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Unit 2 Vocab Flashcards

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Agriculture Density

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The total number of farmers per unit of arable land

The total number of people per unit area of land (crude density)

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Antinatalist

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

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Arithmetic Density

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The total number of people per unit area of land

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Asylum

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The right to protection in a country

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Brain Drain

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Loss of trained or educated people to lure of work in another, often in richer country

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Carrying Capacity

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the maximum population size an environment can sustain

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Chain Migration:

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

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Circular Migration

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

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Crude birth Rate (CBR):

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

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

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Crude Death Rate (CDR):

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Number of deaths in a given year per 100 people in give population

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Demographic Transition Model (DTM):

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Model that represents shifts in the growth of worlds populations, based on population trends related to birth and death rates

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Dependency Ratio

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Number of people in a dependent age group (Under 15 or older than 65) divided by the number of people in the working-age group (15-64) multiplied by 100

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Distance Decay

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

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Doubling time

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

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Emigration

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Movement away from a location

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Epidemiological Transition model (ETM)

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

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Forced migration

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

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Friction of Distance

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

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Gravity model

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Model that predicts the interaction between 2 or more places: geographers derived the model from newton’s law of universal gravitational

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Guest Worker

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Migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor

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Human Migration

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Permanent movement of people from 1 place to another.

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Human Trafficking

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Defined by the UN as “recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of person’s by improper means (force, abduction, fraud, or coercion

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Immigration

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Movement to a location

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Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)

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Number of deaths of children under the age of 1 per live births.

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Internal migration

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Movement within a country’s border

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Internally Displaced Persons

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Person who has been forced to flee his her home but remains inside country’s border

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Interregional Migration

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Movement from one region of the country to another.

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Intervening Obstacle

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Occurrence that hold migrants back

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Intervening Opportunity

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Occurrence that cause migrants to pause their journey by choice

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Intraregional Mogration

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Movement withing one region of a country.

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Life Expectancy

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Average number of years a person is expected to live

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Neo-Mathusian

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

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Net-Migration

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

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Physiological Density

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Number of people occupying a arable of land

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Population Density

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Number of people occupying a unit of land

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Population Distribution

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Where people live in a geographic area

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Population Pyrimaid

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

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Pronatalist

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

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Pull Factor

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Positive cause that attracts someone to a new location

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Push Factor

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Negative cause that complex so,one to leave a location

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Quotas

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Limit on the number of immigrants into each country each year

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Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)

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

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Refugee

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Person who is forced to leave his/her country for fear of persecution or death

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Relocation Diffusion

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Spread of culture traits through the movement of people

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Remittices

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Money earned by an emigrant abroad & sent back to his/her home country

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Sex Ratio

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Proportion of males to females in a population

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Step Migration

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Series of smaller moves to get to the ultimate destination

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Total Fertility Rate (FTR)

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The average number of children one woman in a given country or region will have during her childbearing years

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Transnational Migration

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

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Voluntary Migration

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

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