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Unit 2 Vocab Flashcards

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Interregional migration

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Permanent movement within one region.

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Urbanization

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An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

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Transnational migration

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Regular movement of a person between two or more countries resulting in a new cultural identity.

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Transhumance

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The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.

Things that move or change with the seasons.

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Total fertility rate (TFR)

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The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years.

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Step migration

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Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city.

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Sex ratio

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The number of males per 100 females in the population.

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Remittances

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Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming and important part of economy in many poorer counties.
Migrants send money to poor countries for the economy

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Refugees

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People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their age, race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. In order to be a refugee, they must be recognized as meeting these criteria.
People who are forced to migrate: say at least 3 things.

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Quota

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A law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.
Limit to who can come into a country.

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Push factors

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Factors that induce people to leave old residence.

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Pull factors

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Factors that include people to move to a new location.

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Pronatalist

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A government policy that encourage forces childbearing

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Physiological density

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The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
People per arable land.

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Population pyramid

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A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.

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Pandemic

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Disease that affects multiple regions.

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Net migration

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The difference between the level of migration and the level of emigration.

The difference between moving out and moving in

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Natural increase rate (NIR)

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The percentage of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.
(CBR-CDR=____[in percentage form])

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Mortality

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Death rate

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Migration

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Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.

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Life expectancy

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The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. (Given where they live)

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Intervening opportunity

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The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.

Ex. Jobs that are far away are not as great than jobs close by.

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Intervening obstacle

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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders (delays) migration.

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Internally displaced person

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

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Internal migration

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Permanent movement within a particular country.

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Infant mortality rate (IMR)

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Total number of deaths in a year among infants winder one year of every 1,000 live births in society.

The amount of babies that die in one year of their live.

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Immigration

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Migration to a new location or entering a new country.

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Guest workers

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A person with temporary permission to work in another country.

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Fertility

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The population of offspring within a population.

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Epidemiology

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The study of diseases-incidence,distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.

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Epidemic

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A widespread of an infectious disease within one region

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Emigration

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Migration from a location or exiting a country.

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Carrying capacity

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Largest number of individuals of a population that an environment can support.

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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.

Moving somewhere because of someone else.

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Circulation

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Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.

Something that happens regularly

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Contraception

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Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring.

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Crude birth rate (CBR)

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The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society.

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Crude death rate (CDR)

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The number of deaths per year per 1000 people
Every 1000=1 for or something

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Ecumene

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The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement.

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Doubling time

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

They are assuming the natural increase will be what they say it is.

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Demography

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The scientific study of population characteristics.

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Demographic transition

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The process of change in a societies population from a condition of high crude birth rate, and death rates And low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth rate, and death rates, low rate of natural increase and higher total population.

Changing to higher population

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Dependency ratio

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The number of people under age 15, and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force.

How many people out of ages 15 and 60 for working? 

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Brain drain

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Large-Scale, immigration by talented or smart people, such as exiting a country because of unfair social rights.

Lots of people migrating out of the country by smart people.

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Asylum seekers

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Someone Who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee.

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Arithmetic density

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

The number of people compared to the land.

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Arable

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Suitable for growing crops
Land or something able to grow crops
To remember: areABLE to grow crops.

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Antinataliat

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Policies that discourage people from having children
Guidelines that don’t want people having children

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Agricultural density

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The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture (Usually used for economic differences)
The amount of farmers compared to the land they plant on

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