Test 1 (Migration)

Question 1

What is exponential growth?

Answer 1

Increasing or accelerating rate of growth

Question 2

What is crude birth rate?

Answer 2

Number of births per 1,000 people in a population

Question 3

What is crude death rate?

Answer 3

Number of deaths per 1,000 people in a population

Question 4

What is annual growth rate?

Answer 4

Found by subtracting crude death rate by the crude birth rate and expressed as a percentage

Question 5

What is general fertility rate?

Answer 5

Number of births per 1,000 women between the ages of 15-49

Question 6

What is age specific birth rate?

Answer 6

Number of births per 1,000 women of any specific year group

Question 7

What is standardized birth rate?

Answer 7

A birth rate for a region on the basis that its age composition is the same as for the whole country

Question 8

What is total fertility rate?

Answer 8

The average number of births per 1,000 women of childbearing age

Question 9

What is infant mortality rate?

Answer 9

The number of deaths of children less than 1-year-old per 1,000 live births

Question 10

What is child mortality rate?

Answer 10

The number of deaths in children under the age of 5 per 1,000 children

Question 11

What is life expectancy?

Answer 11

Average number of years that a person can be expected to live from birth

Question 12

What are population pyramids?

Answer 12

They show us a lot about the age, and gender structure of a population and the population growth. They help in finding how many services and facilities will be needed in the future

Question 13

What is older dependency ratio?

Answer 13

Number of people aged 65 and over for every 100 people aged 20-64.

Measures the working population and the dependent population.

The formula is: Population aged <15 + population >64 (the dependents) over Population aged 16-64 (the economically active)

Question 14

What is DEADER?

Answer 14

• Details
• Examples
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Evaluation
• Recommendations

Question 15

What is family planning?

Answer 15

Attempts to limit family size

Question 16

What is migration?

Answer 16

Movement of people, involving a change of residence. Usually for an extended period of time (more than a year)

Question 17

What are some types of migration?

Answer 17

• Internal (within country)
• External (international)
• Voluntary
• Forced

Question 18

What are remittances?

Answer 18

Transfer of money or goods from foreign workers to their hime countries, usually to their families

Question 19

What is brain drain?

Answer 19

The great minds migrate to other countries, usually rich.

Question 20

What is a refugee?

Answer 20

Person fleeing home country to escape danger

Question 21

What is an asylum seeker?

Answer 21

People who seek refugee status in another country

Question 22

What is an economic migrant?

Answer 22

A person seeking job opportunities

Question 23

What is an Internally Displaced Person (IDP)?

Answer 23

People who flee their homes but remain in the country

Question 24

What is tenure?

Answer 24

The way in which the rights, restrictions and responsibilities that people have with respect to land (and property) are held

Question 25

What is pro-natalist?

Answer 25

The country encourages the population to have children to increase population

Question 26

What is anti-natalist?

Answer 26

The country wants to limit or decrease population. They can do this using contraceptives, sterilisation and other measures