vocabbb Flashcards
pro natalist policies
Natalism promotes child-bearing and parenthood as desirable for social reasons and to ensure national continuance
antinatalist policies
against child birth (CHINA, INDIA)
balkination
to break up (as a region or group) into smaller and often hostile units
borderlandscapes
centipetal forces
for unifying a nation or peoples
centifugal forces
for dividing a nation or people - contradictory to nationalism
chain migration
migration of people to specific location b/c of members of same nationality previously migrated there
Core countries
have high levels of development, a capacity at innovation and a convergence of trade flows.
Periphery countries
usually have less development and are poorer countries.
creole language
language developed from mix of colonizersw language and indigenous language of people being dominated
creole language examples
french creole-haiti
papiamento-netherlands (CREOLIZED SPANISH)
potugese creole - african coast
crude birth rate
number of live births in a society per year for every 1000 people
cruede death rate
of deaths in a soceity per year for every 1000 epople
demographic momentum
country wants to follow DTM
DTM
change in pop as country develops
devolution
the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
enclave
is a country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country
exclave
an exclave is one, which is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory.
maghreb
region in northwest afric
maldaptive diffusion
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).
malthus
Theory of natural checks and positive checks
mercator projection
equal distortion eeverywhere so it looks right
official languages of UN (6)
Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish
opec
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
rate of natural increase
CBR- CDR
demographic accounting equation
(CBR-CDR) + (I-E)
sovereignty
the quality of having independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory.
stateless nations
nations and peoples who doesn’t have a country they call their own. People are still fighting for independence
supranationalism
a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives
territoriality
The status of a territory
transhumance
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.
