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Unit 2

TermDefinition
Age-Sex Composition Graphy The tool used to study the population/commonly is called a population pyramid. Based on age and gender.
Agricultural Population Density The ratio to total number of farmers to total farmable land.
Anti-Natalist Policy Programs to decrease the number of births.
Arable Land Land that is suitable for agriculture/crops.
Arithmetic Population Density The total number of people divided by total land area.
Asylum Seeker Someone who has migrated to another country in hope of being recognized as a refugee.
Baby Boom Name given for the spike of birth rates often caused by hostilities like war ending and peace resuming.
Baby Bust Name given to when the baby boom ended and birth rates were lower for a number of years.
Birth Deficit Name for a slow down of births during war due to men and women being separated.
Boserup Theory A theory of Ester Boserup suggesting that the more people there are, the more hands there are to work, rather than mouths to feed. This opposed the Malthus Theory.
Brain Drain Large scale of smarter, more talented people moving out of a country.
Carrying Capacity The number of people a place can support on a sustained basis.
Chain Migration Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.
Cohorts Vertical axis showing age groups on the population pyramid.
Counter Migration Migration flow that produces a movement in the opposite direction.
Crude Birth Rate (CBR) The total number of alive births out of 1000 people in a society.
Crude Death Rate (CDR) The total number of deaths in a year out of 1000 people in a society.
Demographic Balancing Equation Way geographer describe the future population of a region at any scale.
Demographic Momentum Process where even though fertility rates have declined, people are living longer causing population to still grow for another 20-40 years.
Dependency Ratio The number of people under 15 and over 64 compared to the number of people in the labor force.
Distance Decay Phenomenon that the farther two places are the less they will interact with each other.
Doubling Time The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
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