4983650274 | crude birth rate | annual number of live births per 1,000 people in the population | 0 | |
4983650275 | crude death rate | the number of deaths per year per 1,000 people | 1 | |
4983650276 | age distibution | aka population pyramid | 2 | |
4983650277 | aritmetic population dnsity | the total number of people divided by the total land area, least accurate | 3 | |
4983650278 | carrying capacity | largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support | 4 | |
4983650279 | chain migration | a stream of people out of an area as first movers communicate with people back home stimulate others to follow later ex: mexicans moving to americans | 5 | |
4983650280 | child mortality rate | number of children who die between their 1st-5th year of their life | 6 | |
4983650281 | cohort | the age bracket in a population pyramid category of people with something in common, usually their age | 7 | |
4983650282 | cyclic movement | movement has a closed route/repeated daily ex: commuting to work | 8 | |
4983650283 | demographic equation | birth-death+net migration calculates population change | 9 | |
4983650284 | demographic momentum | tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility declining because of their young age distribution once this happens a country moves to a different stage in the demographic transition model | 10 | |
4983650286 | demographic transition model | a sequence of demographic changes in which a country moved from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time | 11 | |
4983650287 | dependency ratio | number of people who are too young/too old to work compared to those who are the right age to work ex: europe has a high dependency ratio cause there is more old people | 12 | |
4983650289 | disease diffusion | how disease spreads in a populations determines how disease spread ex: cholera | 13 | |
4983650290 | distance decay | becomes less important/relevant further from origin | 14 | |
4983650291 | doubling time | time it takes for the population to double (prediction) dt=70/percent of growth rate | 15 | |
4983650292 | ecumene | parts of the earth that have been inhabited | 16 | |
4983650293 | epidemiological transition model | distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition model stage 1- famine, wild animal attacks stage 2-infectious diseases ex: malaria stage 3 and 4 are degenerative and human created diseases ex: cancer, heart disease, old age stage 5- reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases | 17 | |
4983650294 | eugenics | government polices designed to favor one racial sector over others ex: Nazi, Hitler | 18 | |
4983650295 | forced migration | forced to leave because of government polices or natural disasters | 19 | |
4983650296 | gendered space | areas or regions designed for men or women ex: areas where men rule over woman | 20 | |
4983650297 | gravity model | a mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them | 21 | |
4983650298 | human capital | the value of a person to society | 22 | |
4983650299 | infant mortality rate | the total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1,000 live births in a society | 23 | |
4983650300 | intercontinental migration | migration within a continent ex: moving from USA to Canada | 24 | |
4983650301 | internal migration | movement within a country Ex: moving from illinois to california | 25 | |
4983650302 | international migration and refugees | people fleeing from their country and crossing borders | 26 | |
4983650303 | interregional migration | migration between regions | 27 | |
4983650304 | intervening opportunity | the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away ex: car breaks down and they decide to live in that town | 28 | |
4983650305 | J-curve | a growth curve that depicts exponential growth | 29 | |
4983650306 | life expectancy | a figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live | 30 | |
4983650308 | migratory movement | movement that consists of one person migrating from one place to another | 31 | |
4983650310 | neo-malthusian | support thomas mathus's views in the present, advocacy of population control programs to ensure enough resources for future populations | 32 | |
4983650311 | periodic movement | movement that involves temporary recurrent relocation ex: military, college | 33 | |
4983650313 | physiologic population density | the number of people per square unit of arable land | 34 | |
4983650315 | population density | measurement of the number of people per given unit of land | 35 | |
4983650316 | population explosion | the rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century, attended by ever shorter doubling times and accelerating rates of increase ex: post world war | 36 | |
4983650317 | population projection | estimates of future population size, age, and sex composition based on current data | 37 | |
4983650318 | population pyramid | a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex | 38 | |
4983650319 | push factors | encouragement for people to move from the region that they live in ex: genocide, dictatorship, environmental problems | 39 | |
4983650320 | pull factors | reasons that attract people to a new region ex: well paying jobs, preferable weather conditions | 40 | |
4983650321 | rate of natural increase | crude death rate- crude birthrate | 41 | |
4983650322 | refugee | a person who has been forced to migrate and cannot return due of fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion | 42 | |
4983650323 | rural urban migration | migration between rural and urban areas | 43 | |
4983650324 | s- curve | leveling off an exponential, J-shaped curve when a rapidly growing population exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment and ceases to grow | 44 | |
4983650325 | sex ratio | the proportion of males to females in a population | 45 | |
4983650328 | stage 1 | low growth; high death and birth rates leads to a population that varies overtime with little long term growth | 46 | |
4983650329 | stage 2 | rapidly declining death rates high birth rates high growth | 47 | |
4983650330 | stage 3 | moderate growth significant natural increase declining birth rates and low death rates | 48 | |
4983650331 | stage 4 | low growth stationary stage low birth and death rate | 49 | |
4983650332 | stage 5 | Very low birth rates low death rates. Natural decrease. Japan and Europe. | 50 | |
4983650333 | standard of living | quality of life based on the possion of necessities and luxuries that make life easier | 51 | |
4983650334 | step mirgration | long distance migration done in stages | 52 | |
4983650335 | sustainability | being able to meet the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs | 53 | |
4983650336 | thomas malthus | believed that population was exponential and food supply was linear | 54 | |
4983650337 | transhumance | seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures | 55 | |
4983650338 | voluntary migration | movement in which people relocated in response to perceived opportunity, not because they are forced to move | 56 | |
4983650339 | zero population growth | when the birth rates equals the death rate | 57 | |
5023138373 | Distribution | How things are spread across an area | 58 | |
5023138374 | Agricultural density | Number of farmers per unit of arable land | 59 | |
5023138375 | RNI/NIR | (CBR-CDR)/10 | 60 | |
5023138376 | Boserup | Anti Malthusian. Humans will always find a way. Necessity breeds ingenuity. | 61 | |
5023138377 | TFR | Number of children a woman is expected to give birth too in her lifetime. | 62 | |
5023138378 | Replacement Level MDC | TFR 2.1 | 63 | |
5023138380 | Fecundity | Years in which a woman is able to conceive 15-45 | 64 | |
5023138381 | Expansive or pro-natalist population policy | Countries that encourage pop growth. Denmark | 65 | |
5023138382 | Anti-Natalist or Restrictive population policy | Countries that want to limit population growth. China one child policy | 66 | |
5023318393 | Immigration | Migrants entering a country | 67 | |
5023323061 | Emmigration | Migrants leaving a country | 68 | |
5023364497 | Ravenstein's Laws of Migration | Laws that show patterns of migration. For example most migration is rural to urban. Young males are the most likely migrants. Most migration takes place in steps. | 69 | |
5023370118 | Zelinsky's Migration Transition Model | Overlay of the DTM. Where people are migrating based on development. 1 not much moving. 2 most likely to be international 3 & 4 mostly internal | 70 | |
5023378022 | Remittances | Guest workers and migrants who send money back home to help your family. Large part of the economy typically in the receiving country. | 71 | |
5023378023 | Guest Workers | people legally working in countries on a visa to fill a labor need. | 72 | |
5023384994 | Intervening Obstacles | Something that prevents you from getting to your intended destination. Great Wall of China. Border patrol. Checking Passports. | 73 |
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