3967826468 | Movement | Mobility of people foods and ideas across the surface of a planet | 0 | |
3967826469 | Migration | A change in residence intended to be permanent | 1 | |
3967826470 | Emigration | Movement of people away from a place | 2 | |
3967826471 | Immigration | Movement of people to a place | 3 | |
3967826472 | International migration/transnational migration | Movement across country borders | 4 | |
3967826473 | Internal migration | Migration occurring within a single country's borders | 5 | |
3968617980 | Demographic equation | The formula that calculates population change. The formula finds the increase (or decrease) in a population. The formula is found by doing births minus deaths plus (or minus) net migration. This is important because it helps to determine which stage in the demographic transition model a country is in. | 6 | |
3968623693 | global population accounting equation | P1 = P0 + B - D | 7 | |
3968630907 | Sub global population | 8 | ||
3968635604 | accounting equation | An equation showing the relationship among assets, liabilities, and owner's equity | 9 | |
3968640337 | Linearly growth | 10 | ||
3968645162 | compounding/GEOMETRICALLY growth | 11 | ||
3968659768 | J curve | a growth curve that depicts exponential growth | 12 | |
3968659769 | S curve | population when reached carrying capacity | 13 | |
3968671866 | Thomas Malthus | Author of "Essay on the Principal of Population" (1798) who claimed that population grows at an exponential rate while food production increases arithmetically, and thereby that, eventually, population growth would outpace food production. | 14 | |
3968676661 | Positive Checks | famines, wars, natural disasters that reduce human population | 15 | |
3968681599 | Negative Checks | Decreased birth rate limit population growth Abstinence, later marriage | 16 | |
3968977042 | neo malthusians | Advocacy of population control programs to enough resources for current and future populations Group who built on Malthus' theory and suggested that people wouldn't just starve for lack of food, but would have wars about food and other scarce resources. | 17 | |
3969007336 | karl marx | Father of Communism, when society is ordered, it should lead to wealth not hunger, belived capatalists were the problem... | 18 | |
3969052174 | william catton | Coined the tern "carrying capacity" + claimed the earth had been exceeding its carrying capacity for yrs at the expense of environmental damage but is going to go doun w/ war&famine - | 19 | |
3969348263 | Esther Boserup | belived Agricultueal meathoods depend on size of population -when food is not suffecient, exess population will die | 20 | |
3969370683 | Julian simon | argued that population growth stimulated economic growth | 21 | |
3969386536 | demography | Scientific study of human populations. | 22 | |
3969390855 | Arithmetic population density | the population of a country divided by its total land area | 23 | |
3969396641 | Physiological population density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture | 24 | |
3969400910 | Agricultural population density | Number of farmers per area of arable land | 25 | |
3969404879 | Population distrubution | the arrangement or spread of people living in a given area | 26 | |
3969408658 | Ecumene | The proportion of the earth inhabited by humans. | 27 | |
3977901594 | The Human Development index | an index of development, which takes into account economic, social and demographic factors, using GNI per capita, literacy, amount of education, and life expectancy. | 28 | |
3977905076 | Standard of living | Quality of life based on ownership of necessities and luxuries that make life easier. | 29 | |
3977909072 | Natality | Birth rate | 30 | |
3977912732 | Crude birth rate | The number of live births per year per 1,000 people. | 31 | |
3977916517 | Rate of natural increace | the annual rate of population growth. This percentage is calculated by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate. It does not include people moving into or out of a country. | 32 | |
3977922394 | Total fertility rate | The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years. | 33 | |
3978020778 | population explotion | rapid increase in population | 34 | |
3978025204 | zero population growth | when the birth rate equals the death rate | 35 | |
3978038913 | Stationary Population Level | The level at which a national population ceases to grow | 36 | |
3978043922 | Mortality | death | 37 | |
3978047116 | Crude death rate | The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people. | 38 | |
3978050865 | Infant mortality rate | The percentage of children who die before their first birthday within a particular area or country. | 39 | |
3978053255 | Child mortality rate | Number of deaths per thousand children within the first five years of life. | 40 | |
3978055662 | Life expectancy | A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live | 41 | |
3978058369 | Immigration | Migration to a new location | 42 | |
3978060521 | Emigration | Migration from a location | 43 | |
3978066241 | The epidemiological transition model | Abdel Omran developed a system of three stages of epidemiological transition: age of pestilence and famine, age of receding pandemics and finally age of degenerative and human-made transitions. It was later expanded to five stages. | ![]() | 44 |
3978076713 | Pronatalist policies | policies that encourage fertility | 45 | |
3978893358 | Antinatalist Population Policies | Restrictive policy that discourages people from having babies | 46 | |
3978897293 | Population composition | Structure of a population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education | 47 | |
3978902575 | Child Dependency ratio | number of persons under age 18 relative to those of working age | 48 | |
3978909667 | Old age dependency ratio | the ratio of the number of people over 65 (retirees) to every 100 people between 20 and 65 (workers) | 49 | |
3978932395 | Cyclic Movement | movement that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally | 50 | |
3978937054 | Activity spaces | the space within which daily activity occurs | 51 | |
3978940815 | Periodic movement | motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same | 52 | |
3978942908 | Net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | 53 | |
3978946497 | International Migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | 54 | |
3978950650 | Refugees | People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. | 55 | |
3978954704 | Laws of migration | 1) Net migration amounts to a fraction of the gross migration.2) The majority of migrants move a short distance.3) Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big cities.4) Urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas. 5) Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults. | 56 | |
3978960009 | Gravity model of Migration | Larger places attract more immigrants than smaller ones. Destinations that are more distant have a weaker pull (distance decay). | 57 | |
3978963954 | Push factors | Incentives for potential migrants to leave a place, such as a harsh climate, economic recession, or political turmoil. | 58 | |
3978967429 | Pull factors | Attractions that draw migrants to a certain place, such as a pleasant climate and employment or educational opportunities. | 59 | |
3978972288 | Arithmetic population density | the population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area | 60 | |
3978982958 | Physiological population density | The number of people per unit area of arable land. | 61 | |
3978988707 | Agricultural population density | measure of total farmer relative to arable land | 62 |
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