Chapter 3-4

Question 1

population pyramid

Answer 1

a bar graph in pyramid form showing the age and sex composition of a population usually a national one

Question 2

crude death rate

Answer 2

(CDR) SEE DEATH RATE

Question 3

demographic equation

Answer 3

the formula that calculates population change. the increase (or decrease) in population is births minus deaths plus (or minus) net migration

Question 4

doubling time

Answer 4

is the period in size or value. it is applied to population growth, inflation, resource extraction, consumption of goods

Question 5

transferability

Answer 5

acceptable costs of a spatial exchange, the cost of moving a commodity relative to the ability of the commodity to bear that cost.

Question 6

migration

Answer 6

the permanent relocation of an individual or a group to a new, usually distant, place of residence and employment.

Question 7

chain migration

Answer 7

it refers to the social process by which immigrants from a particular town follow others from that ton to a particular city or neighborhood, whether in an immigrant receiving country or in a new, usually urban, location in the home country.

Question 8

forced migration

Answer 8

refers to the correct movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region. it connotes violent coercion, and is used interchangeably with the terms “displacements”

Question 9

arithmetic density

Answer 9

the total number of objects in an area

Question 10

cohorts

Answer 10

a population group unified by specific common characteristics such as age subsequently treated as statistics

Question 11

carrying capacity

Answer 11

a biological species in an environment is the maximum population size

Question 12

demography

Answer 12

the scientific study of population with a particular emphasis upon quantitative aspects

Question 13

population density

Answer 13

is the measurement of population per unit area or unit volume.

Question 14

mortality

Answer 14

is the condition of being mortal, or susceptible to death

Question 15

Thomas Robert (TR) Malthus

Answer 15

was an English scholar, influential in political economy and demography

Question 16

territoriality

Answer 16

individual or a group attempt to identify and establish control over a clearly defined territory consider partially or wholly in exclusive

Question 17

spatial interaction

Answer 17

the movement of people, goods, information between different places an indication of independence between different geographic locations or areas.

Question 18

space time prism

Answer 18

a diagram of the volume of space and the length of time within which our activities are confined by constraints of our bodily needs and the means of mobility at our command.

Question 19

pull factors

Answer 19

characteristics of a locale that act as a attractive forces, drawing migrations from other regions.

Question 20

push factors

Answer 20

unfavorable characteristics of a locale that contributes to the dissatisfaction of its resident and impel their emigration.

Question 21

place perception

Answer 21

the acquisition of information about a place or thing through sensory means; the subjective organization and interpretation of acquired information in light of cultural attitudes and individual preferences or experiences.

Question 22

personal space

Answer 22

An invisible, usually irregular area around a person into which he r she does not willingly admit others. The sense and extent) of personal space is a situational and cultural variable.

Question 23

Total fertility rate

Answer 23

the average number of children that would be born to each woman if during her childbearing years she bore children at the current year’s rate for women that age.

Question 24

replacement level

Answer 24

the number of children per woan that will supply just enough births to replace parents and compensate for early deaths, with no allowance for migration effect; usually calculated at between 2.1 and 2.5 children.

Question 25

population geography

Answer 25

A division of human geography concerned with spatial variations in distribution, composition, growth and movements of population and the relationship of those concerns with the geographic character of areas.

Question 26

zero population growth

Answer 26

a term suggesting a population in equilibrium, fully stable in numbers of births (plus immigration) equaling deaths (plus emigration).

Question 27

arable land

Answer 27

the land that is or can be cultivated.

Question 28

infant mortality

Answer 28

a refinement of death rate to specify the ratio of deaths of infants age 1 year or less per 1000 live births.

Question 29

intervening opportunity

Answer 29

the concept that closer opportunities will materially reduce the attractiveness of interaction with more distant even slightly better alternatives; a closer alternative source of supply between a demand point and the original source of supply.

Question 30

critical distance

Answer 30

the distance beyond which cost effort and/or means play a determining role in the willingness of people to travel.

Question 31

gravity model

Answer 31

a mathematical prediction of the interaction between two bodies as a function of their size and the distance separating them.

Question 32

channelized migration

Answer 32

the tendency for migration to flow between areas that are socially and economically allied by past migration patterns by economic and trade connections or some other affinity.

Question 33

activity space

Answer 33

the area in which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity.

Question 34

printing press

Answer 34

machine that you manually place letters to make words then ink the letters and roll paper over the letters and you could read it like a news paper.

Question 35

radio

Answer 35

type of communication that uses air waves that travel and could be heard many miles away.

Question 36

email

Answer 36

modern form of communication using computers.

Question 37

town crier

Answer 37

someone that would announce local news to the people.