Unit 2

Question 1

The ratio of the number of
farmers to the total amount of
land suitable for agriculture.

Answer 1

Agricultural Density

Question 2

The total number of people
divided by the total land area.

Answer 2

Arithmetic Density

Question 3

The portion of Earth’s surface
occupied by permanent human
settlement.

Answer 3

Ecumene

Question 4

The number of people per unit of
area of arable land, which is land
suitable for agriculture.

Answer 4

Physiological Density

Question 5

The process of change in a society’s
population from a condition of high
crude birth and death rates and low
rate of natural increase to a
condition of low crude birth and
death rates, low rate of natural
increase, and a higher total
population.

Answer 5

Demographic Transition

Question 6

Medical technology invented in
Europe and North America that is
diffused to the poorer countries of
Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
Improved medical practices have
eliminated many of the traditional
causes of death in poorer countries
and enabled more people to live
longer and healthier lives.

Answer 6

Medical Revolution

Question 7

A decline of the total fertility rate to
the point where the natural increase
rate equals zero.

Answer 7

Zero Population Growth
(ZPG)

Question 8

The number of people under the age
of 15 and over age 64 compared to
the number of people active in the
labor force

Answer 8

Dependency Ratio

Question 9

The number of working-age people
(ages 15-64) divided by the number
of persons 65 and older.

Answer 9

Elderly Support Ratio

Question 10

Distinctive causes of death in each
stage of the demographic transition

Answer 10

Epidemiologic Transition

Question 11

Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that are prevalent among a population at a special time and are produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality

Answer 11

Epidemiology

Question 12

A bar graph representing the
distribution of population by age and sex.

Answer 12

Population Pyramid

Question 13

The process of changes in
culture that result from
the meeting of two
groups, each of which
retains distinct culture
features.

Answer 13

Acculturation

Question 14

The process by which a
group’s cultural features
are altered to resemble
those of another dominant
group.

Answer 14

Assimilation

Question 15

a refugee who is seeking
asylum or safety in
another country after
escaping their home
country for fear of their
lives

Answer 15

Asylum Seeker

Question 16

Migration of people to a
specific location because
relatives or members of
the same nationality
previously migrated there

Answer 16

Chain migration

Question 17

The temporary movement
of a migrant worker
between home and host
countries to seek
employment

Answer 17

Circular migration

Question 18

Short-term, repetitive, or
cyclical movements that
recur on a regular basis

Answer 18

Circulation

Question 19

Migration from a location

Answer 19

Emigration

Question 20

Permanent movement
compelled usually by
cultural factors.

Answer 20

Forced migration

Question 21

Workers who migrate to
the more developed
countries of Northern and
Western Europe, usually
from Southern and Eastern
Europe or from North
Africa, in search of higher-
paying jobs.

Answer 21

Guest workers

Question 22

Migration to a new
location

Answer 22

Immigration

Question 23

Someone who has been
forced to migrate for
similar political reasons as
a refugee but has not
migrated across an
international border.

Answer 23

Internally Displaced
Person (IDP)

Question 24

Permanent movement
from one region of a
country to another

Answer 24

Interregional migration

Question 25

An environmental or
cultural feature of the
landscape that hinders
migration

Answer 25

Intervening obstacle

Question 26

Permanent movement
within one region of a
country.

Answer 26

Intraregional migration

Question 27

Change in the migration
pattern in a society that
results from
industrialization,
population growth, and
other social and economic
changes that also produce
the demographic
transition.

Answer 27

Migration transition

Question 28

All types of movement
from one location to
another.

Answer 28

Mobility

Question 29

Factor that induces people
to move to a new location

Answer 29

Pull factor

Question 30

Factor that induces people
to leave old residences

Answer 30

Push factor

Question 31

In reference to migration,
laws that place maximum
limits on the number of
people who can immigrate
to a country each year.

Answer 31

Quotas