9950475458 | Antinatalist Population Policies | Encouraging couples to limit the number of children they have | 0 | |
9950477089 | Arithmetic Density | Number of people in a given unit area | 1 | |
9950477090 | Baby Boomers | Individuals born post WWII (between 1946 and 1964) | 2 | |
9950479792 | Baby Bust | Period of time when the fertility rates in the United States dropped. | 3 | |
9950481973 | Cairo Plan | Policies that focuses on giving women greater social and economic control of their lies. (1994 UN) | 4 | |
9950482023 | Carrying Capacity | The number of people an area can sustain without critically straining its resource base. | 5 | |
9950486656 | Chain Migration | Describes migrant flows from a common organ to the same destination. Usually families. | 6 | |
9950486657 | Channelized Migration | The flows between a particular organ and destination are larger than would normally be the case. Not family or kinship ties. | 7 | |
9950488186 | Cohort | Group of people who share common, temporal demographic experience; typically people of similar age range. | 8 | |
9950491730 | "Cornucopians" | Believe that with increasing populations come increasing opportunities for innovation | 9 | |
9950493525 | Crude Birth Rate (CBR) | Number of live births in a single year for every 1000 people in population. | 10 | |
9950495588 | Crude Death Rate (CDR) | Number of deaths in a country per 1000 people | 11 | |
9950499116 | Demographic Equation | summarizes the amount of growth or decline in a population during a certain period of time; births - deaths (+ or -) migration to the area | 12 | |
9950504396 | Demographic Momentum | Tendency of a population to continue to grow in spite of stringent population policies or rapid fertility decline because of the large number of individuals in their childbearing years. | 13 | |
9950504397 | Demographic Transition Model | ![]() | 14 | |
9950508650 | Demographic Transition | Stage 1- High birth and death rates and little to no growth Stage 2- birth rates high, death rates drop, and population growth is rapid Stage 3- Birth rates begin to drop Stage 4 and 5- population growth is stable or negative (in stage 5) | 15 | |
9950510390 | Dependency Ratio | A measure of the economic impact of younger and older cohorts on the economically productive members of a population | 16 | |
9950510391 | Doubling Time | The amount of time it takes a particular population to double in time | 17 | |
9950510392 | Ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface that is inhabited by humans | 18 | |
9950516346 | Global Population distribution patterns | Near oceans, has high land fertility and mild climates, and urban regions are most populated | 19 | |
9950520686 | global refugee patterns | Boarders are more constricted with refugees since terrorists attacks and it protects against people refugees and asylum seekers. | 20 | |
9950520687 | guest workers | Individuals who migrate temporarily to take advantage of job opportunities in other countries. | 21 | |
9950524199 | HIV/AIDs | Disease that deters the birth rates and fertility rates | 22 | |
9950524200 | Illegal Immigration | Unforced migrants (undocumented workers) | 23 | |
9950528150 | Infant Mortality | Number of deaths during the first year of life per thousand live births. | 24 | |
9950530993 | Internal Migration: History of the US | Wave 1- Migrants of colonization Wave 2- 19400s-1970s: African Americans migrating within America Wave 3- Post WWII-now: Movement into the Sun Belt | 25 | |
9950530994 | Internally Displaced Persons | People who have had to leave their homes because of conflict, but do not leave their country to seek safety. | 26 | |
9950533930 | Life Expectancy | Average number of years a person is expected to live | 27 | |
9950533931 | Migration | Movement to a new activity space or movement from one administrative region to another. | 28 | |
9950536762 | Mobility | Implies the ability to move from one place to another, either permanently or temporarily. | 29 | |
9950541562 | Natural Increase vs Natural Decrease | The difference between CBR and CDR indicates natural growth or decline within a population. | 30 | |
9950545132 | Neo-Malthusians | Believe population growth is a problem and advocate for zero population growth where migrants and population evens out. | 31 | |
9950548663 | Overpopulation vs underpopulation | Area does not have enough resources to to support the population living in it vs areas without enough people to fully exploit the local resource base. | 32 | |
9950548664 | Place Utility | benefits a place offers to pull people to that destination | 33 | |
9950554249 | Population Centroid of the United States | Geographic center of the United States. | 34 | |
9950554250 | Population Data | Includes all population data and sources include national organizations | 35 | |
9950560064 | Population Density | Crude density, also called arithmetic density is total number of people divided by the total land area. | 36 | |
9950560065 | Population Geography | Similar to demographic rates except patterns are studies from spatial perspectives. | 37 | |
9950563799 | Population Growth Rate | Country's growth rate is determined by its natural increase expressed as a percentage. | 38 | |
9950566983 | Population Growth since 1750 | Less developed regions have grown exponentially and more developed countries have barely grown | 39 | |
9950577074 | Population Pyramid | ![]() | 40 | |
9950580333 | Population Pyramid: US | ![]() | 41 | |
9950586239 | Pronatalist Population Policies | typically exist in countries where population is declining and involve providing incentives for omen to have children. | 42 | |
9950588420 | Ravenstein's Migration Laws | -migration flow generates usually generates a counterflow -Short distance migration -Long distances are usually big city destinations -Urban residents are less migratory than rural residents -Families are less likely to migrate. | 43 | |
9950590608 | Refugees | Individuals who cross national boundaries to seek safety and asylum | 44 | |
9950593194 | Reluctant and forced Migration | an individual migrates against his or her will. Individual reluctantly choses to move because of factors in their current location | 45 | |
9950593195 | Rust Belt | 1960s-1970s: Large members of white middle class Americans moved from older northeastern and midwestern cities to the South and West Coast for industrial jobs. | 46 | |
9950596763 | Sun Belt Migration | Movement towards Florida, Texas, California in the last several decades. | 47 | |
9950596764 | Sustainability | Using resources in a manner that supplies existing populations while not compromising availability of resources. | 48 | |
9950600001 | Thomas Malthus | (1798) Carrying capacity is limited by food availability. | 49 | |
9950601887 | Total Fertility Rate (TFR) | Average number of children a women will have during her childbearing years (age 15-49) | 50 | |
9950609610 | Voluntary Migration and Push-and-Pull Factors | Individual chooses to move either by factors drawing them to a place or pushing them away from their own home country. | 51 |
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