Vocab Unit 2

Question 1

Brain Drain

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Brain Gain

Answer 2

An increase in the number of highly trained foreign born professionals entering a country to live and work when greater opportunities are offered.

Question 3

Carrying Capacity

Answer 3

The maximum population size of an environment can sustain.

Question 4

Chain Migration

Answer 4

The of migration in which people move to a location because other from their community have previously migrated there.

Question 5

Refugee

Answer 5

A person who is forced to leave his or her country for fear of persecution or death

Question 6

Pronatalist

Answer 6

Describing attitudes of policies that encourage child bearing as a means of spurring population growth.

Question 7

Fertility

Answer 7

The ability to produce children

Question 8

Diaspora

Answer 8

A large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have since moved out to places all over the world

Question 9

Demographics

Answer 9

Data about the structures and characteristics or human populations

Question 10

Naturalization

Answer 10

The admittance of a foreigner to the citizenship of a country