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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Also refered to as population density, is the total number of people divided by the total land area. | Arithmetic Density |
| A sum of money sent, especially by mail, in payment for goods or services or as a gift | Remittances |
| A condition of demographic balance where the number of people in a specified population neither grows nor declines. | Zero Population Growth (ZPG) |
| Number of people supported by a unit of area of arable land. | Physiological Density |
| Permanent movement within a country. | Internal Migration |
| To move from one region to another. | Interregional Migration |
| The annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared to total live births and is usually expressed as a number of deaths per 1,000 births. | Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) |
| Attractive, positive forces that cause people to move to a new location. | Pull Factors |
| Anything that would cause someone to leave their present location, such as violence, war or perseuction. | Push Factors |
| The emigration of talented/educated people. | Brain Drain |
| Argued that the world's population was growing geometrically or exponentially, but food supplies were only growing arithmetically. | Thomas Malthus |
| The number of people a given area can support from the natural environment and from human actions to modify the environmment through agriculture, industry and extraction of raw materials. Uses physiological density to get this number. | Carrying Capacity |
| The number of live births per thousand people in a country. Also known as natality rate. | Crude Birth Rate (CBR) |
| The movement of a person from one place to another. | Migration |
| Graphical illustration of the distribution of a population (typically that of a country or region of the world) by age groups and sex. | Population Pyramid |
| The ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of agricultural land. | Agricultural Density |
| Migrants who work for at least minimum wage legally in nations other than their own. | Guest Worker |
| An environmental or cultural feature that favors migration. | Intervening Opportunity |
| A measure of how quickly a population is growing or declining. | Natural Increase Rate |
| The number of years a person can expect to live at current mortality levels. | Life Expectancy |
| Disease that occurs over a very wide geographic area. | Pandemic |
| Maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country within a one-year time period. | Quotas |
| Also referred to as arithmetic density, total number of people divided by the total land area. | Population Density |
| The ratio of males to females in a population. | Sex Ratio |
| When someone chooses to leave a place as a result of push or pull factors. | Voluntary Migration |
| Movement from a location. | Emigration |
| Focuses on the cause of death in each stage of the Demographic Transition. | Epidemiologic Transition Model |
| The percentage of people in a population who are either too old (over 65) or too young (0-14) to work and thus must be supported by others. | Dependency Ratio |
| The movement to a location. | Immigration |
| The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. | Ecumene |
| The movement that takes place within the same country, from one state to another. | Intraregional Migration |
| A person who migrates to another country hoping to be recognized as a refugee and given protection. | Asylum Seeker |
| Someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence. | Refugees |
| The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years (Age 15-49). | Total Fertility Rate (TFR) |
| Involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. | Forced Migration |
| A person that is forced to migrate but are still within their national borders. | Internally displaced people (IDP) |
| An environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration. | Intervening Obstacle |
| Explains the changes in the natural increase rate as a function of economic development in each country. | Demographic Transition Model |
| An immigrant who moves to places where family members and friends form their home country have already migrated. | Chain migrant |
| The pattern of where people live. | Population Distribution |
| The number of deaths per thousand people in a country. Also known as mortality rate. | Crude Death Rate (CDR) |
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