Finals Vocab

Question 1

Agricultural Density

Answer 1

The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of arable land.

Question 2

Crude Birth Rate

Answer 2

The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.

Question 3

Crude Death Rate

Answer 3

The total number of live deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in society.

Question 4

Doubling Time

Answer 4

The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant natural increase rate.

Question 5

Epidemiology

Answer 5

The branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and ocntrol of diseases that are prevalent among a population at a certain time and are produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality.

Question 6

Life Expectancy

Answer 6

The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions.

Question 7

Natural Increase Rate

Answer 7

The percentage growth of a population in a year computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.

Question 8

Overpopulation

Answer 8

A situation in which the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support them at a decent standard of living.

Question 9

Pandemic

Answer 9

Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.

Question 10

Population Pyramid

Answer 10

A bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex.

Question 11

Asylum Seeker

Answer 11

Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee.

Question 12

Brain Drain

Answer 12

Large-scale emigration by talented people.

Question 12

Circular Migration

Answer 12

The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment.

Question 12

Emigration

Answer 12

Migration from a location.

Question 12

Guest Worker

Answer 12

A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job.

Question 12

Immigration

Answer 12

Migration to a new location

Question 12

Migration

Answer 12

A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.

Question 13

Pull Factor

Answer 13

A factor that induces people to move to a new location.

Question 14

Push Factor

Answer 14

A factor that induces people to leave old locations.

Question 15

Quota

Answer 15

In reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.

Question 16

Refugee

Answer 16

People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.

Question 17

Unauthorized Immigrant

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A person who enters a country without proper documents to do so.

Question 18

Culture

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The body of material possessions, customary beliefs and social norms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

Question 19

Custom

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The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.

Question 20

Folk Culture

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Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

Question 21

Habit

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A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.

Question 22

Popular Culture

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Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits and seeks similar material.

Question 23

Taboo

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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

Question 24

Apartheid

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Laws(no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.

Question 25

Ethnic Cleansing

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A purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.

Question 26

Ethnicity

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Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.

Question 27

Ethnophobia

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Fear of people of a particular ethnicity.

Question 28

Genocide

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The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence.

Question 29

Nationalism

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Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.

Question 30

Nationality

Answer 30

Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country.

Question 31

Race

Answer 31

Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physical trait such as skin color.

Question 32

Triangular Slave Trade

Answer 32

A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported enslaved people from Africa to Caribbean island, molasses from teh Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.

Question 33

Xenophobia

Answer 33

Fear of people who are from other countries.