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AP HUG Vocab
Unit 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agricultural Density | The number of farmers per area of land for growing crops |
| Anti-Natalist | A policy that supports lower birth rates |
| Arithmetic Density | The total number of people in an area divided by the total land in that area |
| Asylum Seekers | People who move to another country that are not official refugees but are still formally applying for legal protection and refuge |
| Carrying Capacity | The maximum population of a species that the environment can survive given the available resources |
| Chain Migration | When people move to a specific location because family or other people with the same nationality moved there previously |
| Cohort | A group of people who have something in common or a similar experience at a specific time |
| Crude Birth Rates(CBR) | The number of live births per 1,000 people in a population during a given year |
| Crude Death Rates(CDR) | The number of deaths per 1,000 people in a population during a given year |
| Demography | The scientific study of population characteristics |
| Demographic Transition | The process where a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as it develops economically |
| Dependency Ratio | The number of people too young or old to work |
| Diaspora | A term for the scattering or forced dispersal of a people from their ancestral homeland to new places, while maintaining cultural and emotional connections to their origin country |
| Doubling Time | The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
| Ecumene | The areas occupied by permanent human habitation |
| Epidemiological Transition | A historical shift in the patterns of disease and mortality in a population as it progresses through stages of economic and social development |
| Fertility | The natural capability to produce offspring. |
| Forced Migration | Permanent movement, compelled by cultural or environmental factors |
| Guest Worker | A person with a temporary permission to work in another country |
| Internally Displaced Persons(IDP) | Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar reasons as a refugee but hasn't moved across an international border |
| Internal Migration | Permanent movement within a particular country |
| Intervening Obstacles | An environmental or cultural feature of a landscape that makes migration harder |
| Intervening Opportunities | Something that causes a person who is migrating to stop |
| Life Expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given their circumstances/conditions |
| Infant Mortality | The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society |
| Thomas Malthus | A British cleric, scholar, and economist who known for his An Essay on the Principle of Population, in which he argued that unchecked population growth would inevitably outpace food production, leading to inevitable consequences |
| Migration | A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to location |
| Pandemic | An epidemic that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population at the same time |
| Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of land suitable for agriculture and focuses on how many people rely on the available land for food production |
| Pull Factors | A factor that induces people to move to a new location |
| Push Factors | A factor that induces people to leave old locations |
| Rate of Natural Increase | The percentage by which a population grows in a year, excluding growth by migration |
| Refugees | People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution |
| Replacement Level Fertility | The average number of children per woman needed for a population to replace itself from one generation to the next |
| Step Migration | Migration to a distant destination when you slowly move father and farther |
| Transnational Migration | When people move from one country to another but maintain significant social, cultural, economic, and political ties to both their home and new countries |
| Voluntary Migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice |
| Zero Population Growth(ZPG) | A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero |
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