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AP Human Geo Unit 2 Flashcards

1
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What is:

Population Distribution

(The pattern of what?)

A

The pattern of where people live

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What is:

Arithmetic Density

(Per unit)

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The number of people per unit land area

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What is:

Physiological Density

(supported, unit area, arable, land)

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The number of people supported by a unit area of arable land

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What is:

Agricultural Density

(Farmers)

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Ratio of the number of farmers to amount of arable land

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What is an:

Ecumene

(Permanently settle)

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Areas where humans permanently settle is called

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What is a:

Population Pyramid

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The visual display of a country’s distinctive population structure

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What is:

Sex ratio

(x males, 100 females)

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The number of males per 100 females in the population

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What is:

Dependency Ratio

(Too young/old : Working)

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The number of people who are too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive (working) years

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What is the:

Crude Birth Rate

(Birth : 1000)

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The total number of live birth in a year for every 1000 people alive in society

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What is the:

Crude Death Rate

(Death : 1000)

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The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in society

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What is the:

Natural Increase Rate

(The … by which a … grows in a …)

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The percentage by which a population grows in a year

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What is the:

Doubling time

(…assuming constant rate of natural increase)

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The number of years needed to double the population, assuming constant rate of natural increase

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What is the:

Total Fertility Rate

(Average number)

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The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years (15-49)

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What is the:

Infant Mortality rate

(Infant deaths, compared with total live births)

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The rate that’s defined as the annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births

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What is the:

Demographic Transition Model

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A model consisting of four stages that helps to explain the rising and falling of natural increase over time in a country

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What is the:

Epidemiological Transition Model

(Most common cause of deaths)

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The most common cause of deaths found in ech stage of the Demographic Transition Model

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What is the:

Malthus Theory

(food)

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A theory that claims that the population was growing faster than the increase in food supply leading to mass starvation

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What’s a:

Neo-Malthusian

(Neo=New, carrying capacity)

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People who believe that the population will outgrow the carrying capacity today

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What is:

Carrying Capacity

(of the species, sustain indefinitely)

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The maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment

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20
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What is the:

Pronatalist Policy

(Encourages couples to what?)

A

A policy that encourages couples to have more children

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21
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What is the:

Antinatalist Policy

(Reduce what?)

A

A policy that attempts to reduce birth rates

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22
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What are:

Quota Laws

(Maximum number of people who could…?)

A

Maximum number of people who could immigrate to the United Staes during a one-year period

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23
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What is:

Migration

A

A permanent move to a new location

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24
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What is:

Emigration

A

Moving from a location

25
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What is:

Immigration

A

Moving to a location

26
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What is a:

Push Factor

(Out)

A

Induce people to move out of their present location

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27
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What is a:

Pull Factor

(Induce, in)

A

Induce people to move into a new location

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28
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What is a:

Intervening obstacle

A

Negative features or circumstances that hinder/prevent migration

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29
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What is:

Voluntary Migration

(By choice)

A

Permenant move from one place to another by choice

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30
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What is:

Forced Migration

(Little choice)

A

Permanent move from one place to another with little choice in the matter

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31
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What is:

International

(Permanent, think of migration)

A

Permanent move from one country to another

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32
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When you get this card?

A

Take a break

33
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What is:

Internal

(Permanent, within, country)

A

Permanent move within a country

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34
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What is:

Internal Interregional

(One region to another, i.e. rural to urban)

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Movement from one region to another. i.e. rural to urban

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35
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What is

Internal Intraregional

(Within a region)

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Movement within a region. i.e. central city to a newer suburban center

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36
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What is:

Transnational

(what’s migration?)

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Permanent movement from one country to another. Some examples would be the waves of migration from Europe, Asia, and Latin America to the US

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37
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What is:

Transhumance

(Mountains+summer, pastures+winter)

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The seasonal migration/moving of livestock between mountains (in summer) and lowland pastures (in winter)

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38
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What is a:

Chain

(Relatives previously, people)

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Migration of people to a specific location because relatives/members of the same nationality previously migrated there.

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39
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What are:

Steps

(migration…a final destination)

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Migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination. (An example would be a move from a farm to nearby village to town to city)

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40
Q

What is a:

Guest Worker

(In search of higher paying jobs)

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A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developing countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher paying jobs

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41
Q

….

Rural to Urban

(Agriculture to factories)

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Often found in stage 2 of the demographic transition. As counties develop, less people are needed to work in agriculture. Many people are attracted to new industrializing cities where they can find jobs in manufacturing (factories)

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42
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What is:

Slavery

(detaining a human by…?)

A

The process of detaining a human aganist their will or by threat of violence.

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43
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Who are:

Refugees

(forced migration, potential threat)

A

Someone who has been forced to migrate to avoid a potential threat to his/her life, and they can not return for fear of persecution

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44
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Who are:

Internally displaced persons

(Not migrated across an international…?)

A

People similar to a refugee, but has not migrated across an international border.

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45
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Who are:

Asylum Seekers

(being recognized as a refugee)

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Someone who has migrated to another country in hope of being recognized as a refugee

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AP Human Geo Unit 1-4 (4 decks)

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