Chapter 2+3 Vocab Flashcards
The movement between regions
Interregional
The movement between continents
Intercontinental migration
The relocation decisions made solely to the people other than the immigrants
Forced migration
The relocation by person that would not have been the their first choice and example of this is refugees
Reluctant migration
To choose to migrate
Voluntary migration
Factors that causes you to migrate away from a place
Push factors
Factors that draw one to migrate to a place
Pull factors
The measure of an individual satisfaction with a residential location
Place utility
Migrating to a place using small less extreme location changes
Step migration
The migrant is part of an established and common origin migration to a prepared destination
Chain migration
Migrants that return to their place of origin
Counter/return migration
Birthrate minus the death rate suggesting the annual rate of population growth without considering net migration
Rate of natural increase
The time Required for any beginning total experiencing a compound growth to double in size
Doubling time
The frequency of occurrence of an event during a given time frame for a designated population usually per 1000 population
Rates
Population group sharing a common characteristics such as age gender or graduating class
Cohorts
Annual number of live births per 1000 population
Crude birth rate
Annual number of deaths per 1000 population in a given here
Crude death rate
Average number of children born to women during her childbearing years
Total fertility rate
A refinement of death rate to specify the ration of deaths of infants age one year or less per 1000 live births
Infant mortality rate
A graphic device that represents a population’s age and sex composition
Population pyramid
Effective supply and demand for places to interact
Complementary
Acceptable costs of exchange
Transferability
The closer place is more convenient
Intervening opportunity
All types of human movement
Mobility
Emotional attachment to a home
Territoriality