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| 8764159069 | demography | the study of statistics such as births, deaths, and income (ex. USA's CBR is 13) | 0 | |
| 8764160467 | ecumene | term used by geographers that means inhabited land (permanent home) | 1 | |
| 8764160468 | population agglomerations | an extended town or city area and any suburbs linked by the continuous urban area (Metro Atlanta) | 2 | |
| 8764161405 | doubling time | the period of time required for a quantity to double in size or value (it take 78 years for the US population to double) | 3 | |
| 8764162721 | j-curve | the trend of a country's trade balance following a devaluation under a set of assumptions |  | 4 |
| 8764162722 | carrying capacity | an environments maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment (amount of people an environment can maintain) | 5 | |
| 8764166613 | sustainability (replacement fertility) | the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely (solar energy) | 6 | |
| 8764166614 | population pyramid | a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex |  | 7 |
| 8764168147 | cohort | a group of people banded together or treated as a group (married women are cohorts of other married women) | 8 | |
| 8764168148 | sex ratio | the proportional distribution of the sexes in a population aggregate (there's a 1.11 male(s)/female ratio between the ages of 0-14) | 9 | |
| 8764176839 | dependency ratio | the number of people <15 and >64, compared to the number of people active in the work force (the dependency ratio of georgia in 2015 was 49.4) |  | 10 |
| 8764178199 | longevity rate | the average number of years an individual can be expected to live (the average person in the USA is supposed to live to be 78.74 years old) | 11 | |
| 8764178200 | standard of living | the degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community (three meals a day, a home, and clothes) | 12 | |
| 8764179272 | population densities | a measure of the number of organisms that make up a population in a defined area (Georgia's population density is 165/sq mi) | 13 | |
| 8764180326 | contraception | term for the use of a number of devices that can prevent impregnation during intercourse (ex. condoms, birth control pills) | 14 | |
| 8764182178 | demographic transition model | the four stages showing the process of change in a society's population from a condition of crude birth and death rates and rate of natural increase, and a higher total population |  | 15 |
| 8764182179 | natural increase rate | the percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate (USA's NIR is 5.45) | 16 | |
| 8764184314 | s-curve | a curve that depicts logistic growth; in the shape of an S |  | 17 |
| 8764185499 | zero population growth | a decline in the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero (the country doesn't gain population?) | 18 | |
| 8764186524 | demographic momentum | the tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline |  | 19 |
| 8764186525 | thomas malthus | an English economist first to argue that the world's rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food population (he found out we would eventually run out of food) | 20 | |
| 8764187659 | overpopulation | to fill a country with an excessive number of people, straining available resources (India) | 21 | |
| 8764187660 | maladaptation | a trait that is more harmful than it has become helpful (people adapt to their surroundings can impact the environment negatively) | 22 | |
| 8764191723 | neo-malthusian | a view advocating population control, especially by contraception |  | 23 |
| 8764191724 | natalism | a belief that promotes human reproduction (pro-natalist policy encourages population growth) | 24 | |
| 8764194878 | total fertility rate | the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years (the TFR in the USA is 1.84) | 25 | |
| 8764196076 | diffusion of fertility control (contraception) | the spread of birth control in an area (anti-natalist policy) |  | 26 |
| 8764197538 | gendered space | where genders are separated into different places (public restrooms) |  | 27 |
| 8764197539 | koppen system | climate classification |  | 28 |
| 8764201396 | epidemiological transition model | a distinctive cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition |  | 29 |
| 8764201397 | demographic equation | the formula that calculates population change; found by doing CBR minus CDR plus (or minus) net migration |  | 30 |
| 8764204767 | ravenstein's law of migration | the process of absorption where people immediately surround a rapidly growing town which are filled with migrants (most Cuban immigrants come to Florida because it's close) | 31 | |
| 8764205846 | emigration/immigration | emigrate is when someone is exiting the country to live in another one, and immigrate means some one is entering the country (my parents immigrated to the United States from Russia and Ukraine) | 32 | |
| 8764205847 | net migration | the net total of migrants during the period; the total number of immigrants less the annual number of emigrants (more people immigrate to the US from Asia) |  | 33 |
| 8764208319 | lee's migration model | ability to go to a place in terms of time, money, distance (transportation) |  | 34 |
| 8764208320 | push-pull factors | when people move they move because something in their hometown was disrupting (pushing) them away, and they move the place they move to an attractive region (pulling) them towards that place (my mom and I moved to Kennesaw because we knew the area well) | 35 | |
| 8764211450 | intervening opportunity/obstacle | the presence of a closer opportunity that greatly diminishes to go where family have already found success (a family on the west coast found work on the east coast so they moved) | 36 | |
| 8764212898 | place utility | the desirability and usefulness of a place to an individual or to a groups such as a family (Costcos are built near high-income families) | 37 | |
| 8764212899 | gravity model | predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it |  | 38 |
| 8764215157 | reilly's law of retail gravitation | allows us to draw trade area boundaries around cities using the distance between the cities and the population of each city |  | 39 |
| 8764217449 | chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there (Donald Trump wants to end chain migration) | 40 | |
| 8764218796 | remittance | the action of sending money in payment (a customer sends money in the mail when a bill is received) | 41 | |
| 8764218797 | step migration | less extreme migrations from a persons place of origin to final destination (moving from an urban area to a suburban area) | 42 | |
| 8764220329 | transmigration | the relocation of people away from overpopulated regions to less crowded areas (Indonesia has a policy of moving people away from Java) | 43 | |
| 8764220330 | transhumance | seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures (sheep migration as the seasons change for better climate) | 44 | |
| 8764223454 | forced/voluntary migration | forced migration is a negative form of migration, often caused by persecution or exploitation (hurricane Katrina) and voluntary migration is migration based on one's free will (moving from Georgia to New York for no real reason other than to explore new places) | 45 | |
| 8764223455 | refugee | a person who has been forced to leave there country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disasters (Jews during WW2) | 46 | |
| 8764223456 | periodic movement | a movement that involves temporary, recurrent relocation (attending college) | 47 | |
| 8764225838 | cyclic movement (circulation) | short term, repetitive movements that recur on a regular bases (going to work everyday) | 48 | |
| 8764225839 | activity space | the area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity (place where you go to work, go grocery shopping, and eat) | 49 | |
| 8764225840 | brain drain | the emigration of highly educated workers from developing countries to developed countries (educated Chinese people coming to the US to help with companies) | 50 | |
| 8764227306 | quota laws | established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year (quota laws were established in the US in 1924) | 51 | |
| 8764229740 | migration transition model | change in a migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes (demographic transition) | 52 |
