ap human population migration Flashcards

4983650274	crude birth rate	annual number of live births per 1,000 people in the population	0
4983650275	crude death rate	the number of deaths per year per 1,000 people	1
4983650276	age distibution	aka population pyramid	2
4983650277	aritmetic population dnsity	the total number of people divided by the total land area, least accurate	3
4983650278	carrying capacity	largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support	4
4983650279	chain migration	a stream of people out of an area as first movers communicate with people back home stimulate others to follow later ex: mexicans moving to americans	5
4983650280	child mortality rate	number of children who die between their 1st-5th year of their life	6
4983650281	cohort	the age bracket in a population pyramid category of people with something in common, usually their age	7
4983650282	cyclic movement	movement has a closed route/repeated daily ex: commuting to work	8
4983650283	demographic equation	birth-death+net migration calculates population change	9
4983650284	demographic momentum	tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility declining because of their young age distribution once this happens a country moves to a different stage in the demographic transition model	10
4983650286	demographic transition model	a sequence of demographic changes in which a country moved from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time	11
4983650287	dependency ratio	number of people who are too young/too old to work compared to those who are the right age to work ex: europe has a high dependency ratio cause there is more old people	12
4983650289	disease diffusion	how disease spreads in a populations determines how disease spread ex: cholera	13
4983650290	distance decay	becomes less important/relevant further from origin	14
4983650291	doubling time	time it takes for the population to double (prediction) dt=70/percent of growth rate	15
4983650292	ecumene	parts of the earth that have been inhabited	16
4983650293	epidemiological transition model	distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition model stage 1- famine, wild animal attacks stage 2-infectious diseases ex: malaria stage 3 and 4 are degenerative and human created diseases ex: cancer, heart disease, old age stage 5- reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases	17
4983650294	eugenics	government polices designed to favor one racial sector over others ex: Nazi, Hitler	18
4983650295	forced migration	forced to leave because of government polices or natural disasters	19
4983650296	gendered space	areas or regions designed for men or women ex: areas where men rule over woman	20
4983650297	gravity model	a mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them	21
4983650298	human capital	the value of a person to society	22
4983650299	infant mortality rate	the total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1,000 live births in a society	23
4983650300	intercontinental migration	migration within a continent ex: moving from USA to Canada	24
4983650301	internal migration	movement within a country Ex: moving from illinois to california	25
4983650302	international migration and refugees	people fleeing from their country and crossing borders	26
4983650303	interregional migration	migration between regions	27
4983650304	intervening opportunity	the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away ex: car breaks down and they decide to live in that town	28
4983650305	J-curve	a growth curve that depicts exponential growth	29
4983650306	life expectancy	a figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live	30
4983650308	migratory movement	movement that consists of one person migrating from one place to another	31
4983650310	neo-malthusian	support thomas mathus's views in the present, advocacy of population control programs to ensure enough resources for future populations	32
4983650311	periodic movement	movement that involves temporary recurrent relocation ex: military, college	33
4983650313	physiologic population density	the number of people per square unit of arable land	34
4983650315	population density	measurement of the number of people per given unit of land	35
4983650316	population explosion	the rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century, attended by ever shorter doubling times and accelerating rates of increase ex: post world war	36
4983650317	population projection	estimates of future population size, age, and sex composition based on current data	37
4983650318	population pyramid	a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex	38
4983650319	push factors	encouragement for people to move from the region that they live in ex: genocide, dictatorship, environmental problems	39
4983650320	pull factors	reasons that attract people to a new region ex: well paying jobs, preferable weather conditions	40
4983650321	rate of natural increase	crude death rate- crude birthrate	41
4983650322	refugee	a person who has been forced to migrate and cannot return due of fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion	42
4983650323	rural urban migration	migration between rural and urban areas	43
4983650324	s- curve	leveling off an exponential, J-shaped curve when a rapidly growing population exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment and ceases to grow	44
4983650325	sex ratio	the proportion of males to females in a population	45
4983650328	stage 1	low growth; high death and birth rates leads to a population that varies overtime with little long term growth	46
4983650329	stage 2	rapidly declining death rates high birth rates high growth	47
4983650330	stage 3	moderate growth significant natural increase declining birth rates and low death rates	48
4983650331	stage 4	low growth stationary stage low birth and death rate	49
4983650332	stage 5	Very low birth rates low death rates. Natural decrease. Japan and Europe.	50
4983650333	standard of living	quality of life based on the possion of necessities and luxuries that make life easier	51
4983650334	step mirgration	long distance migration done in stages	52
4983650335	sustainability	being able to meet the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs	53
4983650336	thomas malthus	believed that population was exponential and food supply was linear	54
4983650337	transhumance	seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures	55
4983650338	voluntary migration	movement in which people relocated in response to perceived opportunity, not because they are forced to move	56
4983650339	zero population growth	when the birth rates equals the death rate	57
5023138373	Distribution	How things are spread across an area	58
5023138374	Agricultural density	Number of farmers per unit of arable land	59
5023138375	RNI/NIR	(CBR-CDR)/10	60
5023138376	Boserup	Anti Malthusian. Humans will always find a way. Necessity breeds ingenuity.	61
5023138377	TFR	Number of children a woman is expected to give birth too in her lifetime.	62
5023138378	Replacement Level MDC	TFR 2.1	63
5023138380	Fecundity	Years in which a woman is able to conceive 15-45	64
5023138381	Expansive or pro-natalist population policy	Countries that encourage pop growth. Denmark	65
5023138382	Anti-Natalist or Restrictive population policy	Countries that want to limit population growth. China one child policy	66
5023318393	Immigration	Migrants entering a country	67
5023323061	Emmigration	Migrants leaving a country	68
5023364497	Ravenstein's Laws of Migration	Laws that show patterns of migration. For example most migration is rural to urban. Young males are the most likely migrants. Most migration takes place in steps.	69
5023370118	Zelinsky's Migration Transition Model	Overlay of the DTM. Where people are migrating based on development. 1 not much moving. 2 most likely to be international 3 & 4 mostly internal	70
5023378022	Remittances	Guest workers and migrants who send money back home to help your family. Large part of the economy typically in the receiving country.	71
5023378023	Guest Workers	people legally working in countries on a visa to fill a labor need.	72
5023384994	Intervening Obstacles	Something that prevents you from getting to your intended destination. Great Wall of China. Border patrol. Checking Passports.	73