Unit 2 - Population and Migration

Question 1

The pattern of human settelement– the spread of people across the world.

Answer 1

Population Distribution

Question 2

Population per square mile or kilometer

Answer 2

Population Density

Question 3

Regions between 30 degrees North and 60 degrees North and regions between 30 degrees South and 60 degrees South

Answer 3

Midlatitudes

Question 4

The hierarchal division of the population into groups based on factors such as economic power, ethnicity, and region

Answer 4

Social Stratification

Question 5

Calculated by dividing a region’s population by its total area

Answer 5

Arithmetic Population Density

Question 6

Dividing the population by the amount of arable land

Answer 6

Physiological Population Density

Question 7

Land suitable for growing crops

Answer 7

Arable

Question 8

The population in which the environment can support without significant environmental deterioration

Answer 8

Carrying Capacity

Question 9

The number of farmers to the number of arable land

Answer 9

Agricultural Population Density

Question 10

The changing of political boundaries

Answer 10

Redistricting

Question 11

A larger population then an environment can support

Answer 11

Overpopulation

Question 12

Provides data on age, gender, birth rates, death rates, life span, and economic development

Answer 12

Age-sex Composition Map/ Population Pyramid

Question 13

The vertical axis that shows age in a population pyramid

Answer 13

Cohort

Question 14

The slowdown of births

Answer 14

Birth Deficit

Question 15

When the birth rate spikes

Answer 15

Baby Boom

Question 16

The boom ends and birth rates are low for a couple of years

Answer 16

Baby Bust

Question 17

An increase that reflects on an earlier baby boom

Answer 17

Echo

Question 18

A value comparing the working to the non-working part of the population

Answer 18

Dependency ratio

Question 19

The group expected to be society’s labor force

Answer 19

Potential Workforce

Question 20

The people in the population who are under 15 and over 64 (too young or old to work full time)

Answer 20

Dependent Population

Question 21

The number of live births per year for each 1,000 people

Answer 21

Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

Question 22

The average number of children who would be born per woman ages 15-49 in a country, assuming every woman lived through her childbearing years.

Answer 22

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

Question 23

Programs to decrease the number of births

Answer 23

Anti-natalist Policies

Question 24

Programs designed to increase the fertility rate

Answer 24

Pro-natalist Policies

Question 25

The number of years the average person will live

Answer 25

Life Expectancy

Question 26

The number of children who die before their first birthday

Answer 26

Infant Mortality Rate

Question 27

Shows five typical stages of population change that countries pass through as they modernize

Answer 27

Demographic Transition Model

Question 28

High birth rate and low life expectancy

Answer 28

Expansive Population Pyramid

Question 29

A population that is not significantly growing or shrinking

Answer 29

Stationary Population Pyramid

Question 30

The death rate of a population per 1,000 people

Answer 30

Crude Death Rate

Question 31

The percentage at which a population is growing or declining without the impact of migration

Answer 31

Rate of Natural Increase

Question 32

people who move into the country

Answer 32

immigrants

Question 33

people who move out of the country

Answer 33

emigrants

Question 34

Total Population Change = Births - Deaths + Immigrants - Emigrants

Answer 34

Demographic Balancing Equation

Question 35

Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.

Answer 35

Epidemiological Transition Model

Question 36

Theory of population growth in which population growth occurs exponentially, so it increases according to birth rate.

Answer 36

Malthusian Theory

Question 37

People who have modernized the Malthusian Theory.

Answer 37

Neo-Malthusians

Question 38

The permanent or semi-permanent relocation of people from one place to another.

Answer 38

Migration

Question 39

A movement made by choice.

Answer 39

Voluntary Migration

Question 40

Negative circumstances, events, or conditions.

Answer 40

Push Factors

Question 41

Positive circumstances, events, or conditions.

Answer 41

Pull Factors

Question 42

Protection from danger in the home country.

Answer 42

Asylum

Question 43

Barriers that make reaching the desired destination more difficult

Answer 43

Intervening Obstacles

Question 44

The idea that most migrants move only a short distance. There is a process of absorption, whereby people immediately surrounding a rapidly growing town move into it and the gaps they leave are filled by migrants from more distant areas, and so on until the attractive force (pull factors) is spent.

Answer 44

Ravenstein's Laws of Migration

Question 45

A process in which migrants reach their final destination through a series of smaller moves.

Answer 45

Step Migration

Question 46

A model in urban geography derived from Newton's law of gravity is used to predict the degree of migration interaction between two places.

Answer 46

Gravity Model of Migration

Question 47

Immigrants who return to their home country.

Answer 47

Return Migration

Question 48

People do not choose to relocate but do so under threat of violence.

Answer 48

Forced Migration

Question 49

A migrant who has moved to another part of their original country once the danger has passed

Answer 49

Internally Displaced Person

Question 50

A migrant who has a well-founded fear that they will be harmed if they return home

Answer 50

Refugees

Question 51

When people move to communities where relatives have previously migrated to

Answer 51

Chain Migration

Question 52

Neighborhoods filled primarily with people of the same ethnic group

Answer 52

Ethnic Enclaves

Question 53

A strong dislike of people who practice another culture

Answer 53

Xenophobia

Question 54

When migration out of a country is made up of highly skilled people

Answer 54

Brain Drain

Question 55

Money immigrants send to their friends and family in the countries they left

Answer 55

Remittances