Vocab 2 Flashcards
(50 cards)
Agricultural Density
the total number of farmers per unit of arable land
Antinatalist
describing attitudes or policies that discourage childbearing as a means of limiting population growth
Arithmetic Density
the total number of people per unit area of land; also called crude density
Asylum
the right to protection in a country
Brain Drain
the loss of trained or educated people to the lure of work in another—often richer—country
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
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)
the number of births in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population
Crude Death Rate(CDR)
the number of deaths in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population
Demographic Transition Model
a model that represents shifts in the growth of the world’s populations, based on population trends related to birth rate and death rate
Dependency Ratio
the number of people in a dependent age group (under age 15 or age 65 and older) divided by the number of people in the working-age group (age 15 to 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
the 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
a model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton’s law of universal gravitation
Guest Workers
a migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor
Human Migration
the permanent movement of people from one place to another
Human Trafficking
defined by the United Nations as “the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion)”
Immigration
movement to a location
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
the number of deaths in children under the age of 1 per 1,000 live births
