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Chapter 2 Flashcards

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1
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The amount of people in an area

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Population Density

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The spread of the people in an area

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Population distribution

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Land that is suitable for growing crops

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Arable land

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The amount of people that can be supported by the environment without damaging the environment

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Carrying Capacity

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The spread of urban development from an urban area into undeveloped land near a city

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Urban Sprawl

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Total number of live births in a year per 1,000 people alive

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Crude Birth Rate

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

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Crude Death Rate

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Average number of children a woman will have

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Total Fertility Rate

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Total number of deaths under one year of age in a year for every 1,000 live births

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Infant Mortality Rate

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Percentage by which a population grows in a year

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Natural Increase Rate

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The amount of time it takes for a population to double in size

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Doubling Time

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Activities that take raw resources to produce or manufacture products of greater value. Example: construction worker

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Secondary Sector

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Activities that provide a service for other individuals. Example: Lawyer

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Tertiary sector

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A time period where small farms were consolidated into larger farms. (Land went from communally owned to privately owned.)

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Enclosure Movement

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Income that a person has after taxes and other mandatory charges

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Disposable Income

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A branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.

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Epidemiology

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A disease that spread through a region or community

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Epidemic

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A disease that spreads across multiple regions, countries, or possibly the world.

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Pandemic

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A disease that stays in a particular area a does not spread through the entire region or community.

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Endemic

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A disease that continues to get worse over time

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Degenerative Diseases

21
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Policies that are created to help decrease a societies birth rate

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Anti-Natalist Policies

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Policies that are created to help increase a societies birth rate

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Pro-Natalist Policies

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(Number of Children 0-14 or
0-18) / (Number of Working-Age Population 15-64 or 18-
64) * 100

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Child Dependency Ratio

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(Number of Elderly 65 and older) / (Number of Working-Age Population 15-64 or
18-64) * 100

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Elderly Dependency Ratio

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(Number of Children 0-14 or
0-18 + Number of Elderly 65 and older) / (Number of
Working-Age Population 15-64 or 18-64) * 100

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Total Dependency Ratio

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Positive situations, conditions, events, and factors that make people want to move to a geographic location

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Pull Factors

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Negative situations, conditions, events, and factors that make people want to leave a geographic location

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Push Factors

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When an individual leaves a country or political territory

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Emigration

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When an individual enters a counti political territory

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Immigration

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Negative situations or events that hinder migration and end up preventing migrants from reaching their final destination

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Intervening Obstacles

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Positive situations or events that hinder migration and end up preventing migrants from reaching their final destination

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Intervening Opportunities

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An individual who has been forced to flee from their home in order to avoid the effects of armed conflicts, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, and/or natural/human made disasters, but has not crossed an internationally recognized state border

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Internally Displaced Person

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A migrant emigrates from their home country to another country but remains connected to their original country. (Often settles in an area with similar cultural and demographic characteristics)

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Transnational Migration

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A process in which a legal immigrant, who has become a naturalized citizen, sponsor a family member to immigrate to the country

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Chain Migration

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Migration that happens in stages (Migrants will make stops on the way to their final destination)

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STEP Migration

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A migrant who may temporarily migrate to a new country for work or for educational reasons

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Guest Worker

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Money an immigrant sends back to the family residing in their home country

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Remittance

38
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Movement of people from rural settlements to urban settlements

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Rural to Urban Migration

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Migration that involves a permanent move within the same region

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Intraregional Migration

40
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Migration that involves a permanent move from one region of a country to another region of the same country

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Interregional Migration

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Permanent move within a country

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Internal Migration

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