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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: 1. Arithmetic Answer: the total number of people divided by the land area. Question: 2. Physiological Answer: the number of per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. Question: 4. NatalityAnswer: birth rate, the number of live births per year per population. Question: 5. MortalityAnswer: death rate, the number of deaths per year per thousand . Question: 6. Population Answer: a dramatic increase in world population since 1900. The element triggering this explosion has been a dramatic decrease in the death rate, particularly for infants and children, in most of the world. Question: 8. Demographic Answer: the process of change in a population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population. Question: 9. Zero population Answer: when the fertility rate ( measured as the average number of children born per woman between ages 15 to 44 years of age) or TFR is at 2.1 which is a stabilized population, one that does not increase or decrease. Question: 11. Population Answer: a bar graph representing the of population by age and sex. Question: 12. CohortAnswer: a of individuals who share a common temporal demographic experience; not necessarily bases only on age, but may also be defined based on criteria such as time of marriage or time of graduation; all individuals in a certain age range. Question: 13. DiasporaAnswer: scattered settlements of a national group living abroad. Question: 14. Gender Answer: culturally specific notions of what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman, are tied to how many children are produced by couples. Question: 16. Infant rateAnswer: the number of infants per 1,000 live who die before reaching one year of age. Question: 20. SustainabilityAnswer: the survival of a Question: 22. PandemicAnswer: a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a high proportion of the . Question: 23. Demographic Answer: summarizes the contribution made to population change over time by the combination of natural change (difference between births and deaths) and net migration (difference between in Question: 24. Dependency Answer: a simple measure of the number of economic dependents, old or young, that each 100 in the productive years (usually 15 Question: 25. Rate of increaseAnswer: the percentage growth of a in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. Question: 26. Doubling Answer: the number of years needed to double a population, a constant rate of natural increase. Question: 27. J-CurveAnswer: a curve depicting exponential or growth Question: 28. S-CurveAnswer: the horizontal bending or leveling of an or J-curve Question: 29. EcumeneAnswer: that part of the surface physically suitable for permanent human settlement; the permanently inhabited areas of the earth. Question: 30. OverpopulationAnswer: the number of people in an area the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living. Question: 31. UnderpopulationAnswer: circumstances of too few people to develop the resources of a country or region to improve the level of living of its inhabitants. Question: 32. Carrying Answer: the of people an area can support on a sustained basis given the prevailing technology. Question: 33. Population Answer: estimates of future population size, age, and sex based on current data. Question: 35. Demographic Answer: (population momentum) the tendency for population to continue despite stringent family planning programs because of a relatively high concentration of people in the childbearing years. Question: 36. GeodemographyAnswer: population geography, the study of the and ecological aspects of population, including density, distribution, fertility, gender, living standard, health, age, nutrition, mortality, and mobility. Question: 37. Push Answer: negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and to a new locale. Question: 38. Pull Answer: positive conditions and perceptions that effectively people to new locales from other areas. Question: 39. VoluntaryAnswer: permanent movement by choice. Question: 40. ForcedAnswer: permanent movement usually by cultural factors Question: 41. Transnational Answer: migrants who set up and/or work in more than one nation Question: 42. RefugeeAnswer: people who are forced to migrate from home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. Question: 43. Intercontinental Migration Answer: permanent movement from one to another. Question: 44. Interregional PatternAnswer: permanent movement from one region of a to another. Question: 45. Intraregional PatternAnswer: permanent movement within one region of a . Question: 46. rural to Answer: permanent movement from an agrarian sparsely populated region to a densely populated area. Question: 47. Place Answer: in human movement and migration studies, a measure of an individual’s perceived satisfaction for approval of a place in its social, economic, or attributes. Question: 48. Activity Answer: the space which daily activity occurs. Question: 49. Personal Answer: an invisible, usually irregular area around a person into which he or she does not admit others; situational and cultural variable. Question: 50. Space- time Answer: a diagram of the column of space and the of time within which our activities are confines by constraints of our bodily needs (eating, resting) and the means of mobility at our command Question: 51. Space- time Answer: the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a of improved communications and transportation systems Question: 52. Gravity Answer: a model that that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. Question: 53. Distance Answer: the diminishing in importance and disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance form its origin. Question: 54. Step Answer: migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for , from farm to nearby village and later to town and city. Question: 55. Chain Answer: migration of people to a location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. Question: 56. Intervening Answer: the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminished the attractiveness of sites away. Question: 57. Intervening Answer: an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that migration. Question: 58. Cyclic Answer: , for example: nomadic migration, that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally. Question: 59. Migratory Answer: movement involving millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances. Question: 60. Migration Answer: change in the migration pattern in a society that results from , population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. Question: 61. TranshumanceAnswer: the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and pastures. Question: 62. Internal Answer: permanent movement within a country. Question: 63. International Answer: permanent movement from one to another. Question: 64. MigrationAnswer: form of diffusion involving permanent move to a new location. |
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