Unit II: Population/Migration
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 study of population | demography |
| number of people per given unit of land | arithmetic density |
| number of people per arable land | physiological density |
| land suitable for cultivation | arable land |
| number of farmers per arable land | agricultural density |
| land that has continually been settled for thousands of years | ecumene |
| location of the largest population cluster in the world | East Asia |
| location of the largest population cluster in North America | Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada |
| world's population cluster that is urban in nature | Europe |
| graph that shows age cohorts of males and females | Population Pyramid |
| shape of a stable population on a population pyramid | Rectangle |
| percent of the population that is too young or old to work | Dependency Ratio |
| curve that demonstrates population growth over time | J Curve |
| curve that hypothetically shows the world's population leveling off | S Curve |
| CBR-CDR = NIR - (in migration - out migration) = | Demographic Equation |
| continent that is growing the fastest | Africa |
| continent that is growing the slowest | Europe |
| population policies that encourage people to have more children | Pro-natalist |
| number of years it takes for a population to increase 2x in size | Doubling Time |
| taken every ten years and is a count of the United States population | Census |
| average number of years a person lives | Life Expectancy |
| proposed that population growth would exceed food production | Malthus |
| country that the demographic transition was based on | England |
| stage in the DTM that signifies high growth | 2 |
| stage in the DTM that signifies moderate growth | 3 |
| stages in the DTM that signifies low growth | 1 & 4 |
| type of growth where the birth rate equals the death rate | Zero Population Growth |
| movement from a place | Emigration |
| movement to a place | Immigration |
| proposed that there is no such thing as over-population or resource depletion | Simon |
| too many people for the amount of available resources | Over-Population |
| CBR - CDR = | NIR |
| most people move internationally during this stage of the DTM | 2 |
| talented and well educated people that migrate from LDCs to MDCs | Brain-Drain |
| temporary workers that live in a foreign country | Guest Workers |
| a person who is forced to leave their homeland due to political persecution | Refugee |
| migration that takes place in a number of moves | Step Migration |
| movement of people from the same town in Europe to the same town in America | Chain Migration |
| three physical features that are intervening obstacles to migration | mountains, deserts, and oceans |
| movement from metropolitan to non-metropolitan areas | Conurbanization |
| largest type of movement of people in the world | Rural to Urban |
| seasonal movement of herd animals from low to high elevations | Transhumance |
| best way to decrease the birth rate regardless of cultural and economic factors | Keep girls in school longer |
| most people move within their own country during this stage of the DTM | 3 or 4 |
| most prevalent migration pull factor | Economic |
| most prevalent pull factor for the creative class | Environmental |
| migration within a region | Intraregional Migration |
| migration between regions | Interregional Migration |
| made the world's population dramatically increase starting in 1750 | Industrial Revolution |
| reason why LDCs increased dramatically in population after WWII | Diffusion of modern medicines and practices |
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