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| 1895438992 | Demography | Study of population in general | 0 | |
| 1895441487 | Carrying capacity | The number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental defeat ion. | 1 | |
| 1895442515 | Population density | Total population relative to land size | 2 | |
| 1895446152 | Arithmetic population density | The total number of people per area of area of land. Measured in square miles or square kilometers | 3 | |
| 1895451945 | Physiological density | The total population per area of arable land | 4 | |
| 1895454178 | Megapolis | A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex. | 5 | |
| 1895455052 | Census | A period and official count of a country's population | 6 | |
| 1895457080 | Total fertility rate | TFR the average number of children born to a women during her child bearing years. | 7 | |
| 1895459739 | Aging index | The number of people aged 65 years and older per 100 children aged 0 to 14 years in and given population. | 8 | |
| 1895460974 | Doubling time | The time required for a population to double in size | 9 | |
| 1895464813 | Population explosion | The rapid growth of the worlds human population during the past century, attending by ever-shorter doubling times and accelerating rates of increase. | 10 | |
| 1895467762 | Zero population growth | A state in which a population is maintained a constant level because the number of deaths is exactly offset by the number of burgers. | 11 | |
| 1895471646 | Natural increase | Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths. Natural increase of the population does not reflect either emigrant or immigrant movements | 12 | |
| 1895477850 | Crude birth rate | CBR the number of live births yearly per thousand people in a population | 13 | |
| 1895479174 | Crude death rate | CDR the number of deaths yearly per thousand people in a population. | 14 | |
| 1895485604 | Demographic transition | DT refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. Shown through demographic transition Model | 15 | |
| 1895488002 | Population composition | Structure of a population in terms of age, sex, and other properties such as marital status and education | 16 | |
| 1895490387 | Infant mortality rate | IMR a figure that describes the number of babies that die within the first year of their lives in a given population | 17 | |
| 1895492926 | Child mortality rate | CMR a figure that describes the number of children that die between the first and fifth years of their lives in a given population | 18 | |
| 1895495789 | Expansive population policies | Government policies that encourage large families and raise the rate of population growth | 19 | |
| 1895497825 | Eugenic population policies | Government policies designed to favor one racial sector over other | 20 | |
| 1895500068 | Restrictive population policies | Government policies designed to reduce the rate of natural increase. | 21 | |
| 1895500878 | Population growth | Linear: growth at a constant rate Exponential: rapid growth | 22 | |
| 1895508018 | Dependency ratio | Population ratio of those typically not in labor force (the dependent part) and those typically in the labor force (the productive part). Used to measure the pressure on productive population | 23 | |
| 1895513825 | Demographic momentum | The tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because once this happens a country moves to a different stage in the demographic transition model | 24 | |
| 1895515397 | Pro/anti- Natalism | A belief that promotes or against human reproduction. Promotes/anti childbearing and parenthood as desirable for social reasons and to ensure national continuance | 25 | |
| 1895515601 | Epidemiology | The branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of disease and other factors relating to health | 26 | |
| 1895516046 | S curve | Logical, when the rate of population slows down as it reaches carrying capacity because the environment can no longer handle the number of species | 27 | |
| 1895516148 | J curve | The population size increases exponentially because people have ideal conditions of living | 28 | |
| 1895522460 | Remittances | Many migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming and important part of the economy in many poorer countries. Reverse remittances: opposite | 29 | |
| 1895528623 | Cyclic movement | Involves journeys that begin at our home base and bring us back to it. -activity spaces- | 30 | |
| 1895540321 | Periodic moment | Involves a longer period of time away from the home base than cyclic movement -migrant labor, military service, etc- | 31 | |
| 1895540800 | Migration | When movement results in permanent relocation across significant distances. | 32 | |
| 1895543800 | Activity spaces | The space within daily activity occurs | 33 | |
| 1895550639 | Nomadism | A member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and after following a traditional route or circuit according to the stage of the pasturage or food supply- kind of cyclic movement | 34 | |
| 1895556030 | Migrant labor | A common type of periodic movement involving millions of workers in the U.S. and tens of millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances | 35 | |
| 1895557865 | Transhumance | A system of patrol farming where ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability of pastures | 36 | |
| 1895558702 | Immigration | The act of a person migrating into a new country or area | 37 | |
| 1895561200 | Emigration | The act of a person migrating away from a country or area - an out migrant | 38 | |
| 1895562916 | Internal migration | Human movement within a nation-state, such as ongoingly westward and southwards moments in the US | 39 | |
| 1895565643 | Forced migration | Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate | 40 | |
| 1895568179 | Voluntary migration | In which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, Not because they are forced to move | 41 | |
| 1895570404 | Laws of migration | Developed by British demographer Ernst Ravenstein, 5 laws that predict the flow of migrant s 1. Every migration flow generates a return or counter migration 2. Majority of migrations move a short distance 3. Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big city destinations 4. Urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants s of rural areas 5. Families are more likely to make international moves than young adults | 42 | |
| 1895579908 | Gravity model | A mathematical prediction of the interaction of places Spatial interaction= pop. A • pop. B divided by total distance | 43 | |
| 1895580965 | Push factors | Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abide and migrate to a new locale | 44 | |
| 1895582828 | Pull factors | Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas | 45 | |
| 1895584575 | Distance decay | The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction | 46 | |
| 1895586280 | Step migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example: from farm to nearby village, and later to town and city | 47 | |
| 1895588904 | Intervening opportunity | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away | 48 | |
| 1895591193 | Kinship links | Types of push factors or pull factors that influence a migrant's decisions to go where family or friends have already found success | 49 | |
| 1895598497 | Chain migration | Pattern of migration that develops when migrant's move along and through kinship links (I.e. One migrant settles in a place and then writes, calls, or communicates through others to describe this place to family and friends who in turn them migrate there.) | 50 | |
| 1895608787 | Islands of development | Place built by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of playing jobs and infrastructure | 51 | |
| 1895611170 | Russification | The soviet policy to promote the diffusion of Russian culture throughout the republics of the former soldier Union | 52 | |
| 1895612299 | Guest workers | Legal immigrants who has a work visa, usually short term. | 53 | |
| 1895613964 | Refugees | People who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum Ina bother country | 54 | |
| 1895620765 | Internally displaced persons | People who have been displaced within their own countries and don't cross international borders as they flee | 55 | |
| 1895622094 | Asylum | Right to protection in the first country in which the refugee arrives shelter/protection | 56 | |
| 1895625316 | Repatriation | A refugee or a group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or non- government organization | 57 | |
| 1895629704 | Genocide | The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 58 | |
| 1895631456 | Immigration laws | Laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state | 59 | |
| 1895634814 | Selective immigration | Proves to control immigration in which individuals within certain backgrounds (I.e. Criminal records, poor health, or subversive activities) are barred from immigrating | 60 | |
| 1895636329 | Place utility | Having a product where customers can buy it | 61 |
