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SS3201 - Outcome 10
Terms for Social Studies 3201 Outcome 10 Population.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Population Growth Rate | The rate at which a country's population is changing in a given year based on the sum of its natural increase rate and its net migration rate. |
| Carrying Capacity | the number of people that Earth's resources can support using available technology. |
| Hunting and Gathering | A lifestyle of people that relies on subsistence for supplying needs such as food. One of the stages of technological change. |
| Agricultural Revolution | The time period when people began to farm to supply food. One of the stages of technological change. One of the stages of technological change. |
| Green Revolution | A movement to increase food production by developing high yield, disease resistant and fast growing varieties of crops such as wheat, corn, and rice. One of the stages of technological change. |
| Urbanization | The trend of people over time to move from rural to urban areas. |
| Birth rate | The number of births per 1000 people in a country in a given year. |
| Death rate | The number of deaths per 1000 people in a country in a given year. |
| Rate of Natural Increase | The difference between a country’s birth rate and death rate that is used to show an increasing population. |
| Rate of Natural Decrease | The difference between a country’s birth rate and death rate that is used to show a decreasing population. |
| Demographic Transition | The process whereby a country’s high birth and death rates change over time, changing to low birth and death rates. |
| High Stationary | A period when a country’s birth rate is high and the death rate is also high. The population is relatively stable. |
| Early Expanding | A period when a country’s birth rate remains high but there is a dramatic decrease in the death rate. This is a period when there is a large amount of natural increase in the population. |
| Late Expanding | A period when a country's death rate continues to decrease and the birth rate begins to drop. This is a period when the population is still increasing but at a lower rate. |
| Low Stationary | A period when the birth rate has declined to about the same level as the death rate. This is a period when the population remains steady. |
| Germ Theory | The theory that disease can be caused by small organisms in the environment. This is a theory that leads to dramatic decreases in death rate due to new health techniques. |
| Population Pyramid | A graph that summarizes the age and gender of a population. |
| Expanding population | A population that is undergoing a population increase. |
| Stationary Population | A population that is remaining stable. |
| Contracting Population | A population that is getting smaller. |
| Demographic Trap | A situation in which a country continues to have a high birth rate and a low death rate. This results in a population increase that threatens a country’s economic and social development. |
| Overpopulation | A situation in which the demands of a large population exceeds the carrying capacity of that country. |
| Feedback Loop | A cycle in which the outcome reinforces the cause of the initial condition. In this course used in the example of a demographic trap. |
| Population Control | Limitation of population growth through measures such as contraception, sterilization, and abortion. |
| Structural Change Model | Government actions intended to cause people to change their behaviour. Used in countries to reduce the birth rate. |
| Change by Diffusion Model | The spread of ideas and social norms through various forms of social interaction and the mass media. Used to spread ideas about the number of children per family. |
| Population Implosion | A dramatic decrease in total population and an increase in aging population that occurs when the total fertility rate falls below 2.1. |
| Total Fertility Rate | The average number of children that a woman will have in a given country. 2.1 is needed to keep the population at the same level. |
| Birth Dearth | The situation where a low total fertility rate (less than 2.1) causes the population to decline. |
| Birt Dirt | The birth dearth as pronounced in Newfoundland. |
| DINKs | Acronym for Double Income No Kids |
| Pension Plans | Policies that provide an income for older people who can no longer work. |
| Pronatalist Strategies | Policies or ideas that encourage people to have more children. |
| Push Factors | Conditions that cause people to leave their existing place of residence. |
| Pull Factors | Conditions that attract people to a new place. |
| Emigrants | A person who leaves their own country to live permanently in another place |
| Immigrants | A person who enters a new country to live there permanently. |
| Net Migration | The total immigrants minus the total emigrants, including citizens and non-citizens. |
| Brain Gain | A country’s gain of highly skilled and educated workers due to immigration. |
| Brain Drain | A country’s loss of highly skilled and educated workers due to emigration. |
| Brawn Gain | A country’s gain of workers able to fill jobs in physically demanding sectors of the economy. |
| Replacement Migration | The migration that takes place to make sure a country’s population remains stable. |
| Remittance | Transfer of money that is often sent as a gift from a migrant to members of the migrant's family back in their homeland. |
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