Unit 2 Flashcards
4 Physiological Density
number of people per unit area of arable land
5 Agriculture Density
The number of farmers per unit of arable land
18 Neo-Malthusian Theory
people who believe that the population of the world is growing too quickly for the scale of agricultural production to keep up
17 Overpopulation
when a region a region has exceeded its carrying capacity
14 Demographic transition model
model of a country’s rate of natural increase changes as a country industrializes
15 Epidemiological transition model
how a country’s standard of living affects patterns of diseases
16 Malthusian Theory
world’s population was growing faster than the rate of food production, which would cause mass starvation
10 Crude Death Rate/Mortality
number of deaths per year per 1000 people
9 Crude Birth Rate
number of births occurring per year per 1000 people
8 Population pyramid
compares age and sex structure in a country
3 Arithmetic Density
average number of people per unit of land area
2 Ecumene
The portion of Earth’s surface with permanent human settlement
1 Demography
the statistic study of human population
12 Rate of natural increase
the difference between number of births and deaths in a year
7 Sex ratio
ratio of males:females
11 Total fertility Rate
average number of children born per women during their reproductive lifetime
13 Doubling Time
number of years it takes for a population to double
6 Carrying capacity
the number of people something can support and sustain
Internally displaced person
someone who stays even with persecution
diaspora
involuntary mass dispersions of a population from it’s home territory
asylum seeker
a person leaving because of a conflict, wanting better rights in a new country
mobility transition model
describes changes in migration through stages of development
refugee
people who leave because of persecution
forced migration
disaster/conflict cause people to leave
rural-to-urban migration
moving from a farm to a large city
step migration
multiple stages of migration
chain migration
leads family and friends to move to the same place
internal migration
migration within a country
transhumance
herders and livestock move between summer and winter pastures
Great Migration
African Americans moved from the South to the North
Guest worker
temporary permission to work in another country
international migration
migration across national borders
voluntary migration
migration that is done willingly
intervening obstacles
complications migrants would need to overcome in order to reach their destination
pull factors
appealing factors that draw migrants
push factors
make people want to move away
brain drain
places lose young educated skilled people through migration
net migration
in migrants vs. #out migrants
emigration/immigration
emi- leaving place of origin
immi- arriving at destination country
migration/migrant
permanent relocation
dependency ratio
% of people who are either too young or too old to work
life expectancy
of years a person is expected to live
pronatalist
encourages large families
antinatalist
encourages small families, dont want birth
ravenstein’s laws of migration
relationship between the distance and volume of migration between a source and destination
