Unit 2

Question 1

Patterns Of Population Distribution

Answer 1

Patterns that attract humans into settling there

Question 2

Population Density

Answer 2

Amount of people in an area compared to another

Question 3

Arithmetic

Answer 3

People divided by land area in order to calculate density

Question 4

Physiological

Answer 4

People divided by farm land in order to calculate the amount of people a country can feed

Question 5

Agricultural

Answer 5

Farmers divided by farm land in order to calculate a country’s wealth

Question 6

Carrying Capacity

Answer 6

The maximum amount of people an area can support

Question 7

Age Structure

Answer 7

Distribution of individuals across different age groups

Question 8

Sex Ratio

Answer 8

Percentage of male and percentage of females that make up the population

Question 9

Population Pyramids

Answer 9

Models that depict the common population age groups separated by sexual orientation in order to predict population growth/decline

Question 10

Fertility

Answer 10

Birth rate

Question 11

Mortality

Answer 11

Death rate

Question 12

Migration

Answer 12

Movement of an individual or group from place to place

Question 13

Rate Of Natural Increase

Answer 13

Crude Birth Rate subtracted by Crude Death Rate and divided by 10 to calculate the rate of population growth naturally

Question 14

Population-Doubling Time

Answer 14

The amount of time it will take for a population to double

Question 15

Demographic Transition Model

Answer 15

Model used to predict a populations decline or growth; Births, Deaths, and NIR

Question 16

Epidemiological Transition

Answer 16

Predictable stages in disease and life expectancy as countries develop

Question 17

Malthusian Theory

Answer 17

The population is increasing exponentially while food increases at a constant rate

Question 18

Boserup’s Model

Answer 18

Food output depends on population growth

Question 19

Neo-Malthusians

Answer 19

The thought that population growth and overconsumption will lead to an ecological collapse

Question 20

Population Policies

Answer 20

Policies that spread propaganda that aid the government in their end goals in their country

Question 21

Pronatalist

Answer 21

Government spread propaganda that promotes sex for babies

Question 22

Antinatalist

Answer 22

Government spread propaganda to discourage reproduction

Question 23

Contraception

Answer 23

Barriers that prevent fertilization during intercourse

Question 24

Fertility Rate

Answer 24

Amount of babies born per woman

Question 25

Ravenstein’s Laws Of Migration

Answer 25

Common patterns and trends relating to migration; Short Distance is more-likely, males are more likely to migrate, generates counter-migration, steps, rural-to-urban

Question 26

Population Aging

Answer 26

The aging got a population

Question 27

Death Rate

Answer 27

Rate in which people die in an area

Question 28

Birth Rate

Answer 28

Rate in which babies are born in an area

Question 29

Dependency Ratio

Answer 29

Ratio of people that are out of the workforce age; under 15 and or above 65

Question 30

Push Factors

Answer 30

Negative circumstances that discourages people from migrating into that area

Question 31

Pull Factors

Answer 31

Positive circumstances that persuade people into moving to that area

Question 32

Intervening Opportunities

Answer 32

Opportunities that persuade people to settle earlier than the determined location

Question 33

Intervening Obstacles

Answer 33

Obstacles that forcefully prevent migrants from progressing on their journey to a location (mountains)

Question 34

Forced Migration

Answer 34

People forced to move to another country out of fear for survival

Question 35

Slavery

Answer 35

Forced labor without pay

Question 36

Refugees

Answer 36

Displaced people who found sanctuary in another area from their endangered home location

Question 37

Internally Displaced Persons

Answer 37

People forced to leave their homes but not countries

Question 38

Voluntary Migration

Answer 38

Voluntary movement from place to place

Question 39

Asylum Seekers

Answer 39

People in the process of being classified as refugees

Question 40

Transnational Migration

Answer 40

Migration from one country to another

Question 41

Internal Migration

Answer 41

Migration within country borders

Question 42

Transhumance Migration

Answer 42

Nomadic Herders

Question 43

Chain Migration

Answer 43

Migrants persuaded into moving by others

Question 44

Step Migration

Answer 44

Steps of the process of migrating

Question 45

Guest Worker Migration

Answer 45

Migrants in search for jobs or migrants moved for work