Unit 2 Vocab

Question 1

Life Expectancy

Answer 1

how long a newborn is expected to be able to live

Question 2

Antinatalist

Answer 2

a person who believes that it is wrong to have children

Question 3

Epidemiological Transition

Answer 3

Analyzes health threats in different stages of the DTM

Question 4

Internally Displaced Person

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Ravenstein’s Laws of
Migration

Answer 5

Most immigrants will travel only a short distance to settle

Question 6

Malthusian Theory

Answer 6

World population rate was surpassing food supply rate

Question 7

Crude Birth Rate

Answer 7

total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people

Question 8

Pronatalist

Answer 8

Person who encourages people to have children

Question 9

Push Factors

Answer 9

reasons that individuals might emigrate from a location

Question 10

Agricultural Density

Answer 10

Ratio of farmers to total amount of land suitable for agriculture

Question 11

Population Piramid

Answer 11

show the age and sex demographics of a particular country, city, or neighborhood

Question 12

Guest Worker

Answer 12

A term once used for a worker who traveled to developed countries in northern or Western Europe, usually from southern or Eastern Europe in search of higher wages

Question 13

Intraregional

Answer 13

Migrating within the same region in one country

Question 14

Demographic Transition Model

Answer 14

process of change in society’s population from high CBR, CDR and low rate of natural increase to higher total population

Question 15

Pull Factors

Answer 15

characteristics that attracts people to a location

Question 16

Xenophobia

Answer 16

prejudice against people from other countries

Question 17

Arythmetic Density

Answer 17

number of people per thousand square feet

Question 18

Asylum Seeker

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Sex Ratio

Answer 19

number of males per 100 females

Question 20

Carrying Capacity

Answer 20

Number of people a location can support

Question 21

Dependency Ratio

Answer 21

Amount of people who are unable to work (0-15, 65+)

Question 22

Physilogical Density

Answer 22

Number of people on land that is suitable for farming

Question 23

Population Density

Answer 23

how many people are in one area

Question 24

Interregional

Answer 24

Migrating between different regions in the same country

Question 25

Total Fertility Rate

Answer 25

Average numeber of childern a woman will have in her life

Question 26

Crude Death Rate

Answer 26

total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people

Question 27

Chain Migration

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Refugee

Answer 28

People who are forced to migrate from their home for fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, or political beliefs

Question 29

Gravity Model of Migration

Answer 29

Size and distance between two cities or countries will
influence the amount of interaction

Question 30

Natural Increase Rate

Answer 30

percentage growth of a population in a year (CBR-CDR)