money immigrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries.
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Guest workers
legal immigrant who has work visa, usually short term
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Brain drain
The large-scale emigration of a large group of individuals with technical skills or knowledge.
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Asylum
the protection from oppression or hardship offered by another country.
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Repatriation
A refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of a governmental or non-governmental organization.
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Internally displaced person (IDP)
Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons to a refugee but has not migrated across an international border.

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