Unit 2 geography Flashcards
population density
how many people live in a specific place
Physical factors that influence the distribution of human populations
Climate, landforms, bodies of waters, natural recources
Human factors that influence the distribution of human population
economic, political, cultural, and historical factors
arithmetic density
population divided by amount of land
physiological density
population divided by arable land
agricultural denstiy
farmers divided by arable land
4 main population clusters
South Asia, South-East Asia, East Asia, Europe
South asia countries
India, pakistan, bangladesh, sri lanka
South-East asia countries
Indonesia, Philippians, Malaysia, islands of java,
East Asia Countries
Eastern China, japan, Korean pennisula, taiwan
Europe countries
Monaco, Germany, France, over 4 dozen more
population distribution
where people are living
Carrying Capacity
Amount of people that can be supported without damaging the environment
CBR
total number of of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive
CDR
Total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive
NIR
the percentage by which a population grows in a year
TFR
Average number of kids a women will have
IMR
Total number of deaths under 1 year of age in a year for every 1000 live births
Doubling time
amount of time it takes for a population to double
Inter-regional migration
movement from one region of a country to another
Intraregional migration
Movement is within one region of a county
Malthusian theory
Food would grow in an arithmetic pattern, people grow in a geometric pattern (not enough food to go around->leads to Malthusian catastrophe.)
Neo Malthusian theory
Earth’s resources can only support a finite population. factors all resources, not just-food
GDP per capita
a measure of a countries economic output that accounts for its number of people
Dependency ratio
The ratio of the number of people not in the workforce and those who are
Immigration
a permanent move to a place
emigration
leaving a place as part of a permanent move
internally displaced persons (IDP)
a person forced to leave their home region to escape bad conditions but do not cross a international boundary
xenophobia
hatred of foreigners based on stereotypes prejudice and racism
ethnocentrism
judging another culture by the standards of its own culture
remittance
transfer of money by a foreign worker to an individual in their home country
