unit 2 Flashcards
What is Population Density?
Measures the total population of a country relative to its land size.
What is Arithmetic Density?
The calculation of how many people are living in a specific area of land.
What is Physiological Density?
Number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.
What is Agricultural Density?
The number of farmers per unit area of arable land.
What is Carrying Capacity?
The max amount of something there could be.
What is Population Composition?
The number of men and women and their age in a country.
What is a Population Pyramid?
Represents the breakdown of the population by gender and age at a given point in time.
What are the stages of the Demographic Transition Model?
1st - stable NIR; 2nd - rapid growth; 3rd - moderate growth; 4th - stable; 5th - rapid decrease.
What is the Epidemiological Transition Model?
Same as the demographic transition model.
What is the Malthusian Theory?
Food is linear growth while human population is exponential, leading to potential food shortages.
What is the Neo-Malthusian Theory?
Updates Malthusian Theory with new technology and questions sustainability.
What is the One Child Policy?
A policy to force people to only have one child.
What is Pro Natalist?
Government encouraging population growth with incentives.
What is Anti Natalist?
Belief that it is morally wrong to have children or that people should be discouraged from having children.
What is Total Fertility Rate?
Average number of children born to women.
What is Crude Birth Rate?
Births per 1,000 population.
What is Life Expectancy?
The number of years a person may expect to remain alive.
What are Degenerative Diseases?
Diseases associated with longevity and old age, such as heart disease.
What are Pensions?
Retirement money given from the government.
What is Social Security?
Government program that helps a person save money for retirement.
What is the Old-Age Dependency Ratio?
The relationship between the number of people over 65 and the working age (15-64).
What is Universal Healthcare?
Healthcare system that provides health services to all citizens.
What is Urban?
City.
What is Rural?
Farmland.
What are Intervening Opportunities?
Things that prevent migrants from getting to their destination.
What are Push Factors?
Factors that may draw someone away from a place.
What are Pull Factors?
Factors that may attract someone towards a place.
What is Voluntary Migration?
People leaving their home voluntarily due to job opportunities.
What is Involuntary/Forced Migration?
People forced out of their homeland due to natural disasters or wars.
What is Internal Migration?
Migrants who move within the borders of their country.
What is Chain Migration?
Migrants from a particular place follow others to a destination.
What is Step Migration?
Migration that occurs in stages.
What are Guest Workers?
Workers that go from LDC to MDC to help the economy grow.
What is Asylum?
The right to protection in the first country in which refugees arrive.
What are Remittances?
Money sent back by migrants to their home country.
What is a Receiving Country?
Country receiving the refugee or migrant.
What is a Refugee?
A person with a well-founded fear of persecution.
What is Overpopulation?
Population exceeds food supply.
