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U2 Vocab Flashcards

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1
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Carrying capacity

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Most people area can support

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Pop pyramid

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Graph showing age-sex distribution

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Maternal mortality rate

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Number of dead mothers for every thousand births

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Natural increase

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Pop growth in year;
CBR - CDR = natural increase

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Epidemiological transition model

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Pop related to changing patterns of mortality + causes, fertility, and life expectancy

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Malthus

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Person who thought pop grew faster than food production, and we’d all be doomed

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Pronatalist

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Policy that encourages birth

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Birth rate

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Number of births for every 1,000 people

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Dependency ratio

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Percentage of people too young or old to work

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Agricultural density

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Ratio of # of farmers to to amount of arable land

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Pop distribution

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Pattern of where people live

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Push factor

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Something that pushes someone away from place

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Intervening opportunity

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Something that changes the course of someone’s original pilgrimage destination

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Forced migration

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People forced to leave their home

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Internally displaced persons

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People forced to migrate but don’t cross international borders; similar reasons to refugees

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Asylum seeker

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Someone who migrates to another country with the hopes of being recognized as a refugee

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Transhumance

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Seasonal migration of livestock between high & lowlands

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Internal

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Type of migration while staying in the country

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Chain

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Migration type when people move because they’re following friends or family

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Baby bust

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Fertility rates dropped in US (‘60s & ’70s)

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Demography

A

Study of pop characteristics

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Brain drain

A

Lot of skilled workers leave country for better opportunities

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Net migration

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Difference between immigrants & emigrants in place

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Remittances

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Money sent by migrants to family & friends in different country

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Zero pop growth

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Crude birth rate = crude death rate

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One child policy

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Pop policy enforced by Chinese gov. (1979 - 2015)

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Arithmetic density

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Calculation of total number of people living in area

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Physiological density

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Calculation of people per unit of arable land

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Total fertility rate

A

Average number of children born to each woman in her life

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Doubling time

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Predicted time for pop to increase twofold

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Antinatalist

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Policy that discourages birth

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Ravenstein

A

German geographer that established 11 Laws of Migration

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Life expectancy

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average number of years person expected to live

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Death rate

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Number of deaths per 1,000 people

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Pull factor

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Something that attracts people to a place

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Voluntary

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Migration based on personal choice

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Refugee

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Person forced to live in another country

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Step

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Migration w/ multiple stages

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Guest worker

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Immigrant w/ short-term work visa

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Baby boom

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Sharp increase in US births after WW2

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Emigrate

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Moving out of an area

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Overpopulation

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Population exceeds carrying capacity

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Quota

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limit on number of annual immigrants

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Census

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Survey that counts pop of area & records info about characteristics

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