Unit 2 Vocab Flashcards
Agricultural Density
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture (usually used for economic differences)
Anitinatalist
Policies that discourage people from having children
arable
suitable for growing crops
Arithmetic Density
The total number of people divided by the total land area.
Asylum seekers
Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee.
Brain Drain
Large-Scale emigration by talented or smart people, such as exiting a country because of unfair social rights.
Carrying Capacity
Largest number of individuals of a population that an environment can support.
Chain Migration
migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.
Circulation
Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.
Contraception
Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring
Crude birth rate CBR
The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.
Crude death rate CDR
The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people.
Demographic transition
The process of change in a society’s population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population.
Demography
The science study of population characteristics.
Dependency ratio
The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force.
Doubling Time
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
Ecumene
The portion of Earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement.
Emigration
Migration from a location or exiting a country
Epidemic
A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease within one region.
Epidemiology
The study of diseases, incidents distribution impossible control of diseases, and other factors relating to health.
fertility
The production of offspring within a population.
Immigration
A person with temporary permission to work in another country.
immigration
Migration to a new location are entering a new country.
infant mortality rate
The total number of deaths in a year among infants, under one year of every 1000 live births in a society.
internal migration
Permanent movement within a particular country.
internally displaced person
Someone who has been forced to migrate for a similar political reasons on the refugee, but has not migrated across an international border.
Interregional migration
Permanent movement from one region to another.
intervening obstacle
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders (delays) migration.
Intervening opportunity
The presence of a near opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away
Life expectancy
The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social, economic, and medical conditions.
migration
Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.
mortality
Death rate.
Natural increase rate
The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude birth rate.
net migration
The difference between the level immigration and the level of emigration.
pandemic
Disease that affects multiple regions after this out for size
physical density
The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
Population pyramid
A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
Pronatalist
A government policy that encourages or forces childbearing.
pull factors
Factors the Indus people to move to a new location.
push factors
Factors that induce people to leave old residences.
Quota
Hola that place is maximum limit on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.
refugees
People who are forced to migrate from their home country, and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their 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
sex ratio
The number of miles per hundred females in a population.
Step migration
migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages for example, from farmed nearby Village in later to a town and city.
total fertility rate
The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years.
Transhumance
Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and low land pastures.
transitional migration
regular movement of a person between two or more countries resulting in the new culture identity.
Urbanization
An increase in the percentage in the number of people living in urban settlements.
interrogational migration
Permanent movement within one region.
