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Everything you need to know for the H-Gap unit 2 test

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Physical Factors   The natural elements that make up a place  
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Human factors   Various economic, cultural, historical, and political aspects of a place  
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Population Distribution   Spread of people in an area  
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Population Density   The amount of people in an area  
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Arithmetic Density   Commonly used metric to show how density populated a place is  
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Physiological Density   Measures the pressure that a population exerts on the environment to feed the population  
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Agricultural Density   Shows the level of efficiency of agricultural production in an area and the degree of reliance on human labor  
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Urban Sprawl   The unrestricted growth and expansion of an urban or suburban area into the surrounding countryside  
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Carrying Capacity   The amount of people that can be supported by the environment without damaging the environment  
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Sex Ratio   The ration of males to female  
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Dependency Ratio   How many people a society needs to support/cant work  
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Child Dependency Ratio   Number of people aged 0-14  
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Elderly Dependency Ratio   Number of people aged 65+  
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Crude Birth Rate   Total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in a society  
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Crude Death Rate   The number of deaths in a yea for every 1000 people alive in a society  
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Rate of Natural Increase (NIR)   The percentage a population grows in a year  
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Doubling Time   The amount of time it takes for a population to double in size  
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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)   The average number of children a woman will have  
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Infant Mortality Rate   The total number of deaths under one year of age in a year for every 1000 live births  
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Primary Sector   Jobs and activities that involve extracting natural resources  
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Secondary Sector   Take the raw resources to produce/ manufacture products  
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Tertiary Sector   Jobs and activities that provide a service for other individuals  
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Stage 1 DTM   High birth rate and death rate, low population increase  
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Stage 2 DTM   High birth and low death, high population increase (People start to move to urban areas)  
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Stage 3 DTM   Decline in birth rate and still declining death rate, more modern population growth  
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Stage 4 DTM   Low birth rate and low death rate, with little to know population growth  
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Stage 5 DTM   Low birth rate low death rate, births fall bellow the deaths (Decline in pop.)  
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Subsistence Agriculture   Agriculture production that occurs with the intent to provide for the farmer's family or local community (Output is for consumption not sale)  
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Emigration   When an individual leaves a country or political territory  
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ZPG (Zero Population Growth)   when a country's CBR and CDR are essentially the same, causing the NIR to be 0  
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Malthusian Theory   Population would grow exponentially while food supply grows arithmetically (Not enough food to go around)  
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Anti-Natalist Policies   Policies that are created to help decrease a society's birth rate  
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Pro-Natalist Policies   Policies that are created to help increase a society's birth rate  
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Anti-Natalist Policies   Policies that are created to help decrease a society's birth rate  
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Maternal Mortality   Number of maternal deaths per 100k live births  
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Maternal Mortality   Number of maternal deaths per 100k live births  
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Pull Factors   Positive situations that make people want to move to a place  
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E.G. Ravenstein   Migration happens for economic reasons and is taken by young adults  
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Pull Factors   Positive situations that make people want to move to a place  
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Immigration   When an individual enters a country or political territory  
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Push Factors   Negative situations that make people want to leave a location  
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Intervening Obstacles   Negative situations or events that hinder migration and end up preventing migrants from reaching their final destination  
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Immigration   When an individual enters a country or political territory  
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Intervening Opportunities   Positive situations or events thathinder migration and end up preventing migrants from reaching their final destination  
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Intervening Obstacles   Negative situations or events that hinder migration and end up preventing migrants from reaching their final destination  
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Intervening Opportunities   Positive situations or events that hinder migration and end up preventing migrants from reaching their final destination  
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Forced Migration   Something that if forcing you to leave  
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Refugee   An individual who has been forced to leave their home country and has crosses an international border in order to escape  
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Internally Displaced Person (IDP)   AN individual who has been forced to flee from their home, but has not crossed an internationally recognized state border  
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Transnational Migration   Emigrates from their home country but remains connected to their original country  
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Chain Migration   A process where legal immigrants sponsors a family member to immigrate to the country  
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Step Migration   Migration that happens in stages  
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Guest Workers   Temporarily migrated to a new country for work or education  
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Remittance   Money an immigrant sends back to their family in their home country  
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Transhumance Migration   Migration that is cyclical and revolves around the seasonal movement of livestock  
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Rural to Urban Migration   People more from rural areas to urban areas  
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Intraregional Migration   Migration that involves a permanent move withing the same region  
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Interregional Migration   Migration that involves a permanent move from one region of a country to another region of the same country  
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Brain Drain   When the skilled labor leaves the geographic area in favor of another area that offers more opportunities  
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