AP Vocab Flashcards

11518527589	medical geography	The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective. Among other things, medical geography looks at sources, diffusion routes, and distributions of diseases.	0
11518527590	chemical insults	factors, such as drugs, dangerous gases, and harmful liquids, that negatively affect human health	1
11518527591	physical insults	traumatic events, such as accidents, shock, or radiation poisoning, that negatively affect human health	2
11518527592	psychosocial insults	positive or negative effects of crowding, anxiety, love, and sense of belonging	3
11518527593	habitat	the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.	4
11518527594	behavior	observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals	5
11518527595	epidemic	a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.	6
11518527596	Pandemic	Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.	7
11518527597	agent	an organism that causes a disease, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, or flukes	8
11518527598	host	An organism on which a parasite lives.	9
11518527599	Vector	a disease agent is trasmited through rats, mosquitos	10
11518527600	Cyclical movement	movement from home for a short period of time; commuting, seasonal, nomadism	11
11518527601	periodic movement	motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same	12
11518527602	primitive migration	human movements that occur when a population runs out of food	13
11518527603	free migration	when people move on their own without push from the government	14
11518527604	Forced Migration	Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.	15
11518527605	human trafficking	The illegal trade of human beings, a modern-day form of slavery, for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or involuntary military combat.	16
11518527606	Child Soldiers	Youth that are either forced or impelled to serve as fighters or members of a militia.	17
11518527607	refuge	a safe place	18
11518527608	Ravenstein's Laws	a series of laws that describe voluntary migration patterns	19
11518527609	Distance Decay	the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction	20
11518527610	push-pull model	A model of migration that argues that people are pushed from their homes by certain negative factors and pulled to other locations by positive qualities.	21
11518527611	factor mobility model	an economic model that argues that differences in wage rates cause people to migrate from low-wage areas to high-wage areas	22
11518527612	human capital model	a theory of migration that argues that people move not just for macroeconomic reasons but also for individual reasons	23