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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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