Unit 2 Recap

Question 1

Also known as a population pyramid. Important because you can tell from the age distribution important characteristics of a country.

Answer 1

Age Distribution

Question 2

This is the population level that can be supporteed, given the quantity of food, habitat, water, and other life infrastructure present

Answer 2

Carrying Capacity

Question 3

Population of various age categories in an age-sex population pyramid.

Answer 3

Cohort

Question 4

The formula that calculates population change. Overall population + births - deaths + immigrants - emigrants.

OP + B - D + I - E

Answer 4

Demographic Formula

Question 5

The tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution. This is important because once this happens a country moves to a different stage in the demographic transition model.

Question 6

Cape Verde is in Stage 2 (High Growth), Chile is in Stage 3 (Moderate Growth), and Denmark is in Stage 4 (Low Growth). This is important because it shows how different parts of the world are in different stages of the demographic transition.

Question 7

Stage 1 is low growth, Stage 2 is High Growth, Stage 3 is Moderate Growth, and Stage 4 is Low Growth and Stage 5 although not officially a stage is a possible stage that includes zero or negative population group.

Answer 7

Demographic Transition Model

Question 8

The number of people who are too you or too old to work compared to the number of people in their productive years.

Question 9

The diffusion of fertility control is spread throughout the world. In the U.S it‟s below 2.1 in much of Africa it is above 4, if South America is between 2 and 3, in Europe it is below 2.1, in China and Russia it is below 2.1, and in much of the Middle East it is above 4.

Question 10

There are two types, contagious and hierarchical. Hierarchical is along high density areas that spread from urban to rural areas. Contagious is spread through the density of people.

Question 11

The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.

Question 12

The proportion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement. This is important because its tells how much of the land has been built upon and how much land is left for us to build on.

Question 13

This is a distinctive cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition.

Question 14

(IMR) The annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births. Its is expressed as the annual number of deaths among infants among infants per 1000 births rather than a percentage.

Question 15

This is when the projection population show exponential growth

Question 16

This is an adaptation that has become less helpful than harmful.

Answer 16

Malap

Question 17

Was one of the first to argue that the worlds rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food population. This is important because he brought up the point that we may be outrunning our supplies because of our exponentially growing population.

Answer 17

Thomas Malthus

Question 18

There are two useful ways to measure mortality; infant mortality rate and life expectancy. The IMR reflect a country‟s health care system and life expectancy measures the average number of years a baby can expect to live.

Question 19

(Crude Birth Rate) This is the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; it is expressed as number of birth in year to every 1000 people alive in the society.

Question 20

theory that builds upon Malthus‟ thoughts on overpopulation. Takes into count two factors that Malthus did not: population growth in LDC‟s, and outstripping of resources other than food

Answer 20

Neo- Malthusian

Question 21

Problems result when an area’s population exceeds the capacity of the environment to support them at an acceptable standard of living.

Question 22

the frequency with which something occurs in space is density

Question 23

a sudden increase or burst in the population in either a certain geographical area or worldwide

Question 24

the percentage by which a population grows in a year.
CBR-CDR = NIR Excludes migration

Question 25

traces the cyclical movement upwards and downwards in a graph.

Question 26

The number of males per hundred females in the population. Depends on birth and death rates, immigration. Men have higher death rates but also higher birth rates. Immigration usually means more males because they can make the journey.

Answer 26

Sex

Question 27

Refers to the quality and quantity of goods and services available to people and the way they are distributed within a population

Question 28

Providing the best outcomes for human and natural environments both in the present and for the future

Question 29

It is the opposition to overpopulation and refers to a sharp drop or decrease in a region‟s population
Unlike overpopulation, it does not refer to resources but to having enough people to support the local economic system. If there are not enough tax payers, then the area cannot continue.

Answer 29

Underpopulation

Question 30

when the crude birth rate equals the crude death rate and the natural increase rate approaches zero.

Question 31

space allotted for a certain industry or activity

Question 32

when one family member migrates to a new country and the rest of the family follows shortly after

Question 33

trends in migration and other processes that have a clear cycle

Question 34

People removed from there countries and forced to live in other countries because of war, natural disaster, and government.

Question 35

Predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it.

Question 36

Permanent movement within a particular country.

Question 37

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that helps migration.

Question 38

Permanent movement from one country to a different country on the same continent.

Answer 38

Inter

Question 39

Permanent movement from one region of the country to another

Question 40

Permanent movement from suburbs and rural area to the urban city area.

Question 41

People forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in social group, or political opinion.

Question 42

Seasonal migration of live stock between mountains and lowland pasture areas.

Answer 42

Transhumance