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| 5274371663 | age distribution | the portion of insividuals of different ages within a population. The distribution of age across a population. | 0 | |
| 5274371664 | agricultural density | the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture | 1 | |
| 5274371665 | arithmetic density | the total number of people divided by the total land area | 2 | |
| 5274371666 | cairo conference | took place in November 1943. a meeting of allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill and chiang Kai shek in Egypt to define the allies goals with respect to the war against Japan. they announced their intention to seek Japan's unconditional surrender and to strip Japan of all territory it gained since world war 1. | 3 | |
| 5274371667 | census | a complete enumeration of a population (enumeration means a complete ordered listing of all the items in a collection) | 4 | |
| 5274371668 | carrying capactiy | the number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container | 5 | |
| 5274371669 | child mortality rate | the death of infants and children under the age of five between the age of one month to four years | 6 | |
| 5274371670 | contraception | birth control | 7 | |
| 5274371671 | cornucopians | someone who believes that continued progress and provision of material items for mankind can be met by similarly continued advances in technology | 8 | |
| 5274371672 | demographic transition | the process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase and a higher total population | 9 | |
| 5274371673 | demography | the scientific study of population characteristics | 10 | |
| 5274371674 | crude birth rate | the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in society | 11 | |
| 5274730502 | crude death rate | the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society | 12 | |
| 5274371675 | demographic equation | an equation that summarizes the amount of growth or decline in a population within country during a particular time period taking into account both natural increase and net migration | 13 | |
| 5274371676 | dependency ratio | the number of people under the age of 15 and over 64. compares to the number of people in the labor force. | 14 | |
| 5274371677 | doubling time | the number of years needed to double a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase | 15 | |
| 5274371678 | ecumene/non ecumene | ecumene- the portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement non ecumene-the portion of earths surface that is uninhabited or only temporarily inhabited | 16 | |
| 5274371679 | epidemiological transition | distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition | 17 | |
| 5274371680 | infant mortality rate | the total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society | 18 | |
| 5274371681 | j-curve | This is when the projection population shows exponential growth sometime shaped as a J curve. This is important because if the population grows exponentially our resource use will go up exponentially as well as a greater demand food and services | 19 | |
| 5274371682 | life expectancy rate | the average number of years an individual can be expected to life | 20 | |
| 5274371683 | Malthus, thonas | one of the first to argue that the worlds population increase was far outrunning the development of food population. | 21 | |
| 5274371684 | natalism | pro-encourages child bearing con-wants limited number of children per couple | 22 | |
| 5274371685 | natural increase rate | the percentage growth of a population in a year | 23 | |
| 5274371686 | neomalthusians | theory that states that population growth is exponential and that human population growth can outstrip its food resources if not held in check with artificial birth control measures | 24 | |
| 5274371687 | overpopulation | the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living | 25 | |
| 5274371688 | physiological density | the number of people per unit of arable land | 26 | |
| 5274371689 | population agglomerations | a cluster of people living in the same area | 27 | |
| 5274371690 | population center (of a region) | where most of the population is located | 28 | |
| 5274371691 | population pyramid | a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and gender | 29 | |
| 5274371692 | replacement fertility | the total fertility rate at which women would have only enough children to replace themselves and their partner | 30 | |
| 5274371693 | s-curve | a curve that depicts logistic growth, shape of an s | 31 | |
| 5274371694 | sex ratio | the number of males per 100 females in the population | 32 | |
| 5274371695 | Total fertility rate | the average number of children a woman will have throughout her child bearing years | 33 | |
| 5274371696 | Zero population growth | a decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equal zero | 34 | |
| 5274371697 | activity space | the space within which daily activities occur | 35 | |
| 5274371698 | brain drain/gain | brain drain-large scale emigration by talented people. brain gain- opposite of brain drain, opening up new opportunities and bringing business experience and special skills | 36 | |
| 5274371699 | chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | 37 | |
| 5274371700 | circulation | short term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a daily basis | 38 | |
| 5274371701 | diaspora | the scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs | 39 | |
| 5274371702 | emigration/immigration | emigration- movement of people outside of their population immigration- movement of people inside a place | 40 | |
| 5274371703 | forced/voluntary migration | forced- movement that is forced because of reasons like war economic poverty voluntary- have the choice to move usually not moving out because of war or poverty they have a choice | 41 | |
| 5274371704 | guest worker | a term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of northern and Western Europe usually from southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa in search of a higher paying job | 42 | |
| 5274371705 | internal migration/international migration | internal migration-permanent movement with a particular country international migration-permanent movement from one country to another | 43 | |
| 5274371706 | intervening obstacle/oppurtunity | intervening obstacle- an environment or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration intervening opportunity- the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away | 44 | |
| 5274371707 | migration transition | a 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 | 45 | |
| 5274371708 | migration stream | a constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination | 46 | |
| 5274371709 | migration selectivity | only people exhibiting certain characteristics in a population choosing to migrate | 47 | |
| 5274371710 | mobility | All types of movement from one location to another | 48 | |
| 5274371711 | net migration | The difference between the levels of immigration and the levels of emigration | 49 | |
| 5274371712 | periodic movement | temporary recurrent relocation, for example college attendance or military service | 50 | |
| 5274371713 | push/pull factors | push-negative conditions and perceptions that cause people to leave their homes and migrate to a new place pull-positive conditions and perceptions that attract people to new locations | 51 | |
| 5274371714 | ravensteins law | Most migrants move only a short distance. Migration proceeds step by step. migrants going long distances generally go by preference Each current of migration produces a compensating counter current Natives of town are less migratory for than those of rural areas Females are more migratory then males Most migrants are adult Large towns Grow more by migration than by natural increase migration increase in volume as industries and commerce develop and transport improves The major direction of migration is from the agricultural areas to the centers of industry the major causes of migration are economic | 52 | |
| 5274371715 | refugee | A person who is forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return because of fear of persecution because of their race religion nationality membership in a social group or political opinion | 53 | |
| 5274371716 | remittance | The money,migrant. send back to family and friends in their home countries often cash for'ing an important part of economy in many poorer countries | 54 | |
| 5274371717 | step migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages | 55 | |
| 5274371718 | time contract workers | immigrant recruited for a fixed period to work | 56 | |
| 5274371719 | transhumance | the seasonal migration of live stock between mountains and lowland pastures | 57 | |
| 5274371720 | urbanization/suburbanization/counterurbanization | urbanization-an increase in the percentage and in then number of people living in urban settlements suburbanization-The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the world urban fringe Counter urbanization-net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries | 58 |
