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| 101169799 | Cohort | A population group unified by a specific common characteristic, such as age, and subsequently treated as a statistical unit. | |
| 101169801 | Step Migration | migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city | |
| 101169802 | Intervening Opportunity | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. | |
| 101169803 | Intervening Obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. | |
| 101169804 | Forced Migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. | |
| 101169805 | Counter Migration | the return of migrants to the regions from which they earlier emigrated | |
| 101169806 | Net Migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | |
| 101169807 | Anchor Babies | a child born a U.S. citizen in order to facillitate immigration through family reunification under the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 | |
| 101169808 | Xenophobia | an irrational fear of foreigners or strangers | |
| 101169809 | Remittances | a transfer of money by a foreign worker to his or her home country | |
| 101169810 | Cyclic movement | movement that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally | |
| 101169811 | Nomads | people who wander from place to place | |
| 101169812 | External migration | migration across an international border | |
| 101169813 | Internal Migration | Permanent movement within a particular country. | |
| 101169814 | Why is tourism not considered to be a form of migration? | Tourism is not a permanent change therefore it is not migration. | |
| 101169815 | Agricultural density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. | |
| 101169816 | Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | |
| 101169817 | Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. | |
| 101169818 | Census | a period count of the population | |
| 101169819 | Crude Birth Rate (CBR) | the number of live births yearly per thousand people in a population | |
| 101169820 | Crude death rate (CDR) | The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people. | |
| 101169821 | Demographic Transition | change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates | |
| 101169822 | Demography | the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations | |
| 101169823 | Dependency Ratio | The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compares to the number of people active in the labor force. | |
| 101169824 | Doubling Time | the time required for a population to double in size | |
| 101169825 | Ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. | |
| 101169826 | Epidemiologic transition | Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition. | |
| 101169827 | Epidemiology | the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease | |
| 101169828 | Industrial Revolution | the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation | |
| 101169829 | Infant Mortality Rate( IMR) | the death rate during the first year of life | |
| 101169830 | Life Expectancy | an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities | |
| 101169831 | Medical Revolution | Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives. | |
| 101169832 | Natural Increase Rate(NIR) | The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. | |
| 101169833 | Overpopulation | too much population | |
| 101169834 | Pandemic | an epidemic that is geographically widespread | |
| 101169835 | Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | |
| 101169836 | Population Pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. | |
| 101169837 | Sex ratio | The number of males per 100 females in the population. | |
| 101169838 | Total Fertility Rate (TFR) | The number of children born to an average woman in a population during her entire reproductive life | |
| 101169839 | Zero Population Growth (ZPG) | when the birth rate equals the death rate | |
| 101169840 | Brain Drain | depletion or loss of intellectual and technical personnel | |
| 101169841 | Chain Migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | |
| 101169842 | Circulation | the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area | |
| 101169843 | Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. | |
| 101169844 | Emigration | migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) | |
| 101169845 | Floodplain | a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | |
| 101169846 | Forced Migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. | |
| 101169847 | Guest workers | Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs. | |
| 101169848 | Immigration | migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) | |
| 101169849 | International Migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | |
| 101169850 | Migration | a movement form one country to another, the movement of persons from one country or locality to another | |
| 101169851 | Migration transitions | Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. | |
| 101169852 | Mobility | the quality of moving freely | |
| 101169853 | Pull factor | Factor that induces people to move to a new location.( form what they hear) | |
| 101169854 | Push factor | factor, such as unemployment or the lack of freedom of speech, that makes people want to leave their country and move to another one( from what the see) | |
| 101169855 | Quotas | established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year | |
| 101169856 | 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. | |
| 101169857 | Undocumented immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents. | |
| 101169858 | Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. | |
| 101526558 | Bush fallow | burninng of bushes. which tend to grow more rapid then trees. | |
| 101526559 | forest fallow | burning of trees which tend to grow slower than bushes. | |
| 101526560 | Thomas Malthus | an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834) | |
| 101526561 | Population Growth Rate | a measure of how fast a given population grows(including be able to deacrease) | |
| 101526562 | demographic momentum | this is the tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution. This is important because once this happens a country moves to a different stage in the demographic transition model. | |
| 101526563 | carrying capacity | largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support | |
| 101526564 | Idi Amin | Dictator in Uganda from 1971-1977, killed over 800,000, exiled many ethnic groups from country, "Last King of Scotland" | |
| 101528764 | positive correlation | direct | |
| 101528765 | negative correlation | indirect | |
| 101528766 | cartogram | map in which some thematic mapping variable is substituted for land area (e.g., GDP) | |
| 101528767 | Demographic transition Model | A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time. | |
| 101528768 | concave | population growing | |
| 101528769 | Bulging | one age group is longer | |
| 101528770 | Rectangular | steady population | |
| 101528771 | Noticeably indented | War, Cohort died disappeard | |
| 101528772 | Stage one | High Stationary | |
| 101528773 | Stage two | Early Expansion | |
| 101528774 | Stage three | Late Expansion | |
| 101528775 | Stage four | Late Stationary | |
| 101528776 | Spatial distribution | physical location of geographic phenomena across space | |
| 101528777 | Ester boserup | Principal critic of Malthusian theory who argued that overpopulation could be solved by increasing the number of susistence farmers. | |
| 101528778 | Neo Malthusian | of or relating to Malthus or to his theory that population increases faster than its subsistence and that poverty results | |
| 101808148 | Neo | new | |
| 101808149 | Population clusters | East Asia, South Asia, Europe, Northeastern United States | |
| 101808150 | Political, Economic, and Environmental | 3 types of push and pull factors |
