Chapter 2 AP Human Vocab Flashcards
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land
Agricultural density
Describing attitudes and policies that discourage childbearing as a means of limiting population growth
Antinalist
Total number of people per land: also called crude density
Arithmetic
The right to protection in a country
Asylum
The loss of trained or educated people to lure of work in another-often richer- country
Brain Drain
The maximum population size an environment can sustain
Carrying Capacity
Type of migration in which people move to a location because other from their community have previously migrated there
Chain Migration
Type of migration in which migrant workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs
Circular Migration
The number of births in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population
Crude Birth Rate(CBR)
The number of deaths in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population
Crude Death Rates(CDR)
A model that represents shifts in the growth of the world´s populations based on population trends related to birth rates & death rates
Demographic Transition Model (DTM)
The number of people in a dependent age group ( under age 15 or age 65+) divided by the number of people n the working age group (15-64) multiplied by 100
Dependency Ratio
Stating that the farther one thing is from another the less interationg the two things will have
Distance Decay
The number of years in which a population growing at a certain rate would double
Doubling Times
Movement away from a location
Emigration
A model tat describes change in fertility, morality, life expectancy, and population age distribution,largely as a result of changes in cause of death
ETM
Type of migration in which people are compelled to move by economic, political,environmental, or cultural factors
Forced Migration
Concept that states the longer the journey is the most it will cost and time
Friction of Distance
A model that predicts the intetaction between 2 or more places
Gravity Model
A migrant who travels to a new country as a temporary labor
Guest Workers
The permanent movement of people from one place to another
Human Migration
The recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means(Kidnapping)
Human Trafficking
Movement to a location
Immigration
Number of deaths of children under the age of 1 per 1,000 live births
Infant Mortality Rate(IMR)
Movement within a countries border
Internal Migration
Person who is forced to flee their home but remains in the countries borders
Internally Displaced Person
Movement from one region of the country to another
Interregional Migration
The average number of years a person is expected to live
Life Expectancy
An occurrence that holds migrants back
Intervening Obstacle
An occurrence that causes migrants to pause there journey by choice
Intervening Opportunity
The theory related to the idea that population growth is unsustainable and that the future population cannot be supported by Earth´s resources
Neo-Malthusian
The difference between the number of emigrants and immigrant in a location
Net Migration
Movement within one region of the country
Intraregional Migration
The total number of people per unit of arable land
Physiological Density
Where people live in a geographic area
Population Distribution
The number of people occupying a unit of land
Population Density
A graph that shows the age-sex distribution of a given population
Population Pyramid
Describing attitudes or policies that encourage childbearing as a means of spurring population growth.
Pronatalist
A Negative cause that compels someone to leave a location
Push Factor
A positive cause that attracts someone to a new location
Pull Factor
Limit on number of immigrants allowed in the country each year
Quotas
Rate at which a population grows as a result of the difference between the Crude BR and Crude DR
RNI(Rate of National Increase)
A person forced to leave country for of prosecution
Refugee
The spread of culture traits through the movement of people
Relocation Diffusion
Money earned by emigrant abroad and sent back to their home country
Remittances
The proportion of males to females in a populaton
Sex Ratio
Series of smaller moves to get to the ultimate destination
Step Migration
The average number of children one woman in a given country or region will have during her childbearing years
(TFR) Total Fertility RAte
International migration in which people retain strong cultural, emotional,and financial ties with their countries or regions
Transnational Migration
Which people make the choice to move to a new place
Voluntary Migration
