Chapter 3 & 4 RG

Question 1

Demographic Transition Model (DTM)

Answer 1

A model that represents shifts in the growth of the world’s populations, based on population trends related to birth rate and death rate

Question 2

Doubling Time

Answer 2

The number of years it would take a population growing at a certain rate to double

Question 3

Land Degradation

Answer 3

Long-Term damage to the soil’s ability s to support life

Question 4

Agricultural Density

Answer 4

The total number of farmers per arable unit of land

Question 5

Arable Land

Answer 5

Land that can be used to grow crops

Question 6

Arithmetic Density

Answer 6

Total number of people per unit area of land

Question 7

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

Answer 7

The average number of children one women in a given country will have during her childbearing years (15-49)

Question 8

Population Distribution

Answer 8

Where people live in a geographic area

Question 9

Population Density

Answer 9

The number of people occupying a unit of land

Question 10

Mortality

Answer 10

Deaths as a component of population change

Question 11

Carrying Capacity

Answer 11

The Max population size and environment can sustain

Question 12

Dependency Ratio

Answer 12

Number of people in a dependent age group under 15 or over 65 divided by working age people

Question 13

Demographics

Answer 13

Data about the structures and characteristics of human populations

Question 14

Overpopulation

Answer 14

A term used to describe the condition in which population growth outstrips the resources needed to support life

Question 15

Anti-Natalist

Answer 15

Attitudes or policies that discourage childbearing to limit population growth

Question 16

Pro-Natalist

Answer 16

Attitudes or policies that encourage child birthing a means of spurring population growth.

Question 17

Brain Drain

Answer 17

The loss of trained or educated people to lure of work in another

Question 18

Distance Decay

Answer 18

Principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interactions they will have

Question 19

Immigration

Answer 19

Movement to a location

Question 20

Emigration

Answer 20

movement away from a location

Question 21

Intervening Obstacle

Answer 21

An occurrence that holds immigrants back

Question 22

Intervening Oppurtinity

Answer 22

An occurrence that causes immigrants to pause their journey by choice.

Question 23

Diffusion

Answer 23

The process by which a cultural trait spreads from one place to another over time