Unit 4 Population and Settlement Flashcards
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Intervening obstacles
A physical or cultural / political reason why people cannot or will not migrate.
Concentrated (settlement patterns)
- occur where other natural resources are present
- these resources cause people to settle near them.
natural increase
natural increase is the difference between the numbers of births and deaths in a population
“brain drain”
the emigration of highly trained or qualified people from a particular country
zoning
Zoning refers to municipal or local laws or regulations that dictate how real property can and cannot be used in certain geographic areas. Zoning laws can limit commercial or industrial use of land in order to prevent oil, manufacturing or other types of businesses from building in residential neighborhoods.
dependency load
The dependency load is a group of people who are either 14 and younger or 65 and older. These people are either too young and retired to be able to take care of themselves.
dispersed
Spread out as far a possible,in as many directions as possible
xenophobia
fear of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers:
(examples of) death control
Factors that prolong life advances in Healthcare and medicine
Example medicine and vaccines
winter city concept
Winter Cities is a concept for communities in northern latitudes that encourages them to plan their transportation systems, buildings, and recreation project around the idea of using their infrastructure during all four seasons, rather than just two seasons (summer and autumn).
demography
Is the study of population numbers, distribution trends and issues
linear
a linear settlement is a (normally small to medium-sized) settlement or group of buildings that is formed in a long line. Many follow a transport route, such as a road, river, or canal though some form due to physical restrictions, such as coastlines, mountains, hills or valleys.
urbanization
an increase in the number of people living in urban settlements,
examples of) birth control
Factors that prevent birth
Examples pills, condoms, diaphragm, morning pills etc
overshoot
Is depleting the natural capital on which all of life depends. This problem is using resources faster than they can regularly
Carrying capacity
Largest number of individuals of a population that a given environment support.
survey system
a means of making relatively large-scale, accurate measurements of the Earth’s surfaces
hierarchy of urban services/products
The Urban hierarchy ranks each city based on the size of population residing within the nationally defined statistical urban area.
Residential density
means the average number of families living on one acre of land in a given area.
threshold population
Is the minimum number of people needed for a service to be worthwhile
difference between emigration & immigration
Immigration can be called as moving into a country and emigration as moving out of a country.
differences between “melting pot” & “tossed salad” societies
Tossed salad is encouraged to retain to their culture but melting pot is a place (such as a city or country) where different types of people live together and gradually create one community
differences between low , middle , high order goods and services
Low-order products are products that are frequently purchased and are inexpensive. Middle-order products are time-to-time items that are purchased but not as frequently as low-order products. These items are considered a bit pricier. High-order products are the most expensive items or have a limited market and are hardly purchased.
identify characteristics of each stage of demographic transition
Stage one
Pre industrialized society, deaths rates and birth rates are high and roughly in balance
Stage two
Developing country, the death rate rapidly due to improvement in food supply and sanitation, which increases life spans and reduce disease
Stage three
Country that is still developing birth rates fall due to access to contraception, increases in wages, urbanization, red verification subsistence agriculture and the education of women
Stage four
Developed nations with low birth rates and low deaths rates are experienced