Unit 2 Vocab

Question 1

the total number of farmers per unit of arable land

Answer 1

agricultural density

Question 2

Describing attitudes or policies that discourage childbearing as a means of limiting population growth

Answer 2

antinatalist

Question 3

the total number of people per unit area of land; also called crude density

Answer 3

arithmetic density

Question 4

the right to protection

Answer 4

asylum

Question 5

the loss of trained or educated people to the lure of work in another - often richer - country

Answer 5

brain drain

Question 6

the maximum population size an environment can sustain

Answer 6

carrying capacity

Question 7

type of migration in which people move to a location because others from their community have previously migrated there

Answer 7

chain migration

Question 8

Migration pattern in which migrant workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs

Answer 8

circular migration

Question 9

the number of births in a given year per 1,000 people in a given population

Answer 9

crude birth rate (CBR)

Question 10

The number of deaths in a given year per 1,000 people in a given environment

Answer 10

crude death rate (CDR)

Question 11

a model that represents shifts in the growth of the world’s populations, based on population trends related to birth rate and death rate

Answer 11

demographic transition model (DTM)

Question 12

The number of people in a dependent age group (under age 15 or age 65 and older) divided by the number of people in the working age group (ages 15 to 64) multiplied by 100

Answer 12

dependency ratio

Question 13

a principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have

Answer 13

Distance decay

Question 14

The number of years in which a population growing at a certain rate would double

Answer 14

doubling time

Question 15

Movement away from a location

Answer 15

emigration

Question 16

A model that describes the changes in fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and population age distribution, largely as a result of changes in causes of death

Answer 16

epidemiological transition model (ETM)

Question 17

type of migration in which people are compelled to move by economic, political, environmental, or cultural factors

Answer 17

forced migration

Question 18

a concept that states that the longer a journey is, the more time, effort, and cost it will involve

Answer 18

friction of distance

Question 19

a model that predicts the interaction between 2 or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton’s law of universal gravitation

Answer 19

gravity model

Question 20

a migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor

Answer 20

guest workers

Question 21

the permanent movement of people from one place to another

Answer 21

human migration

Question 22

defined by the UN as “the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion)”

Answer 22

Human trafficking

Question 23

movement to a location

Answer 23

immigration

Question 24

the number of deaths of children under the age of 1 per 1,000 live births

Answer 24

infant mortality rate (IMR)

Question 25

movement within a country's borders

Answer 25

internal migration

Question 26

person who has been forced to flee his or her home but remains within the country's borders

Answer 26

internally displaced persons

Question 27

movement from one region of the country to another

Answer 27

interregional migration

Question 28

an occurrence that holds migrants back

Answer 28

intervening obstacle

Question 29

an occurrence that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice

Answer 29

intervening opportunity

Question 30

movement within one region of the country

Answer 30

intraregional migration

Question 31

the average number of years a person is expected to live

Answer 31

life expectancy

Question 32

describing the theory related to the idea that population growth is unsustainable and that future population cannot be supported by Earth's resources

Answer 32

Neo-Malthusian

Question 33

the difference between the number of emigrants and immigrants in a location, such as a city or a country

Answer 33

net migration

Question 34

the total number of people per unit of arable land

Answer 34

physiological density

Question 35

the number of people occupying a unit of land

Answer 35

population density

Question 36

where people live in a geographic area

Answer 36

population distribution

Question 37

a graph that shows the age-sex distribution of a given population

Answer 37

population pyramid

Question 38

describing attitudes or policies that encourage childbearing as a means of spurring population growth

Answer 38

pronatalist

Question 39

a positive cause that attracts someone to a new location

Answer 39

pull factor

Question 40

a negative cause that compels someone to leave a location

Answer 40

push factor

Question 41

limit on the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year

Answer 41

quotas

Question 42

rate at which a population grows as the result of the difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate

Answer 42

rate of natural increase (RNI)

Question 43

a person who is forced to leave his or her country for fear of prosecution or death

Answer 43

refugee

Question 44

the spread of culture traits through the movement of people

Answer 44

relocation diffusion

Question 45

money earned by an emigrant abroad and sent back to his or her home country

Answer 45

remittances

Question 46

the proportion or males to females in a population

Answer 46

sex ratio

Question 47

series of smaller moves to get to the ultimate destination

Answer 47

step migration

Question 48

the average number of children one woman in a given country or region will have during her childbearing years (ages 15 to 49)

Answer 48

total fertility rate (TFR)

Question 49

international migration in which people retain strong cultural, emotional, and financial ties with their countries of origin

Answer 49

transnational migration

Question 50

type of migration in which people make the choice to move to a new place

Answer 50

voluntary migration