Unit 2 Vocab Flashcards
Agriculture Density
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
Describing attitudes or policies that discourage child bearing as a means of limiting population growth
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Arithmetic Density
The total number of people per unit area of land
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Asylum
The right to protection in a country
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Brain Drain
Loss of trained or educated people to lure of work in another, often in richer country
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Carrying Capacity
the maximum population size an environment can sustain
Chain Migration:
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
migration pattern in which migrant workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs
Crude birth Rate (CBR):
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):
Number of deaths in a given year per 100 people in give population
Demographic Transition Model (DTM):
Model that represents shifts in the growth of worlds populations, based on population trends related to birth and death rates
Dependency Ratio
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
Distance Decay
A principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have
Doubling time
Number of years in which a population growing at a certain rate would double
Emigration
Movement away from a location
Epidemiological Transition model (ETM)
A model that describes changes in fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and population age distribution, largely as the result of changes in causes of death
Forced migration
Type of migration in which people are compelled to move by economic, political, environmental or cultural factors
Friction of Distance
A concept that states that the longer a journey is, the more time, effort, and cost it will involve
Gravity model
Model that predicts the interaction between 2 or more places: geographers derived the model from newton’s law of universal gravitational
Guest Worker
Migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor
Human Migration
Permanent movement of people from 1 place to another.
Human Trafficking
Defined by the UN as “recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of person’s by improper means (force, abduction, fraud, or coercion
Immigration
Movement to a location
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
Number of deaths of children under the age of 1 per live births.
Internal migration
Movement within a country’s border
Internally Displaced Persons
Person who has been forced to flee his her home but remains inside country’s border
Interregional Migration
Movement from one region of the country to another.
Intervening Obstacle
Occurrence that hold migrants back
Intervening Opportunity
Occurrence that cause migrants to pause their journey by choice
Intraregional Mogration
Movement withing one region of a country.
Life Expectancy
Average number of years a person is expected to live
Neo-Mathusian
Describing the theory related to the idea that population growth is unsustainable and that the future population cannot be supported by Earth’s resources
Net-Migration
The difference between the number of emigrants and immigrants in a location, such as a city or a country
Physiological Density
Number of people occupying a arable of land
Population Density
Number of people occupying a unit of land
Population Distribution
Where people live in a geographic area
Population Pyrimaid
Graphs that shows the age-sex distribution of a given population
Pronatalist
Describing attitudes or policies that encourage childbearing as a means of spurring population growth
Pull Factor
Positive cause that attracts someone to a new location
Push Factor
Negative cause that complex so,one to leave a location
Quotas
Limit on the number of immigrants into each country each year
Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)
Rate at which a population grows as the result of the difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate
Refugee
Person who is forced to leave his/her country for fear of persecution or death
Relocation Diffusion
Spread of culture traits through the movement of people
Remittices
Money earned by an emigrant abroad & sent back to his/her home country
Sex Ratio
Proportion of males to females in a population
Step Migration
Series of smaller moves to get to the ultimate destination
Total Fertility Rate (FTR)
The average number of children one woman in a given country or region will have during her childbearing years
Transnational Migration
International migration in which people retain strong cultural, emotional, and financial ties with their countries of origin
Voluntary Migration
Type of migration in which people make the choice to move to a new place
