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| The area in which you travel on a daily basis |
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| Number of farmers per area of farmland |
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| Antinatalist Population Policy |
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| Restrictive policy that discourages people from having babies |
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| Land that can be used for agriculture |
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| Number of people per area |
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| Net out-migration of the most educated individuals from a region |
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| Max number of people a region can reasonably sustain |
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| Pablo moves, and contact his cousins back in Mexico, and the the whole Gonzalez family moves to his location based on what he says |
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| Group of people usually classified by age. Ex: Teenagers |
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| Number of lives births per 1000 people over a year |
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Movement made on a daily day basis that involves a very short move to and from one's home.
Like me, I go to school to home. Errday of da school week. |
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| Demographic Accounting Equation |
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| Equation used for evaluating population change on global and sub global levels. At global level, the CBR and CDR are the only two factors in the equation of change, At the sub global level, immigration and emigration are taken into account. |
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| Phenomenon of growing population size even after replacement-level fertility has been reached. This occurs when the base of the population pyramid is so wide that the generation of parents will take time to cycle out before zero growth occurs. |
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| Study of population characteristics, transitions, and projections |
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| Measurement in which the number of people unable to work because of age is compared with the number of workers in society |
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| Removal of salt from saltwater to make potable drinking water |
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| Spread of a particular phenomenon across a given space |
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| Number of years it will take for a population to double in size |
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| Portion of the earth's surface that is habitable for humans |
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| Movement out of a country |
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| Center, or most intensely affect region, of an outbreak or disaster |
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| Disease spread acutely over a localized area |
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| 19th century geographer who wrote essays outlining 11 generalizations of migration, some of which still apply today, whereas others have changed since he wrote them during the Industrial Revolution in England |
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| Principal critic of Malthusian theory who argued that overpopulation could be solved by increasing the number of subsistence farmers |
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| Eugenic Population Policy |
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Policy that encourages some groups of people to have babies and discriminates against other groups, discouraging their reproduction.
Think Adolf Hitler. :P |
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| Growth that is compounded, like interest in a bank account; contrast with linear (arithmetic, or regular) growth, which does not increase in rate |
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| Ability to conceive a child |
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| In response to restrictive population policies, families kill their female infants so they can try to have male babies |
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| Reproductive behavior in a population leading to births |
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| First Agricultural Revolution |
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| Occurred 10,000 to 12,000 years ago when humans first developed the ability to remain in a settlement and domesticate crops and animals. Led to the development of cities |
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| Negative impact that distance has on spatial interaction, including communication and travel |
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| Number of births per 1000 women in a fecund range over a year |
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| Evidenced by a population pyramid showing a higher number of older people in its projection than younger working age people. The pyramid is top heavy. |
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| Migrant who is temporarily permitted to stay in a country only to work |
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| Human immunodeficiency virus is the onset of what turns into the most acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. A global pandemic, outbreaks are most acute in Africa and Asia. |
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| Movement into a country or region |
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| Began in England around 1700s and later diffused in an eastward direction throughout Europe and to the USA. Saw the development of factory-based economics and urban migration at a large scale. Coincided with the 2nd agricultural revolution and high population growth rates. |
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| "Back bone" of a society, including communication, transportation, and other such maintenance structures |
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| Number of children under the age of 1 to die per 1000 births over a year |
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| Internally Displaced Person |
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| Another name for an international refugee, someone who is forced from home but remains within the country |
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| Refugees who flee their country and move to another country |
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| Internal migration among particular regions in a country |
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| Barrier encountered on a journey that prevents or interferes with getting to the planned final destination |
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| New opportunity that arises along a journey that is more attractive to the person making the journey and diminishes the attractiveness of the final destination |
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| Refugees who abandon their homes but remain in their country to escape persecution |
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| Internal migration within a particular region such as a suburb to an inner city |
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| Occurs when a migrant is forced to moved because of abuse, war, or similar negative circumstances against their will |
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| Principal critic of Malthusian theory who argued that overpopulation was the fault of unchecked capitalism and unequal distribution of resources, leaving some places unable to care for their people |
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| Average number of years a person is expected to live |
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| Growth that is regular and not compounded over time. The growth remains at a steady pace, rather than increasing in pace over time |
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| Growth that is regular and not compounded over time. The growth remains at a steady pace, rather than increasing in pace over time |
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| Period in stage 2 of the demographic transition model when lifesaving medical technology drastically reduces the CBR, leading to longer life and higher rates on natural increase |
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| Movement of a person across an administrative border, the move is intended to be permanent |
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| Combination of factors that predict a person's likelihood to migrate based on factors like age, gender, and education |
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| Migration Streams and Counter Streams |
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| In a migration stream migrants are moving from a place of origin to a destination. When the original flow of migrants produces an opposite slow of returning migrants, a counter stream occurs. |
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| Death-related activity in a population |
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| Contemporary believers in Thomas Malthus's original ideas. They call for sustainable population growth to be achieved through birth control teachings and regional attention to birth patterns |
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| Occurs when the number of immigrants is larger than the number of emigrants |
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| Occurs when the number of emigrants exceeds number of immigrants |
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| Restrictive, antinatalist policy in China that aimed at immediately reducing China's birth rate to replacement level and below |
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| Occurs when a region exceeds its carrying capacity. This is difficult to measure because of changing technology and environmental issues that continually alter the carrying capacity |
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| Disease spread acutely over a large or worldwide |
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| Number of people per area of farmland |
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| Degree to attractiveness of a place to a migrant |
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| Exponential, unprecedented growth in human population size over the last three centuries |
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| Often called age-sex-pyramids, a population pyramid shows the distribution of ages and genders in a particular year |
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| Pronatalist Population Policy |
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| Expansive policy that encourages more live births in a population |
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| Factor that attracts a migrant to a region, such as good schools or nice weather |
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| Factor that causes a migrant to move our of a region such as high taxes or poor schools. |
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| Natural Growth rate of a population which is CBR - CDR expressed as a percentage. A positive RNI indicates a growing population, exc. |
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| Sum of money sent by a migrant to his or her family back home |
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| Replacement-level fertility |
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| Decay of once bustling factory based economy regions of the NE USA |
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| Level of geographic area being investigated, at a very large scale. Ex: Large scale-neighborhood Small scale-World |
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| Form of the cyclic movement when a persons moves temporarily because of change in season |
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| number of males to 100 females |
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| Second Agricultural Revolution |
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| Coincided with the Industrial Revolution in England and a higher population growth rate, and saw the development of the improved sanitation storage and fertilization techniques allowing for greater food output |
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| Reduction of the friction of distance and distance decay effects because of improved transportation and communication technology. |
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| Exchange of ideas, people, money and products among various places |
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| Long migration that occurs as a journey or smaller steps from one place to another until the destination is reached |
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| Growth of the economy in the sunny regions of the southern USA that developed as the dominance of the factory-based economy in the NE USA decreased |
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| He wrote An Esay on the Principles of Population during the British Industrial Revolution that predicted the food production would be outpaced by population growth rates. He warned of negative checks such as famine and called for positive checks such as birth control. |
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| Pastoral nomadism in which people herd animals from high to low, mountains to pastures |
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| Pertaining to the city, as opposed to rural which is farmlands |
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| Immigration legislation that limited the number of people from any one country and discriminated against Asians and favored Europeans immigrants |
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| United Nations Population Conferences |
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| United Nations conferences held in 1974, 1984, 1994, and 2004 to address population. Empower women is the new approach decided. |
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