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Ch. 2/3: Population and Health/ Migration Flashcards

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Highly clustered/ concentrated regions in the world

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East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia

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Smaller concentrated/ emerging regions

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Eastern North America and West Africa

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3
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Permanent human settlement

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Ecumene

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4
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Sparsely populated by humans

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Non-ecumene

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5
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Total # of objects in an area

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Arithmetic density

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of people supported by a unit area of arable land

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Physiological Density

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The ratio of # of farmers to arable land

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Agricultural density

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Total # of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive

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Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

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Total # of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people

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Crude Death Rate (CDR)

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10
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% by which the population increases in a year

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Natural Increase Rate (NIR)

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11
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The amount of time needed for doubling the population

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Doubling Time

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12
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The average amount of children a woman has in her child-giving years (ages 15-49)

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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

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The # of people who are too young or too old to work

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Dependency Ratio

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A process with several stages and every country is in one of the stages

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Demographic Transition

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15
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  • High CBR
  • High CDR
  • No NIR
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Stage 1 (Low Growth)

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  • Declining CDR
  • High CBR
  • High NIR
  • e.g. Cape Verde
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Stage 2 (High Growth)

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  • Declining CDR
  • Declining CBR
  • Rising NIR
  • e.g. Chile
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Stage 3 (Declining Growth)

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  • Low CBR
  • Low CDR
  • No long-term NIR
  • e.g. Denmark
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Stage 4 (Low Growth)

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19
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Argued that the population of the world will grow more rapidly than the food supply

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Thomas Malthus

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Argued that recent population growth makes Malthus’ theory more frightening

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Neo-Malthusians

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21
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Focuses on distinctive health problems in each demographic transition/stage

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Epidemiologic Transition

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22
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  • Pestilence & Famine (e.g. Black Plague)
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Stage 1 (High CDR)

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  • Receding Pandemics (diseases that affect a high proportion of people e.g. cholera)
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Stage 2 (Rapidly declining CDR)

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  • Degenerative Disease (e.g. heart disease and cancer)
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Stage 3 (Moderately declining CDR)

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  • Delayed Degenerative Disease
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Stage 4 (Low but Increasing CDR)

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26
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  • Infectious and Parasite disease
  • Poverty
  • Increased connections
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Possible Stage 5 (Rising CDR)

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27
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Annual # of Deaths among infants under the age of 1 (per 1,000 infants)

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Infant Mortality Rate

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28
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The average # of years people are expected to live

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Life expectancy

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29
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Designed to increase birth rates (e.g. Russia and China)

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Pro-Natalist

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30
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Tries to prevent women from having babies to decrease the population

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Anti-Natalist

31
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Coming to permanently live in a foreign country

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Immigration

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Leaving a country to settle in another one

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Emigration

33
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  1. Most migrants relocate a short distance and remain within the same country
  2. Long-distance migrants from other countries head for major centers and economic activities
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Ravenstein’s two for distance in relation to migrants

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Move from one country to another

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International migration

35
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Moving within a country

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Internal migration

36
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Push factors for voluntary migration

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Economic improvement

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Push factor for forced migration

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Political or environmental factors

38
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Movement from one region of a country to another (e.g. opening of the American West)

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Interregional migration

39
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Movement within a region

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Intraregional migration

40
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Issued visas for immigrants who previously entered the U.S. without legal documents

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Reform and Control Act

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Average location of everyone in the country

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Population Center

42
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Population shift from rural to urban

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Urbanization

43
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Movement from urban to suburb areas

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Suburbanization

44
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Urban to rural areas

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Counterurbanization

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Induces people to move out of their present location (e.g. slavery and war)

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Push factors

46
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Induces people to move into a new country (e.g. places that help refugees)

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Pull factors

47
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A person with permission to work in another country

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Guest worker

48
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An environmental or political feature that hinders migration

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Intervening Obstacle

49
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Stopped unrestricted immigration in the U.S.

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Quota Act and the National Origins Act

50
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Got rid of the Quota laws and helped immigrants visit family

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Immigration Act of 1965

51
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Large-scale emigration of talented people (e.g. talented doctors and scientists)

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Brain Drain

52
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Migration because relatives or members of the same nationality moved there

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Chain Migration

53
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Immigrants without proper documentation

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Undocumented Immigrants

54
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  • Expense
  • National Identity
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Fears of Migration

55
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  • Asylum seekers (e.g. torture, death, penalty)
  • Labor migration (hope for a better economy & work opportunities)
  • Illegal migration (entering a country without a visa)
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Type of migration

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Advantages of migration

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  • Economic development
  • Meet employment needs
57
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______ holds the most migrants today (42.8 million). _______ has the most people leaving its country

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U.S.A. and Mexico

58
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Agriculture and extractive activities; depended on by developing countries

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Primary sector

59
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Processing activities manufacturing, construction, and power production; many developing nations support secondary activities with lower labor costs than developed countries

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Secondary sector

60
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Any developed countries economies are dominated by tertiary sector jobs; service to other buildings

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Tertiary sector

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Informational activities; advanced technologies and intelligence

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Quaternary sector

62
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A new theoretical sector within the quaternary sector of high management level jobs; jobs at are at government level

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Quinary sector

63
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of live births / estimated mid-year population (* 1,000)

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Birth rate formula

64
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of live births / # of deaths / Mid-year population (*1,000)

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Rate of Natural Increase formula

65
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of males to females in a population

66
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The max population that the environment can sustain

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Carrying Capacity

67
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Make it to land, they get to stay. If caught in the water, they are sent back to Cuba

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Wet Foot/Dry Foot Policy

68
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Human population becoming too large to be sustained by its environment

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Overpopulation

69
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An epidemic of infectious diseases across the globe (e.g. COVID-19)

70
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Importance : encourages free trade with Mexico, U.S., and Canada

Not important: Hurt labor prospects of small farmers and created a loss in jobs

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NAFTA/USMCA

71
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Poor Health care, High death rate, High birth rate, High Infant Mortality rate, kids = economic assets

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Less Developed/Developing Countries (LDC)

72
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Good Health care, education , and job opportunities. Low CBR and CDR. High Literacy Rate

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More Developed Countries (MDC)

73
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Improvement in health care, sanitation, and life expextancy

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Newly Industrialised Countries (NIC)

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