Unit 2 vocab

Question 1

intervening opportunity

Answer 1

A nearby attractive locale where migrants may decide to settle instead of going to the intended destination farther away

Question 2

pronatalist

Answer 2

Designed to boost fertility rates and ultimately population growth

Question 3

zero population growth

Answer 3

When a country has the same number of births and deaths in a given year, its rate of natural increase (RNI) is zero

Question 4

arithmetic (crude) density

Answer 4

The average number of people per unit of land area (usually per square mile or kilometer)

Question 5

quota

Answer 5

a fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute

Question 6

remittances

Answer 6

Money sent from a foreign worker to friends and family in their country of origin

Question 7

pull factors

Answer 7

The attributes of other places that make them appealing to potential migrants

Question 8

carrying capacity

Answer 8

The number of people a particular environment or Earth as a whole can support on a sustainable basis

Question 9

internally displaced person (IDP)

Answer 9

internally displaced person (IDP)
Someone who remains within his or her country’s borders despite being persecuted by their home country

Question 10

dependency ratio

Answer 10

The number of dependents in a population that each 100 working-age people (ages 15 to 64 years) must support

Question 11

step (or stepwise) migration

Answer 11

Migration carried out in a series of stages, usually from nearby to bigger and more distant places

Question 12

asylum seeker

Answer 12

a person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another

Question 13

population distribution

Answer 13

The pattern in which humans are spread out on Earth’s surface

Question 14

physiological density

Answer 14

The average number of people per unit area (a square mile or kilometer) of arable land

Question 15

total fertility rate (TFR)

Answer 15

The average number of children born per woman during her reproductive lifetime, considered to be from 15 to 49 years of age

Question 16

chain migration

Answer 16

The process by which some people’s migration to a new place leads their family members, friends, and others to move to the same place

Question 17

guest worker

Answer 17

A person with temporary permission to work in another country

Question 18

brain drain

Answer 18

A phenomenon where a country or a place loses young, more educated, and skilled people through migration

Question 19

antinatalist policy

Answer 19

Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rates

Question 20

voluntary migration

Answer 20

Migration that is done willingly

Question 21

rate of natural increase (RNI)

Answer 21

The difference between the number of births and deaths in a given year, when expressed as a percentage of total population

Question 22

ravenstien

Answer 22

set of 11 laws proposed by Ernst Ravenstein in 1885 that describe why immigrants move, how they move, and their characteristics

Question 23

push factors

Answer 23

Factors that cause people to be dissatisfied with their present locales and want to move somewhere else

Question 24

demography

Answer 24

The statistical study of population and its change

Question 25

malthusian

Answer 25

A term derived from the name Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist and cleric, to mean either “of or relating to Malthus’s theory” or “a follower of Malthus”