Unit 2 Vocab Flashcards
Agriculture Density
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land
The total number of people per unit area of land (crude density)
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Antinatalist
Describing attitudes or policies that discourage child bearing as a means of limiting population growth
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Arithmetic Density
The total number of people per unit area of land
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Asylum
The right to protection in a country
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Brain Drain
Loss of trained or educated people to lure of work in another, often in richer country
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Carrying Capacity
the maximum population size an environment can sustain
Chain Migration:
type of migration in which people move to a location because others from their community have previously migrated there
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Circular Migration
migration pattern in which migrant workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs
Crude birth Rate (CBR):
of births in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population
The number of births in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population
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Crude Death Rate (CDR):
Number of deaths in a given year per 100 people in give population
Demographic Transition Model (DTM):
Model that represents shifts in the growth of worlds populations, based on population trends related to birth and death rates
Dependency Ratio
Number of people in a dependent age group (Under 15 or older than 65) divided by the number of people in the working-age group (15-64) multiplied by 100
Distance Decay
A principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have
Doubling time
Number of years in which a population growing at a certain rate would double
Emigration
Movement away from a location
Epidemiological Transition model (ETM)
A model that describes changes in fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and population age distribution, largely as the result of changes in causes of death
Forced migration
Type of migration in which people are compelled to move by economic, political, environmental or cultural factors
Friction of Distance
A concept that states that the longer a journey is, the more time, effort, and cost it will involve
Gravity model
Model that predicts the interaction between 2 or more places: geographers derived the model from newton’s law of universal gravitational
Guest Worker
Migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor
Human Migration
Permanent movement of people from 1 place to another.
Human Trafficking
Defined by the UN as “recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of person’s by improper means (force, abduction, fraud, or coercion
Immigration
Movement to a location
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
Number of deaths of children under the age of 1 per live births.
