AP Test Flashcards

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