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Unit 2 Flashcards

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4 Physiological Density

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number of people per unit area of arable land

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5 Agriculture Density

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The number of farmers per unit of arable land

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18 Neo-Malthusian Theory

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people who believe that the population of the world is growing too quickly for the scale of agricultural production to keep up

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17 Overpopulation

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when a region a region has exceeded its carrying capacity

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14 Demographic transition model

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model of a country’s rate of natural increase changes as a country industrializes

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15 Epidemiological transition model

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how a country’s standard of living affects patterns of diseases

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16 Malthusian Theory

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world’s population was growing faster than the rate of food production, which would cause mass starvation

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10 Crude Death Rate/Mortality

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number of deaths per year per 1000 people

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9 Crude Birth Rate

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number of births occurring per year per 1000 people

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8 Population pyramid

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compares age and sex structure in a country

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3 Arithmetic Density

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average number of people per unit of land area

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2 Ecumene

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The portion of Earth’s surface with permanent human settlement

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1 Demography

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the statistic study of human population

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12 Rate of natural increase

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the difference between number of births and deaths in a year

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7 Sex ratio

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ratio of males:females

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11 Total fertility Rate

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average number of children born per women during their reproductive lifetime

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13 Doubling Time

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number of years it takes for a population to double

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6 Carrying capacity

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the number of people something can support and sustain

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Internally displaced person

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someone who stays even with persecution

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diaspora

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involuntary mass dispersions of a population from it’s home territory

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asylum seeker

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a person leaving because of a conflict, wanting better rights in a new country

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mobility transition model

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describes changes in migration through stages of development

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refugee

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people who leave because of persecution

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forced migration

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disaster/conflict cause people to leave

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rural-to-urban migration

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moving from a farm to a large city

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step migration

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multiple stages of migration

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chain migration

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leads family and friends to move to the same place

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internal migration

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migration within a country

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transhumance

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herders and livestock move between summer and winter pastures

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Great Migration

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African Americans moved from the South to the North

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Guest worker

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temporary permission to work in another country

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international migration

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migration across national borders

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voluntary migration

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migration that is done willingly

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intervening obstacles

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complications migrants would need to overcome in order to reach their destination

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pull factors

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appealing factors that draw migrants

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push factors

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make people want to move away

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brain drain

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places lose young educated skilled people through migration

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net migration

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in migrants vs. #out migrants

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emigration/immigration

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emi- leaving place of origin
immi- arriving at destination country

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migration/migrant

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permanent relocation

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dependency ratio

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% of people who are either too young or too old to work

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life expectancy

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of years a person is expected to live

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pronatalist

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encourages large families

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antinatalist

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encourages small families, dont want birth

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ravenstein’s laws of migration

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relationship between the distance and volume of migration between a source and destination

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