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| Transhumance | The season movement of people and their livestock over short distances
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| Transmigration | to cause to go from one state of existence or place to another
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| Voluntary | movement of an individual who consciously and voluntarily decides to locate to a new area the opposite of force migration
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| Step Migration | a migration in which an eventual long-distance relocation is under taken in stages as
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| Space time prism | a diagram of the volume of space and the length of time within which our activities of our bodily needs and the means of mobility at our command
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| refugee | people who we forced o migrate from their home country and cannot return to fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group or political opinion
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| push pull factors | factors that induce people to move to a new location. factors that induce people to leave old residences
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| place utility | in human movement and migration studies a measure of an individuals perceived satisfaction or approval of a place in its social economic or environmental attributes
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| personal space | an invisible usually irregular area around a personn into which he or she does not willingly admit others. the sense of personal space is situational and cultural variable
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| periodic movement | for example college attendance or military service that involves temporary recurrent relocation
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| migratory movement | consists of changes in a society that results from the social andeconpomic changes that also produces the demographic transition
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| rural urban | describes interregional migration as an example from rural to urban life
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| iterregional | permanent movement from one region of a country to another
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| intercontinental | permanent from one continent/ country to another
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| migration patterns | patterns of movement intercontinental over countries border interregional within a region or certain area rural to urban
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| intervening opportunity | an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that increases migration
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| internal migration | the permeant or semipermanent movement of individuals within a particular country
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| gravity model | a mathematical prediction of the interaction between two bodies as a function of their size and of the distance separating them
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| forced | permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors
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| distance decay | the declining intensity of any activities or function with increasing distance from it's point of origin
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| cyclic movement | movement nomadic migration
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| chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because of relatives or memebers of the same nationality previously migrated there
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| activity space | the area within which people move freely on they rounds of regular activity
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| zero population growth | proposal to end population growth through a variety of official and nongovernmental family planning programs
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| underpopulaion | lacking the normal population density
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| sustainability | to keep existence to maintain
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| s-curve | a type of curve which shows the growth of a variable in terms of another variable often expressed as units of time
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| rate of natural increase | the percentage by which he population grows in a new year
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| standard of living | a level of material comfort in terms of good and services available to someone or some group
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| population pyramid | a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age an sex
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| population project | estimate of future population growth by extrapolating from current trends and known growth factors
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| age distribution | the portion individuals of different ages within a population you can use an age distribution to estimate survival by calculating in proportion of individuals in succeeding age classes
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| population densities | a measurement of the number of people per given unit of land
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| overpopulation | too many people in one place for the resources available
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| neo-malthusian | people who believe in a set of doctrines derived from Thomas Malthus's theory that limited resources keep populations in check and reduce economic growth
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| natality | number of births per year to every 1000 people in the population
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| mortality | the rate of which people die
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| mathus thomas | one of the first to argue that the world's rate of population increase was for out running the developing of food population
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| maladaptation | an interent tendensen for an organisms adaption to degrease would translate into maladaptations
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| j-curve | refer to a variety of unrelated j-shaped diagrams where a sure initially falls but then rises to higher than a starting point
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| infant mortality rate | the percentage of children who die before their first birthday which a particular country or area
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| gender space | genders are separate into two different places
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| epidemiological transition model | distinctive causes of death in each stage of demographic transition
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| ecumene | the portion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement
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| doubling time | time period required for a population experimenting exponential growth to double in size completely
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| disease diffusion | spreading of disease from one place to another
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| diffusion of fertility control | spreading of fertility control from on place to another
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| depending ratio | the ratio of number of people who are either too old or young to provide for themselves to the number of people who must support them through their own labor
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| demographic transition models | a sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates through
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| demographic regions | study of population characteristics by region
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| demographic momentum | the tendency for population growth to continue despite stringent family planning programs because of relatively high concentration of people in child bearing years
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| demographic equation | an equation summarizes the amount of growth or decline in a population within a country during a particular time period taking into account both natural increase and net migration
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| cohort | a population group unified by a specific common characteristic such as age and subsequently treated as a statistical unit
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| carrying capacity | the largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can sustainably support
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