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APHUG Unit 2 Vocab. Flashcards

1
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Emigration

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People who move out of the country

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Environmental degradation

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Deterioration of the environment through depletion of natural resources

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Immigration

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People who move into a country

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Population distribution

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The pattern of human settlement

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Industrial Revolution

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Changes in technology that increased manufacturing productivity

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Agricultural density

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The number of farmers per unit area of farmland

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Arable land

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Land that is able to grow crops

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Arithmetic density

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The number of people per unit area of land

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Ecumene

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Portion of Earth with human settlement

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Intervening obstacle

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Barriers that make reaching a desired destination more difficult

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Intervening oppurtunity

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Environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration

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12
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Physiological density

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The number of people per unit area of arable land

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13
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Pull factor

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Migration due to negative conditions and circumstances

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14
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Push factor

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Migration due to positive conditions and circumstances

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15
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Carrying capacity

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The population that a region can support

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Overpopulation

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The growth of population beyond what an area can support

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Replacement-fertility level

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The total fertility rate at which a population replaces itself from one generation to the next

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Age/sex ratio

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The cumulative result of past trends of fertility, mortality and migration

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19
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Population pyramid

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Tool to study population with age and sex

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20
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Zero population growth

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The maintenance of a population at a constant level

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Crude birth rate

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The number of births per year for each 1,000 people

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Crude death rate

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The number of deaths per year for each 1,000 people

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Demography

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The study of statistics which illustrate the changing structure of human populations

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Doubling time

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The time it takes a population to double in size

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Fecundity

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The ability to reproduce in an abudance

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Fertility

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The number of children born to a woman

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Infant mortality rate

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The number of children that die before their first birthday

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Medical revolution

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Medical technology made in Europe and North America diffused to poorer countries

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Mortality

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Death on a large scale

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Rate of Natural increase

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The difference between the number of births and deaths in a year

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Total fertility rate

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The average number of children a woman has

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Demographic transition model

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Shows five stages a country goes through as it modernizes

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Epidemiologic transition

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Changing population patterns in terms of fertility, life expectancy, mortality, and leading causes of death

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Antinatalist policies

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Programs to decrease the number of births

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Pronatalist policies

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Programs to increase fertility rate

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Contracepetion

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Designed to prevent pregnancy

37
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Dependency ratio

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A value comparing the nonworking to the working parts of a population

38
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Graying population

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When a population becomes more dominated by older people

39
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Life expectancy

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The number of years the average person will live

40
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Asylum seeker

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A person who has left their country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another

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Chain migration

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When migrants follow each other to a particular destination

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Forced migration

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Movement of refugees and internally displaced people

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Guest worker

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A person with temporary permission to work in another country

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Internally displace person

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A person who is forced to flee their home, but remains on their country’s borders

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Refugee

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A person who leaves home to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster

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Step-migration

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A migration pattern in which rural inhabitants move closer to urban areas

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Transhumance

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The action of moving livestock from one grazing field to another

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Transnational migration

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The process of movement and settlement across country borders

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Voluntary migration

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One’s free will and initiave to migrate

50
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Brain drain

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The emigration of intelligent people from a country

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Net migration

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The difference between the number of immigrants to the number of emigrants

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Natural hazards

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Natural occuring physical phenomena

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Internal migration

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Migration within a country or state/provinces

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Unauthorizied immigrant

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People living in a country without proper citizenship

55
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Urban

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An area constituting a city or town

APHUG Unit 2 Vocab. (1 decks)

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