unit 2 Vocab

Question 1

the total number of farmers per unit of arable land

Answer 1

agricultural density

Question 2

describing attuides or policies that discourage childbearing as a means of limiting population growth

Answer 2

antinatalist

Question 3

the total number of people per unit area of land; also called crude density

Answer 3

arithmetic density

Question 4

the right to protection in a country

Answer 4

asylum

Question 5

the less of trained or educated people in lure of work in another-often richer-country

Answer 5

brain drain

Question 6

the maximum population size an enviornment can sustain

Answer 6

carrying capacity

Question 7

the type of migration in which people move to a location because others from their community have previously migrated there

Answer 7

chain migration

Question 8

migration patterns in which migrant workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs.

Answer 8

circular migration

Question 9

the number of births in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population.

Answer 9

crude birth rate (CBR)

Question 10

the number of deaths in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population

Answer 10

crude death rate (CDR)

Question 11

a model that represents shifts in the growths of the worlds populations, based on population trends related to birth rate and death rate

Answer 11

demographic tranisition model

Question 12

the number of people in a dependent age group (under the age 15 or age 65 and older) divided by the number of people in the working-age group (age 15-65) multiplied by 100

Answer 12

dependency ratio

Question 13

a principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another the less interaction the two will have

Answer 13

distance decay

Question 14

the number of years in a which a population growing at a certain rate would doublethe

Answer 14

doubling time

Question 15

a model that describes changes in fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and population age, distrubition, largely as the result of changes in causes of death

Answer 15

epidemiological transition model (ETM)

Question 16

type of migration in which people are compelled to move by economic, political, enviornmental, or cultural factors

Answer 16

forced

Question 17

a concept that states that the longer journey is, the more time, effort, and cost it will involve

Answer 17

friction of distance

Question 18

a model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from newton’s law of universal gravitation

Answer 18

gravity model

Question 19

a foreign worker who is admitted to a country for a limited time to work in a specific sector, typically one with labor shortages

Answer 19

guest workers

Question 20

the permanent movement of people from one place to another

Answer 20

human migration

Question 21

defined by the United Nations as “the recruitment transportation, harboring, or receipt of persons of improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion)

Answer 21

human trafficking

Question 22

movement to a location

Answer 22

immigration

Question 23

the number of deaths of children under the age of 1 per 1,000 live births

Answer 23

infant mortatlity rate (IMR)

Question 24

movement within a countries boarders

Answer 24

internal migration

Question 25

a person who has been forced to flee his or her home but remains within the country's boarders

Answer 25

internally displaced person

Question 26

movement from one region of the country to another

Answer 26

interregional migration

Question 27

an occurrence that's holds migrants back

Answer 27

intervening obstacle

Question 28

an occurrence that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice

Answer 28

intervening oppertunity

Question 29

movement within one region of the country

Answer 29

intraregional migration

Question 30

the average number of years a person is expected to live

Answer 30

life expectancy

Question 31

describing the theory related to the idea that population growth is unsustainable and that the future population cannot be supported by Earth's resources

Answer 31

neo-malthusian

Question 32

the difference between the number of emigrants and immigrants in a location, such as a city or country

Answer 32

net-migration

Question 33

the total number of people per arable land

Answer 33

physiological density

Question 34

the number of people living in a specific area, typically expressed as the number of people per unit of land area

Answer 34

population density

Question 35

where people live in a geographic area

Answer 35

population distribution

Question 36

a graph that shows the age-sec distrubition of a given population

Answer 36

population pyramid

Question 37

describing attitudes or policies that encourage childbearing as a means of spurring population

Answer 37

pronatalist

Question 38

a positive cause that attracts someone to a new location

Answer 38

pull factor

Question 39

a negative cause that compels someone to leave a location

Answer 39

push factor

Question 40

limit on the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year

Answer 40

qouta

Question 41

rate at which a population grows as the result of the difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate

Answer 41

rates of natural increase

Question 42

a person who is forced to leave his or her country for fear of persecution or death

Answer 42

refugees

Question 43

the spread of cultural traits through the movement of people

Answer 43

relocation diffusion

Question 44

money earned by an emigrants abroad and sent back to his or her home country

Answer 44

remittances

Question 45

the proportion of males and females in one a population

Answer 45

sex ratio

Question 46

series of smaller moves to get to the ultimate destination

Answer 46

step migration

Question 47

the average number of children one women in a given country or region will have during her childbearing years

Answer 47

total fertility rate

Question 48

international migration in which people retain strong cultural, emotional, and financial ties with their countries or origin

Answer 48

transitional migration

Question 49

type of migration in which people make the choice to move to a new place

Answer 49

voluntary migration

Question 50

movement away from a location

Answer 50

emigration