vocabbb

Question 1

pro natalist policies

Answer 1

Natalism promotes child-bearing and parenthood as desirable for social reasons and to ensure national continuance

Question 2

antinatalist policies

Answer 2

against child birth (CHINA, INDIA)

Question 3

balkination

Answer 3

to break up (as a region or group) into smaller and often hostile units

Question 4

borderlandscapes

Question 5

centipetal forces

Answer 5

for unifying a nation or peoples

Question 6

centifugal forces

Answer 6

for dividing a nation or people - contradictory to nationalism

Question 7

chain migration

Answer 7

migration of people to specific location b/c of members of same nationality previously migrated there

Question 8

Core countries

Answer 8

have high levels of development, a capacity at innovation and a convergence of trade flows.

Question 9

Periphery countries

Answer 9

usually have less development and are poorer countries.

Question 10

creole language

Answer 10

language developed from mix of colonizersw language and indigenous language of people being dominated

Question 11

creole language examples

Answer 11

french creole-haiti
papiamento-netherlands (CREOLIZED SPANISH)
potugese creole - african coast

Question 12

crude birth rate

Answer 12

number of live births in a society per year for every 1000 people

Question 13

cruede death rate

Answer 13

of deaths in a soceity per year for every 1000 epople

Question 14

demographic momentum

Answer 14

country wants to follow DTM

Question 15

DTM

Answer 15

change in pop as country develops

Question 16

devolution

Answer 16

the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

Question 17

enclave

Answer 17

is a country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country

Question 18

exclave

Answer 18

an exclave is one, which is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory.

Question 19

maghreb

Answer 19

region in northwest afric

Question 20

maldaptive diffusion

Answer 20

diffusion of an idea or innovation that is not suitable for the environment in which it diffused into (e.g., New England-style homes in Hawaii, or Ranch-style homes in northeast US).

Question 21

malthus

Answer 21

Theory of natural checks and positive checks

Question 22

mercator projection

Answer 22

equal distortion eeverywhere so it looks right

Question 23

official languages of UN (6)

Answer 23

Arabic 
Chinese 
English 
French 
Russian 
Spanish

Question 24

opec

Answer 24

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Question 25

rate of natural increase

Answer 25

CBR- CDR

Question 26

demographic accounting equation

Answer 26

(CBR-CDR) + (I-E)

Question 27

sovereignty

Answer 27

the quality of having independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory.

Question 28

stateless nations

Answer 28

nations and peoples who doesn’t have a country they call their own. People are still fighting for independence

Question 29

supranationalism

Answer 29

a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives
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Question 30

territoriality

Answer 30

The status of a territory

Question 31

transhumance

Answer 31

the action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter and highlands in summer.