Population Flashcards
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Characteristics of a population
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- Size
- Composition (Ethnicity)
- Distribution (geo)
- Development
1
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Demography
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- Scientific study of people
2
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Population process
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- Fertility
- Mortality
- Migration (im, em, refu)
3
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Positive net migration
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- When there is more immigration than emigration
4
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Zero population growth
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- When the number of people in the population does not change (death=birth)
5
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Malthusian theory
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- The growth of population grows at a different rate to the growth of resources => collapse
6
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Preventive check vs positive check
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- Voluntary actions to limit the birth rate
- Involuntary actions/events that increase the death rate (war, famines)
7
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Demographic transition theory
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- A five stages of how a society population goes through stages of development
- Balance-Booms-Stable-Decline
8
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Fertility vs fecundity
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- Actual child-bearing of woman
- Potential childbearing of woman
9
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Factors affecting fertility
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- Demographic (birth vs death)
- Cultural
- Socio-economic
- Government policy
10
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Push vs pull factor in migration
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-Push are the negative factors
-Pull are the positive ones
11
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Sex ratio
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- Number of male/100 female
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