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Unit 2 Vocab Flashcards

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Arithmetic Population Density

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The total number of people divided by the total land area.

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Physiological Population Density

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Dividing the population by the amount of arable land

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Arable

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Land suited for growing crops

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Agricultural Population Density

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The number of farmers t the area of arable land

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Age-sex graph; Population Pyramid

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A tool based on age , gender, birth rates & deaths , economic development . . .. gives evidence of past events like wars and environmental issues

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Cohorts

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A vertical Axis showing age groups

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Dependency ratio

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The comparison between sizes of potential work force and dependent population.

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Crude Birth Rate

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The number of live birth per year for each 1000 people

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Total fertility rate

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Woman in their childbearing years ages 15 to 49

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Life expectancy

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The number of years a person can live

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Infant Mortality Rate

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the number of children who die before their first birthday

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Crude Death rates

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An Area measured by 1000 population

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Rate of Natural Increase

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The percentage of which a country population grows of declines, Without the impact of migration

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Immigrants

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People who move into the country

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Emigrants

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People who moved out of the country

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Demographic Transition Modal

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Shows 5 typical stages of population change that countries experience as they modernize

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demographic momentum

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The tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution

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epidemiological transition model

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The changes death rates and more common causes of death within society

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Zero Population Growth

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When the Crude Birth Rate equals the Crude Death Rate and the natural increase rate approaches zero

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Replacement fertility

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when the population’s fertility is just high enough to maintain its current population

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Doubling time

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the amount of time it takes for the population of a region to double

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Population Policy

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an official government policy designed to encourage the population to conceive and raise multiple children

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Pro natalist

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An attitude or policy that encourages childbearing.

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Anti natalist

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Government policies that discourage couples from having children.

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Thomas Malthus

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suggested that the world’s population was growing faster than the rate of food production, and as a result, mass starvation would occur.

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Neo-Malthusians

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the population of the world is growing too quickly for the scale of agricultural production to keep up

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Carrying capacity

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The ability of the land to sustain a certain number of people

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Overpopulation

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The lack of necessary resources to meet the needs of the population of a defined area.

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Migration

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groups of people or animals moving from one region or country to another.

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Emigration

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leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country)

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Immigration

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the physical movement of people from one place to another

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Push factor

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people away from their home and include things like war.;
something that encourages an individual to migrate away from a certain place

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Pull factor

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people to a new home and include things like better opportunities
(positive factors that attract people to new areas from other areas)

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Net migration

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the difference in the number of people who immigrate to and emigrate from a country.

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Intervening obstacle

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a environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration.

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Intervening obstacle

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a environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration.

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Intervening opportunity

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

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Chain migration

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Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.

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Voluntary migration

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when someone chooses to leave home.

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Forced migration

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the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region.

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Step migration

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Gradual migration, from farm to village to town to big city

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Lee’s Model of Migration

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a model that accounts for push/pull factors and intervening obstacles in order to predict migration patterns

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Ravenstein’s Laws of
Migration

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Most migrants move only a short distance ( 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. )

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Migration Transition

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The change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other changes that also produce demographic transitions

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Migration stream

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A constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination.

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International migration

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The permanent movement from one country to another

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Internal migration

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human movement within a nation-state

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Remittances

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Money immigrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries.

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Guest workers

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legal immigrant who has work visa, usually short term

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Brain drain

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The large-scale emigration of a large group of individuals with technical skills or knowledge.

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Asylum

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the protection from oppression or hardship offered by another country.

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Repatriation

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A refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of a governmental or non-governmental organization.

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Internally displaced person (IDP)

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Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons to a refugee but has not migrated across an international border.

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