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AP Human Unit 2 Flashcards

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ant natalist Policy

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Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rates

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Arithmetic Density

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The average number of people per unit of land area.

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Baby Boomer

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People born from 1946 to 1964 during post world war II uptick in birth.

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Chain Migration

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Some people migrate to new places lead family,friends and others to move there.

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Dependency Ratio

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The number of dependence in the population that each 100 age people must support.

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Doubling Time

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The number of years it takes for population to double in size

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Guest Worker

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A person temporary permission to work in another country

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Epidemiological transition theory

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Seeks to explain how changes in health service and living standards effect patterns of disease.

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Forced Migration

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Migration caused by force out of ones control, such as disaster.

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Neo-Malthusians

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People today who subscribe Malthusians views of population

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Intervening opportunity

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A nearby attractive local where migrants may decide to settle instead of going to the instead destination.

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Malthusian

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A term derived from the name Thomas Robert Malthus an English economist and clerk to relate to Malthus theory.

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Megacity

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A city with more than 10 million residents

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Physiological density

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The average number of people per unit in area

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Population cluster

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heavily populated areas that illustrate unevenness in global population distribution

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Population pyramid

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A useful geographic device for comparing age and sex structure

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Refugees

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A person leaves a country based on prosecution of race.

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Transhumance

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A phenomenon headers and there livestock move seasonally between summer and winter pastures

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Total Fertility Rate

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Average number of children born per woman during her reproductive years.

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Zero Population growth

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When a country has the same number of births and deaths in given year

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