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Arithmitic population density

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The population of a country or area expressed as an avarage per unit

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Population density

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The number of people per given unit of land.

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Psychological population density

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The number of people per unit of arible land

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Population distribution

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Locations where populations are.

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Megalopolis

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Large, diverse, cities

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Census

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A periodic and offical count of a country’s population.

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Doubling time

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The time required for a population to double

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Population explosion

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The rapid growth of human population over the last century

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Natural increase

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Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths

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Crude birth rate

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The number of live births yearly per thousand people in a population

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Crude death rate

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The number of deaths yearly per thousand people in a population

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Demographic trasition model

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A multistage model based on Western Europe’s progression

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Stationary population level

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The level at which a population ceases to grow

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Population composition

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Structure of population in terms of age/sex/mertial status/education/etc.

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Population pyramids

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Visual representations of age/sex compositions of a population

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Infant mortality rate

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A figure that discribes the number of babies that die within the first year of their lives

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Newborn mortality rate

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The number of infants that die within the first month of their life

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Child mortality rate

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Describes the number if children that die between 1-5 years of life

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Life expectancy

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How long the avarage person will live

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Infectious diseases

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Spread by viruses/parasites. Diffuse direct/indirect human to human

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Chronic/degenrative diseases

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Long-lasting afflictions more common because of higher life expectancies

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Genetic diseases

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Caused by variable/mutation of a gene/group of genes in a human

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Endemic

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Particular to a locality or region

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Expansive pop. Policies

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Gov. Policies designed to increase the population

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Eugenic population policies
Gov. Policies that favor one race over another
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Restrictive pop. Policies
Gov. Polices designed to lower the birth rate
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One-child policy
Progran established by chinese governmment in 1979to lower chinese population growth
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Agricultural revolution
The time when humans first domesticated plants/animals and were no longer hunters/gatherers
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AIDS
Accuired immune deficiency syndrome
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Arable lands
Farmable lands
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Awarness space
Knowledge of opportuntiy spaces outside of activity space
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Carrying capacity
The largest amount of induviduals and enviornment can sustain
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Chain migration
Migration of people to where their kin migrated to
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Critical distance
The distance beyond which cost/efforts/mean play a deterniming role in willingness to travel
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Demographic movement
Tendency for gorwing pop. To continue gorwing after a fertility drop
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Demography
The quantative study of human populations
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Density
Freuency with which something occurs in a space
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Dislocation
Something that is forcably removed from its homeland
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Distance decay
The effect of distance on interaction
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Emigration
Migrating out of a country
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Epidemic transition
Tracks the development of an epidemic
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Exponental growth
Growth that occurs when a fixed percentage of new people are added to a new population
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Female infenticide
When only female fetuses are aborted
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Gravity model
Interactions between two populations devided by distance
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Immigration
Migration into a country
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Industrial revolution
An earlier era when a huge technolgical boom happened
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In-migration
To move into a large community
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Internal migration
Human movement within a nation
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Inter-regional migration
Migration to another region
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Intervinging obstacles
Some obstacle stops a migrant from reaching their orginal destination
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Innterving oppertunity
An opportunity that is more porfitsble to the migrant than the orginal destionation
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Intra-regional migration
Migration that occurs within one region
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Thomas malthus
"If the world population doesn't stablize, overcrowding will happen. Also, population growth is exponental and food growth is linear
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Natural increase
Increase of the population of a country subtracted from the deaths
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Neo-malthus
The world is characterized by scarsity and compition
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Net migration
Difference between in-migrants and out-migrants
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Pull factors
Factors that actract migrants to an area
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Push factors
Factors that lead to people leaving an area
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Race
Classifles people based on physical characteristics
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Ernst Ravenstein
An british demographer who developed the five laws of migration
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Refugees
People who migrate out of their home countries due to extreme push factors
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Step migration
Migration that occurs in stages
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Voluntary migration
Perment movement out of one's free will
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Zero population growth
A stage that occurs when birth rates=death rates
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Remittances
Money migrates send back to their families in their home countries
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Cyclic movements
Movement thta has a closed route and is repeated seasonally or annually
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Periodic movements
Movements that involve temporary, reccurent relocation
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Nomadism
Movements between a definte set of places
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Migrant labor
A type of periodic movement that involves workers worldwide who cross borders for employment
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Transhumance
A seasonal movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland
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Military servace
A form of periodic movement invloving millitary familes moving to new locations for tours of duty
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International migration
Movement across international boundaries
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Forced migration
The movers have no choice but to move
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Laws of migration
Developed by british demographer ernst ravenstein, five laws that predict the flow of migration
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Deportation
A government sends a migrant back to their home country
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Kinship links
Push/pull factors that influence a migrant's disicion on where to go
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Immigraton wave
Different patterns of chain migrarion that build apon each other and create a swell of migration from one place to another
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Colonization
Rule by automous power over a subordinate/alien people/place
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Regional scale
Intractions occuring in a region
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Islands of development
Place bulit by a government/coperation to attaract foreign investment
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Guest workers
Legal immigrants with a work visa
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Internally dispalced person
People who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee
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Asylum
Shelter/protection from one state for refugees from another state
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Repatriation
Refugees returning to their home countries with the help of an organization
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Genocide
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, generally of an ethnic group
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Qoutas
Established limits by governments on the number of migrants per year
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Selective immigration
Process to control immigration where induviduals of a certain ethnicity are barred from immigration

Humanities Vocabulary (6 decks)

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