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PHHS - APHUG Unit 2
PHHS - APHUG: Important vocab for Unit 2 - Population
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Region of highest population concentration in the world. | East Asia |
| Region of 2nd highest population concentration in the world. | South Asia |
| Region of 3rd highest population concentration in the world. | Europe |
| Region of 4th highest population concentration in the world. | North America (Eastern Seaboard) |
| How governments determine the number of people in the country. | census |
| total population divided by total land area | arithmetic population density |
| total population divided by arable land | physiologic density |
| rural population divided by arable land | agricultural density |
| number of live births per 1000 people per year | crude birth rade (CBR) |
| number of deaths per 1000 people per year | crude death rate (CDR) |
| Annunal percentage of population growth in a country, factoring in only births and deaths | rate of natural increase (RNI) |
| estimate of how long it takes for a country to double in size (in years) | doubling time |
| number of migrants per 1000 people per year | net migration rate |
| annual percentage of population growth in a country, factoring in births, deaths, and net migration | the demographic equation |
| estimated number of children born to each female of birthing age (15-45) | total fertility rate |
| growth where the rate of increase is stable over time | linear growth |
| growth where the rate of increase gets larger over time | exponential growth |
| British economist; predicted that the world's population will one day exceed the total food supply | Thomas Malthus |
| the total number of organisms an environment can support | carrying capacity |
| People who still believe Malthus's idea is valid and one day the population will exceed the total food supply | Neo-Malthusians |
| model that describes how all nations go through the same stages as they develop technologically | demographic transition model |
| a nation that has a high birth and death rate, with low, variable natural increase | stage 1 |
| a nation that has a high birth rate, but a quickly declining death rate | stage 2 |
| a nation with a birth rate starting to fall, with a death rate starting to stablize | newly industrializing country (NIC) |
| a nation with a declining birth rate and a low and stable death rate | stage 3 |
| a nation with a low birth and death rate, with a low (possibly negative) natural increase | stage 4 |
| a place's make-up in terms of age and gender | population structure |
| one bar on a population pyramid: shows number (or percent) of people of one gender and age group | age-sex cohort |
| found on a population pyramid, could be caused by wars, disease, or baby busts | gaps |
| population pyramid shape, indicates rapid growth, most likely a stage 2 nation | triangle |
| population pyramid shape, indicates moderate growth, most likely an NIC or early stage 3 nation | extended triangle |
| population pyramid shape, indicates slow growth, most likely a stage 3 nation or an early stage 4 | column |
| population pyramid shape, indicates negative population growth, most likely a late stage 4 nation | reduced pentagon |
| what we tend to see at the top levels of all population pyramids | peak |
| migration within one nation | internal migration |
| movement one nation to another | external/international/transnational migration |
| movement from one place to another based on one's free will | voluntary migration |
| movement from one place to another against one's free will | forced migration |
| people who are forced to leave their homeland due to various factors, most often famine, disease, or warfare | refugees |
| sending back of illegal migrants to their country of origin | counter migration |
| negative aspects of a place that cause a person to want to move away | push factors |
| positive things about an area that cause a person to want to migrate there | pull factors |
| small moves, each to a place better than the last | step migration |
| an event that may stop step migration and cause permanent settlement | intervening opportunity |
| when a foothold in a new nation is established, and immigrants comunicate with people in their old nation, encouraging more migration | chain migration |
| Movement in a closed circuit across any given amount of time | cyclic movement |
| Movement based on the seasons | seasonal movement |
| A way of life based on constant migration, generally to support herding | nomadism |
| German-British demographer who established a set of laws describing general trends in migration | Ernst Ravenstein |
| population policy that encourages large families | expansive population policy |
| population policy that encourages small families | restrictive population policy |
| population policy that favors one race or cultural sector of the population over others | eugenic population policy |
| China's restrictive population policy; harshly enforced | one child policy |
| one unintended effect of China's one child policy | female infanticide |
| U.S. Immigration law that introduced the quota system | Immigration Act of 1924 |
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