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Unit 2 Vocabulary

Unit 2 Population and Migration - Vocabulary and Definitions

TermDefinition
Emigration leaving an area as part of a permanent move (in common language, this word has blended into immigration which includes both)
Immigration coming into an area as part of a permanent move (in common language this combines the terms immigration and emigration)
Population distribution the pattern of where people live
Agricultural density the ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land
Arable land land that can be farmed
Arithmetic density the total number of people divided by the total land area
Physiological density the number of people per unit of area of arable land
Pull factor a motivator that draws people into an area
Push factor a force that motivates people to leave an area
Carrying capacity the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain
Age/sex ratio comparison of the numbers of males and females of different ages
Population pyramid a graph of the population of an area by age and sex - when a population is growing it takes a pyramid shape, hence the name
Crude Birth Rate (CBR) the number of live births per one thousand people in the population
Crude Death Rate (CDR) the number of deaths per one thousand people in the population
Doubling time the time period it takes for a population to double in size
Fertility the number of live births occuring in a population
Infant mortality rate (IMR) the number of children who don't survive their first year of life per 1000 live births in a country
Mortality the number of deaths occuring in a population
Rate of Natural Increase (RNI) (also known as NIR) (birth rate - death rate)/10 - a postive NIR means a population is growing and a negative NIR means a population is shrinking
Total fertility rate (TFR) the average number of children a woman is predicted to have in her child bearing (fecund) years
Demographic Transition Model (DTM) a model that helps explain how countries throughout the world tend to proceed through a similar process in term of CBR, CDR, and population
Epidemiologic Transition distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition
Antinatalist policies when a country provides incentives for people to have fewer children (sometimes including punishments)
Pronatalist policies when a country provides incentives for people to have more children
Dependency ratio the ratio of the number of people not in the work force (dependents) and those who are in the work force (producers) - useful for understanding the pressure on the producers
Life expectancy the average number of years a person born in a country might expect to live
Asylum seeker a person seeking residence in a country outside of their own because they fleeing persecution
Chain migration a series of migrations within a group that begins with one person who through contact with the group, pulls people to migrate to the same area.
Forced migration when people migrate not because the want to but because they have no other choice
Guest worker a legal immigrant who is allowed into the country to work, usually for a relatively short time period
Internally displaced persons a person forced to flee their home who remains in their home country
Refugee a person who flees their home country and is not able to return
Step-migration migration to a far away place that takes place in stages
Transhumance moving herds of animals to the highlands in the summer and into the low lands in the winter
Transnational migration moving across a border into another country
Voluntary migration people choosing to migrate (not being forced)
Net migration the difference between immigrants and emigrants per 1,000 inhabitants.  (+Positive net migration means more people moving in than moving out, -negative net migration means more people moving out than moving in)
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