Unit two vocab Flashcards
(25 cards)
Intervening Opportunity
Nearby attractive locale where migrants may decide to settle instead of going to the intended destination farther away
Pronatalist
Are designed to boost fertility rates and ultimately population growth
Zero Population Growth
when a country has the same number of births and deaths in a given year and it’s rate of natural increase is zero
Arithmetic Density
The average number of people per unit of land area
Quota
A law that limits the number of prospective immigrants who can be admitted into a country every year.
Remittances
Money sent from a foreign worker to friends and
family in their country of origin
Carrying Capacity
The number of people a particular environment or earth as a whole can support on a sustainable basis
Pull factor
The attributes of other places that make them appealing to potential migrants
Internally Displaced Persons
someone who remains within his or her countries borders despite being persecuted by their home country (often forced to migrate)
Dependency Ratio
The number of dependents in a population that each 100 working age people must support
Step
A Gracian carried out in a series of stages usually from nearby to bigger and more distant places
Asylum Seeker
Someone who has migrated to another country in hopes of being admitted and recognized as a refugee.
Population Distribution
The pattern of where people live
Total Fertility Rate
The average number of children born per woman during her reproductive lifetime
Physiological Density
The average number of people per unit area of arable land
Chain
the process by which some peoples migration to a new place leave their family members, friends, and others to move to the same place.
Guest worker
a person with temporary permission to work in another country
Antinatalist
Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rates
Brain Drain
a phenomenon where a country or a place loses young, more educated, and skilled people through migration
Voluntary
Migration that is done willingly
Natural Increase
The difference between the CBR (crude birth rate) and CDR (crude death rate); a statistic that estimates the population growth of a country, not including population loss or gain due to migration
Ravenstein
made a set of 11 laws proposed in 1885 that
describe why immigrants move, how they move, and their characteristics.
Demography
The study of human populations
Push factor
Factors that cause people to be dissatisfied with their present locales I want to move somewhere else
