#2 Population, Migration and Health

Question 1

arithmetic density

Answer 1

The total population divided by the total land area

Question 2

Physiologic Density

Answer 2

The total population divided by the total arable land

Question 3

Agricultural Density

Answer 3

The number of farmers divided by the total arable land

Question 4

Carrying Capacity

Answer 4

The total number of organisms that can be supported by an environment

Question 5

Population Pyramid

Answer 5

A diagram that shows the age and sex characteristics of a population

Question 6

Sex Ratio

Answer 6

The comparison of the number of males and females born in a society

Question 7

Dependency Ratio

Answer 7

The number of 15 year olds or younger and people64 and older in a place as compared to the people aged 16-63.

Question 8

Demographic Transition Model

Answer 8

Shows the population characteristics of a country over time and in relation to economic development

Question 9

Epidemiological Transition Model

Answer 9

Shows what the main causes of death are in a place as related to economic development and population characteristics

Question 10

Total Fertility Rate

Answer 10

The number of babies a woman in a place can expect to have in her childbearing years

Question 11

Crude Birth Rate

Answer 11

Number of births per 1000 population

Question 12

Crude Death Rate

Answer 12

Number of deaths per 1000 population

Question 13

Natural Increase Rate

Answer 13

Births-deaths x100 shows rate at which a population is growing without migration

Question 14

Malthusian Theory

Answer 14

Theory that population is outpacing food production and will lead to social collapse, famine, war etc.

Question 15

Pronatalist policy

Answer 15

A governmental policy that encourages families to increase their number of children

Question 16

Antinatalist policy

Answer 16

A governmental policy that discourages people from having children

Question 17

Push factor

Answer 17

A social, political, environmental, or economic condition that leads someone to leave their home for another place

Question 18

Pull Factor

Answer 18

A social, political, environmental, or economic reason people move to a particular place

Question 19

Forced Migration

Answer 19

Migration where Social, political, economic, and environmental factors leave a person no choice but to migrate for their safety.

Question 20

Voluntary Migration

Answer 20

Migration that is the choice of those migrating

Question 21

Transhumance

Answer 21

The seasonal migration of herders from lower areas to highland areas and back again

Question 22

Chain Migrathin

Answer 22

Migration that occurs when people from the same country, town or area join someone from the same place who has already migrated to a new place. Many times this is family or friends.

Question 23

Rural to Urban Migration

Answer 23

When people move from the country to the city in search of better jobs/living conditions due to lack of jobs/opportunities

Question 24

Guest worker program

Answer 24

When a country allows immigrants to enter the country legally with temporary status

Question 25

Step migration

Answer 25

Most long distance migrants move from one place to another in a series of moves, not in one move