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Agricultural Population Density
Number of Farmers divided by the arable land
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Arable Land
Land suitable for farming/agriculture
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Physiological Population Density
Population of a region / arable (farmable) land
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Arithmetic Population Density
Population of a region divided by total land area.
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Baby Boom
Temporary marked increase in the birth rate
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Census
A complete count of of a population
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Crude Birth Rate
Total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people in the society
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Crude Death Rate
Total number of deaths per 1,000 people in a society
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Dependency Ratio
Number of people too young or too old to work compared to workers
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More Developed Country (MDC)
Also known as a relatively developed country or a developed country, country that has progressed further along the development continuum
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Doubling Time
Number of years needed to double the population
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Ecumeme
The areas of earth occupied by human settlement
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Epidemiological Transition Model
The theory that says that there is a distinct cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition model. It can help explain how a country's population changes so dramatically.
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Industrial Revolution
Time during the 19th century, major improvements in manufacturing goals and delivering them to market
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Infant Mortality Rates
the number of infant deaths (under age 1) per 1000 live births
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Less Developed Countries (LDC)
Non-industrialized/poor countries.
Stage two, early three
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Life Expectancy
Average number of years an infant can expect to live
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Thomas Malthus
An English economist who was one of the first to argue that the world's population increase was far outrunning the development of food production
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Malthusian Theory
The theory that population grows faster than food supply
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Medical Revolution
Time during the late 20th countries, when medical technology from Europe and North America diffused to developing countries
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Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)
The percentage of annual growth in a population excluding migration.
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Neo-Malthusian
A belief that the world is characterized by scarcity and competition in which too many people fight for too few resources. Named for Thomas Malthus, who predicted a dismal cycle of misery, vice, and starvation as a result of human overpopulation
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Population Pyramids
A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
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Anti-Natalist Policies
Government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase
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Pro-Natalist Policies
Government policies to increase the rate of natural increase
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Sex Ratio
The number of males per 100 females in the population.
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Total Fertility Rate
The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years.
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Zero Population Growth
A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.
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Demography
The scientific study of population characteristics
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Overpopulation
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
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Population Center
An area of land where people are most dense, including East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe.
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Demographic Transition Model
A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time.
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Mobility
A general term covering all types of movement from one place to another
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Periodic movement
Movement - for example, college attendance or military service - that involves temporary, recurrent relocation
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Net migration
The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants
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Push Factors of Immigration
reasons people emigrate and leave their homes such as economic troubles, overcrowding, poverty
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Intraregional Migration
movement within a region
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Interregional Migration
Movement from one region to another
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Migration Transition
Change in migration patterns in a society caused by industrialisation, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition
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Gravity Model
Predicts interaction between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them.
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Migrant Workers
people, typically farmers, who move from place to place to harvest fruits and vegetables
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Refugee
a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion
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Asylum seeker
Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee
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brain drain
the loss of highly educated and skilled workers to other countries
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guest worker
a foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country
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intervening obstacle
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
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internal migration
permanent movement within the same country
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transhumance
The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
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Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
A set of 11 "laws" that can be organized into three groups: the reasons why migrants move, the distance they typically move, and their characteristics.
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migration selectivity
Only people exhibiting certain characteristics in a population choosing to migrate
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step migration
migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages
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chain migration
pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links
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activity space
The area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity
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urbanization
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
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Atlantic Slave Trade
the buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
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carrying capacity
Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
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Diaspora
A dispersion of people from their homeland
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Distribution
Description of locations on Earth's surface where populations live
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Immigration
Migration to a new location
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fertility
The production of offspring within a population
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Forced Migration
Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.
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Great Migration
movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
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infrastructure
Fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools
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internally displaced person
Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border
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Migration
Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.
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migration stream
the constant flow of migrants from one country into another country
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population composition
Structure of population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education
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Rural-urban migration
Permanent movement from rural area to the urban city area.
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S-curve
a curve that depicts growth; shape of an "S." The leveling off of a J-Curve exponential growth.
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Voluntary Migration
Permanent movement undertaken by choice.
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Pull Factors of Immigration
Reasons to migrate to a new area such as Economic Opportunity ($)
Jobs/ workers were needed
Land
Peace and stability
Freedom to make a better life
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degenerative disease
any disease in which deterioration of the structure or function of tissue occurs
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Maternal Mortality Rate
The number of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births
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