unit 2

Question 1

What is Population Density?

Answer 1

Measures the total population of a country relative to its land size.

Question 2

What is Arithmetic Density?

Answer 2

The calculation of how many people are living in a specific area of land.

Question 3

What is Physiological Density?

Answer 3

Number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.

Question 4

What is Agricultural Density?

Answer 4

The number of farmers per unit area of arable land.

Question 5

What is Carrying Capacity?

Answer 5

The max amount of something there could be.

Question 6

What is Population Composition?

Answer 6

The number of men and women and their age in a country.

Question 7

What is a Population Pyramid?

Answer 7

Represents the breakdown of the population by gender and age at a given point in time.

Question 8

What are the stages of the Demographic Transition Model?

Answer 8

1st - stable NIR; 2nd - rapid growth; 3rd - moderate growth; 4th - stable; 5th - rapid decrease.

Question 9

What is the Epidemiological Transition Model?

Answer 9

Same as the demographic transition model.

Question 10

What is the Malthusian Theory?

Answer 10

Food is linear growth while human population is exponential, leading to potential food shortages.

Question 11

What is the Neo-Malthusian Theory?

Answer 11

Updates Malthusian Theory with new technology and questions sustainability.

Question 12

What is the One Child Policy?

Answer 12

A policy to force people to only have one child.

Question 13

What is Pro Natalist?

Answer 13

Government encouraging population growth with incentives.

Question 14

What is Anti Natalist?

Answer 14

Belief that it is morally wrong to have children or that people should be discouraged from having children.

Question 15

What is Total Fertility Rate?

Answer 15

Average number of children born to women.

Question 16

What is Crude Birth Rate?

Answer 16

Births per 1,000 population.

Question 17

What is Life Expectancy?

Answer 17

The number of years a person may expect to remain alive.

Question 18

What are Degenerative Diseases?

Answer 18

Diseases associated with longevity and old age, such as heart disease.

Question 19

What are Pensions?

Answer 19

Retirement money given from the government.

Question 20

What is Social Security?

Answer 20

Government program that helps a person save money for retirement.

Question 21

What is the Old-Age Dependency Ratio?

Answer 21

The relationship between the number of people over 65 and the working age (15-64).

Question 22

What is Universal Healthcare?

Answer 22

Healthcare system that provides health services to all citizens.

Question 23

What is Urban?

Answer 23

City.

Question 24

What is Rural?

Answer 24

Farmland.

Question 25

What are Intervening Opportunities?

Answer 25

Things that prevent migrants from getting to their destination.

Question 26

What are Push Factors?

Answer 26

Factors that may draw someone away from a place.

Question 27

What are Pull Factors?

Answer 27

Factors that may attract someone towards a place.

Question 28

What is Voluntary Migration?

Answer 28

People leaving their home voluntarily due to job opportunities.

Question 29

What is Involuntary/Forced Migration?

Answer 29

People forced out of their homeland due to natural disasters or wars.

Question 30

What is Internal Migration?

Answer 30

Migrants who move within the borders of their country.

Question 31

What is Chain Migration?

Answer 31

Migrants from a particular place follow others to a destination.

Question 32

What is Step Migration?

Answer 32

Migration that occurs in stages.

Question 33

What are Guest Workers?

Answer 33

Workers that go from LDC to MDC to help the economy grow.

Question 34

What is Asylum?

Answer 34

The right to protection in the first country in which refugees arrive.

Question 35

What are Remittances?

Answer 35

Money sent back by migrants to their home country.

Question 36

What is a Receiving Country?

Answer 36

Country receiving the refugee or migrant.

Question 37

What is a Refugee?

Answer 37

A person with a well-founded fear of persecution.

Question 38

What is Overpopulation?

Answer 38

Population exceeds food supply.