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My terms and definitions of vocab
Term | Definition |
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Age distribution | |
Carrying Capacity | |
Cohort | |
Demographic equation | |
Demographic momentum | Continued population increase despite reduced reproductive rates. |
Demographic regions | The ratio of the number of people who are either too old or young to provide for themselves to the number of people who must support them through their own labor. |
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 |
Dependency Ration | |
Diffusion of fertility control | |
Disease diffusion | |
Doubling time | |
Ecumene | |
Epidemiological Transition model | |
Gendered Space | |
Infant mortality rate | |
J-curve | |
Maladaptation | |
Malthus, Thomas | |
Mortality | |
Natality | |
Neo-Malthusian | |
Overpopulation | |
Population densities | |
Population distribution | |
Population projection | |
Population pyramid | |
Rate of Natural increase | |
S-curve | |
Sex ratio | |
Standard of Living | |
Sustainability | |
Underpopulation | |
Zero population growth | |
Activity space | |
Chain migration | |
Cyclic movement | |
Distance decay | |
Forced | |
Gravity model | |
Internal migration | |
Intervening opportunity | |
Intercontinental | |
Interregional | |
Rural-urban | |
Migratory movement | |
Periodic movement | |
Personal space | |
Place utility | |
Push-pull factors | |
Refugee | |
Space-time prism | |
Step migration | |
Transhumance | |
Transmigration | |
Voluntary |