Populations

Question 1

Define natural increase rate (NIR):

Answer 1

The percentage by which the population grows in a year.

Question 2

What is a NIR

Answer 2

Natural increase rate

Question 3

Define doubling time

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Define life expectancy:

Answer 4

The average number of years an individual can be expected to live.

Question 5

Define crude birth rate (CBR)

Answer 5

The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in society.

Question 6

What is CBR ?

Answer 6

Crude Birth Rate

Question 7

Define crude death rate (CDR):

Answer 7

The total number of death in a year for every 1000 people alive in society.

Question 8

What is CDR ?

Answer 8

Crude death rate

Question 9

Define demography:

Answer 9

how people are distributed spatially by age gender occupation fertility health and so on.

Question 10

Define total fertility rate (TFR):

Answer 10

Measure the number of births in society .

Question 11

What is TFR ?

Answer 11

Total Fertility rate

Question 12

Demographic transition

Answer 12

The process of societies population from high crude birth and death rates low rate of natual inreases and higher total population.

Question 13

Industrial Revolution

Answer 13

involved major improvements in manufacturing goods delivering them to the market .

Question 14

Define sex ratio:

Answer 14

The number of males per 100 femlaes in the population .

Question 15

Define maternal mortality rate:

Answer 15

The annual number of female deaths per 100,000 live births from any cause related to or aggravate by pregnancy or its management.

Question 16

population pyramid:

Answer 16

Bar graph that displays the percentage of a place’s population for each age and gender.

Question 17

Define infant mortality rate (IMR):

Answer 17

Annual number of death of infants under the age of one compared to the totoal live birth.

Question 18

What is IMR ?

Answer 18

infant mortality rate

Question 19

Define elderly support ratio:

Answer 19

The number of working age people from 15-64 divided by the number of people 65 and older.

Question 20

Differentiate between mobility, migration, and circulation:

Answer 20

Migration is a permanent move to a new location. Migration is a form of mobility. Mobility is a more general term covering all types of movements from one palace to another.

Question 21

Differentiate between emigration and immigration:

Answer 21

Emigration is from a location and immigration is to a location.

Question 22

What is net migration?

Answer 22

The difference between the number of immigration and the number emigrants .

Question 23

What does a positive number mean and what is the specific term for this?

Answer 23

A positive number means when the number of immigrants exceeds the emigrants. Also the region has net immigration.

Question 24

What does a negative number mean and what is the specific term for this?

Answer 24

A negative number means the emigrant exceed the number of immigrants and the region has net out migration.

Question 25

Define international migration

Answer 25

A permanent move from one country to another.

Question 26

What is Wilbur Zelinsky’s Migration Transition Model?

Answer 26

Changes in society comparable to those in demographic transitions.

Question 27

What country has the most foreign-born residents?

Answer 27

The United States has more foreign born residents then any other country.

Question 28

Other countries/regions have higher rates of in-migration. Name three:

Answer 28

South west Asia Canada Australia

Question 29

Identify two of Ravenstein’s most important “laws of migration”.

Answer 29

Most migrants relocate a short distance and remain within the same country. Long distance migrants to other countries head for major centers of economic activity.

Question 30

What are the two types of international migration?

Answer 30

Voluntary migration the migrant has chosen to move usually for economic reasons though sometimes for environmental reasons. Forced migration migrant has been compelled to move by cultural or environmental factors.

Question 31

What are the two types of internal migration? What has been the main type of each in recent years?

Answer 31

interregional migration moving from one region of a country to a different region in the same country. The main type has been from rural to urban areas in search of jobs. intraregional migration movement within the same region. The main type has been within urban areas from older cities to newer cities. The main type that has been used in recent years interregional migration.

Question 32

Today, the main type of interregional migration is from rural to urban because ....

Answer 32

Most jobs, especially in services, are clustered in urban areas.

Question 33

Recent immigrants to the U.S. are not distributed evenly across the country, but rather half of immigrants settle in the following 4 states:

Answer 33

California New York Florida Texas

Question 34

Define population center:

Answer 34

Average location of everyone in the country.

Question 35

In recent years, interregional migration has slowed down because…

Answer 35

regional differences in employment. The severe recession of 08 and 09 discouraged people from migrating because of the limited job prospects in all regions.

Question 36

Which is more common: intraregional or interregional migration?

Answer 36

Intraregional migration is more common.

Question 37

How does intraregional migration differ between developed and developing countries?

Answer 37

Most intraregional migration is from rural areas to urban areas in developing countries and from cities to suburbs in developed countries.

Question 38

What are Ravenstein’s laws regarding the reasons people migrate?

Answer 38

The reasons why people migrate according to Ravenstein’s laws are because of economic reasons and cultural and environmental reasons.

Question 39

Identify and define the three groups of people who migrate for political reasons. Additionally, identify the UN statistics regarding how many people world-wide are in each group.

Answer 39

A refugee has been forced to migrate to another country to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or other disasters and cannot return for fear or persecution because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group or political opinion. Internationally displaced person has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border. asylum seekers someone who has migrated to another country in hope of being recognized as a refugee.

Question 40

Identify/give examples of environmental pull factors:

Answer 40

Induced people to move into a new location. Moving to places with a more favorable climate and lower risk of natural disasters.

Question 41

Identify/give examples of environmental push factors:

Answer 41

induced people to move out from their present location. Earthquakes,hurricanes, or flash floods

Question 42

Define floodplain:

Answer 42

is an area subject to flooding during a specific number of years based on the historical trends.

Question 43

(referring to floodplain) Examples (where?):

Answer 43

The Mekong River Delta in Vietnam is a case of a floodplain that nearly covers the entire country

Question 44

Define desertification:

Answer 44

Deterioration of land to a desert- like condition typically due to a human action.

Question 45

referring to desertification Examples (where?):

Answer 45

Sahel Region, Northern Africa

Question 46

Impact on migration:

Answer 46

The pressure for inhabitants to flee rises, with a high percentage migrating to cities, the agricultural frontier, or to other countries, primarily in the North.