Rubenstein Vocabulary Chapter 2
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| 1. Arithmetic density | show 🗑
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| 2. Physiological density | show 🗑
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| 4. Natality | show 🗑
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| 5. Mortality | show 🗑
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| show | a dramatic increase in world population since 1900. The crucial element triggering this explosion has been a dramatic decrease in the death rate, particularly for infants and children, in most of the world.
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| show | the process of change in a society’s population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population.
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| show | when the total fertility rate ( measured as the average number of children born per woman between ages 15 to 44 years of age) or TFR is at 2.1 which is a stabilized population, one that does not increase or decrease.
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| 11. Population pyramid | show 🗑
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| show | a group of individuals who share a common temporal demographic experience; not necessarily bases only on age, but may also be defined based on criteria such as time of marriage or time of graduation; all individuals in a certain age range.
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| show | scattered settlements of a particular national group living abroad.
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| show | culturally specific notions of what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman, are closely tied to how many children are produced by couples.
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| 16. Infant mortality rate | show 🗑
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| show | the survival of a land
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| 22. Pandemic | show 🗑
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| 23. Demographic equation | show 🗑
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| 24. Dependency ratio | show 🗑
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| show | the percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.
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| 26. Doubling time | show 🗑
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| 27. J-Curve | show 🗑
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| 28. S-Curve | show 🗑
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| 29. Ecumene | show 🗑
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| 30. Overpopulation | show 🗑
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| show | circumstances of too few people to sufficiently develop the resources of a country or region to improve the level of living of its inhabitants.
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| show | the number of people an area can support on a sustained basis given the prevailing technology.
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| 33. Population projection | show 🗑
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| show | (population momentum) the tendency for population growth to continue despite stringent family planning programs because of a relatively high concentration of people in the childbearing years.
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| show | population geography, the study of the spatial and ecological aspects of population, including density, distribution, fertility, gender, living standard, health, age, nutrition, mortality, and mobility.
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| 37. Push Factor | show 🗑
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| show | positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas.
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| show | permanent movement undertaken by choice.
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| show | permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors
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| 41. Transnational migrant | show 🗑
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| 42. Refugee | show 🗑
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| 43. Intercontinental Migration Pattern | show 🗑
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| 44. Interregional Migration Pattern | show 🗑
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| show | permanent movement within one region of a country.
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| show | permanent movement from an agrarian sparsely populated region to a densely populated metropolitan area.
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| 47. Place utility | show 🗑
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| 48. Activity space | show 🗑
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| show | an invisible, usually irregular area around a person into which he or she does not willingly admit others; situational and cultural variable.
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| 50. Space- time prism | show 🗑
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| 51. Space- time compression | show 🗑
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| show | a model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.
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| 53. Distance Decay | show 🗑
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| 54. Step Migration | show 🗑
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| 55. Chain Migration | show 🗑
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| show | the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminished the attractiveness of sites farther away.
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| show | an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
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| 58. Cyclic Movement | show 🗑
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| show | periodic movement involving millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances.
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| 60. Migration transition | show 🗑
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| show | the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
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| 62. Internal Migration | show 🗑
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| show | permanent movement from one country to another.
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| show | form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.
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