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Population and migration Flashcards

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1
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What is population density

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A measurement of population per area

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What is densely populated area

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A lot of people live there

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What is a sparsely populated area?

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Not many people live here

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What is the natural increase

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When birth rate is higher than the death rate

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What is natural decrease?

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When the death rate is higher than the birth rate

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Lets say the UK birth rate is (12) and the death rate is (9) how do you solve the natural increase

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12-9=3

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What is birth rate

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The total number of live births per 1000 of the population per year

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What is death rate?

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Is the total number of deaths per 1000 of the population per year

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What does LEDC mean

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Less economically developed country

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10
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What does MEDC mean

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more economically developed country

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What is migration

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The permanent or semi permanent movement of people from one place to another

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What does immigrants mean?

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Someone who arrives in a country to live and work permanently

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What does Emigrant mean

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Someone who leaves a country and moves to another country to live and work permanently

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Whats the difference between immigrants and Emigrants

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(Emigrant) E = exit

(Immigrant) I= inter

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What’s a push factor?

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The reason why people want to leave a place

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What’s a pull factor

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The reasons why people want you To move to a place

17
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What is rural to urban migration?

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moving From the countryside to the town/city

18
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What is urban to Rural migration

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Leaving the cities for the peace of the countryside

19
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What are refugees?

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Someone who has been forced to leave their home country and move to another, and has applied for granted refugee status by their destination

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What are asylum seekers

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Someone who has left their home country, seeking asylum in another, but was not yet been granted refugee status

21
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What are economic migrants

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Someone who Leaves the country due to poor economic conditions, and to another search of work to improve their quality of life

22
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Give 2 push and pull factors

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Push: war and no jobs

Pull: better pay education

23
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If the population pyramid has a narrow base, that shows that the birth rate is

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Low

24
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If the population pyramid is Wide in the middle. This means that the death rate is

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Low

25
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If the population pyramid is Quite wide at the top because

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There is a longer life expectancy

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