7396420146 | Ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. | 0 | |
7396420147 | Population Clusters | Western Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia Largest concentrations of population in these regions | 1 | |
7396420148 | Population Distribution Causes/consequences | populations tend to cluster around major water ways | 2 | |
7396420149 | Population Explosion | the expontential growth that has occurred over the past 100 years. | 3 | |
7396420150 | Demographic momentum | The tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline | 4 | |
7396420151 | J curve | exponential growth | 5 | |
7396420152 | Carrying Capacity | largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support | 6 | |
7396420153 | Overpopulation | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living. | 7 | |
7396420154 | Population density | Number of individuals per unit area | 8 | |
7396420155 | Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. | 9 | |
7396420156 | Physiological Density | the number of people per unit area of arable land | 10 | |
7396420157 | Agricultural Density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture | 11 | |
7396420160 | Crude Birth Rate (CBR) | annual number of births per 1000 people | 12 | |
7396420161 | Crude Death Rate (CDR) | annual number of deaths per 1000 people | 13 | |
7396420162 | Rate of Natural Increase | CBR-CDR the percentage by which a population grows in a year excludes migration | 14 | |
7396420163 | Demographic Equation | NIR = CBR - CDR INCLUDING NET MIGRATION | 15 | |
7396420164 | Doubling Time | The time required for a population to double in size | 16 | |
7396420165 | Mortality | death | 17 | |
7396420166 | Natality | Birth rate | 18 | |
7396420167 | Total Fertility Rate | The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years. | 19 | |
7396420170 | infant Mortality Rate | The number of infant deaths per 1,000 births. | 20 | |
7396420171 | Life Expectancy | A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live | 21 | |
7396420172 | Population Pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. | 22 | |
7396420173 | Dependency Ratio | The number of nonworking members compared to working members for a given population (0-14, 65 and up) | 23 | |
7396420174 | Sex Ratio | The number of males per 100 females in the population. | 24 | |
7396420175 | Age distribution | Percentage of the total population, or the population of each sex, at each age level. | 25 | |
7396420176 | Aging population | A population with a high proportion of elderly | 26 | |
7396420178 | Demographic Transition Theory | Movement from a high birth rate, high death rate to a low birth rate, low death rate. | 27 | |
7396420179 | Zero population growth | occurs when the birth rate equals the death rate | 28 | |
7396420180 | Overpopulation | too many people in one place for the resources available | 29 | |
7396420181 | Thomas Malthus | English economist: Said that population tends to increase more rapidly than food supplies | 30 | |
7396420182 | S Curve | refers to part of population curve where the population starts to stabilize | 31 | |
7396420183 | Epidemiological transition model | distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition | 32 | |
7396420184 | Pandemic | A global outbreak of an infectious disease | 33 | |
7396420185 | Pronatalist Population Policies | government policies that try to promote larger families and birth rates | 34 | |
7396420186 | Anti Natalist population policies | government policies that try to promote smaller families and a decline in birth rates | 35 | |
7396420187 | Migration | A movement from one country or region to another | 36 | |
7396420188 | Immigration | Migration to a new location | 37 | |
7396420189 | Emigration | Migration from a location | 38 | |
7396420190 | Migration Transition Model | corresponds to demographic transition model, shows how many people migrated over time | 39 | |
7396420191 | International Migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | 40 | |
7396420192 | Internal Migration | Permanent Movement within a particular country. | 41 | |
7396420193 | US Migration Patterns | four waves of people coming into the United States at certain times | 42 | |
7396420194 | Major historical migrations | slave trade, irish potato famine | 43 | |
7396420195 | Interregional Migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. only in large countries | 44 | |
7396420196 | Intraregional: Rural to Urban | movement from countryside to cities | 45 | |
7396420197 | Intraregional: Urban to suburbs | movement from cities to the surrounding smaller cities, suburbs creates growth of metro area | 46 | |
7396420198 | Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. | 47 | |
7396420199 | Chain migration | pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links | 48 | |
7396420200 | Step Migration | Migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination | 49 | |
7396420203 | Brain Drain | the loss of highly educated and skilled workers to other countries | 50 | |
7396420204 | Push Factors | factors that push people out of one place to another place (environmental disasters, wars, famine) | 51 | |
7396420205 | Pull Factors | Factors that induce people to move to a new location.Tend to be positive. Better economy, better environment, food | 52 | |
7396420206 | Migrant workers | people who move from one region to another in search of work | 53 | |
7396420207 | Forced migrations | people do not choose to leave. They are either forced to leave or have to leave for fear of death | 54 | |
7396420208 | Refugees | people who flee their homeland to seek safety elsewhere | 55 | |
7396420209 | Internally displaced persons | People who are forced to flee their home but stay within the country's borders | 56 | |
7396420210 | Asylym seekers | migrants that are seeking sanctuary from foreign governments from fear of persecution | 57 | |
7396420212 | Unauthorized Immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents | 58 | |
7396420214 | Ravenstein's characteristics of migrants | migrants tend to be young, childless, males | 59 |
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