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| Question | Answer |
| Age Distribution | population pyramid number of males and females in population in five year age groups |
| Carry Capacity | population that can be supposed, how people in an area that will be able to support |
| Cohort | population of various age categories in age-sex population pyramid, can tell country if in Stage 3 or 5 in demographic model |
| Demographic equation | Births-Deaths(+)(-) net migration, calculates population change in increase or decrease. |
| Demographic momentum | population to continue growing after birth decline because the young age distribution. |
| Demographic regions | shows the different parts of the world in the population transition. |
| Demographic Transition model | Stage 1- low growth Stage 2- High growth Stage 3- Moderate growth Stage 4-Low growth Stage 5- zero or negative |
| Dependency ratio | # of people who to you need to retire compared to people in work years. |
| Diffusion of fertility control | shows how many children per mother is having, to see the growth in population of declining. |
| Disease diffusion | Hierarchical-high density through urban and rural areas, Contagious spread through people. So can predict how it will spread. |
| Doubling time | the number of years to double population, with a constant NIR. |
| Ecumene | portion of earth surface with permanent human settlement. |
| Epidemiological transition model | cause of death in each stage of a DTM,and shows how populations in countries drastically change. |
| Infant mortality rate | IMR, the number of deaths of infants yearly, under the age one. |
| J-curve | projection population has growth, shaped as a J |
| Maladaption | Has a became not helpful than harmful. As the world changes the surrounding do to. |
| Malthus, Thomas | First to argue the rate of population increase was out numbering the source of food. |
| Mortality | mortality determines features of a country, an IMR and life expectancy can measure the death rate. |
| Natality | Ratio of living births in an area to the population in the area. |
| Neo-malthusian | theory that supports Malthus' thoughts on overpopulation. |
| Overpopulation | relationship between number of people on Earth, and availability of resources. |
| Population densities | frequency something occurs in space is density. |
| Arithmetic density | total number of objects in an area |
| Physiological density | number of people per unit of area suitable for agriculture. |
| Agricultural density | numbers of farmers compared to area of farmland. |
| Population distributions- | arrangement of features in a space |
| Population explosion- | sudden increase in population in a certain geographical area or worldwide. |
| Population projection | predicts future population of an area or in the world. |
| Population pyramid | population shown by age and gender on a bar graph. |
| Rate of natural increase | the percentage of how much the population grows in a year. |
| S-curve | the cyclical movement upwards and downwards on a graph. |
| Sex ratio | the number of makes per 100 females in the population. |
| Standard of living | quality and quantity of good and serices avaiable to people in the population. |
| Sustainability | the best outcomes for human and natural eniroment both in present and future. |
| Underpopulation | sharp drop in region's population |
| Zero population growth | CBR and CDR equal and the NIR approaches zero. |
| Activity space | space for certain industry or an activity. |
| Chain migration | when one family member moves to another country, and rest of family members come shortly after. |
| Cyclic movement | trends in migration and other processes with a clear cycle. |
| Distance Decay | contact between two groups diminishes because of the distance. |
| Forced Migration | people removed from the country because of environmental and cultural reasons. |
| Gravity Model | predicts that location of a service is by the number of people in an area, related to the distance to the people must travel. |
| Internal Migration | permanent movement in a country |
| Intervening Opportunity | environmental or cultural feature that helps increase migration. |
| Push-Pull Factors | factors that induce people to migrate to a new location and emigrate from their old location. |
| Intercontinental | Move from one country to another country in SAME continent |
| Interregional- | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. |
| Rural-Urban | Permanent move from suburbs and rural areas to urban, city area. |
| Transhumance | Seasonal migration of live stock between lowland areas and mountain areas. |
| Refugee | people forced to migrate out their country, and cant return because the fear of death because of their race, religion,or nationality |
| Transmigration | to move from place or stage to another. |
| Step Migration | migration to a destination that occurs in stages |
| Personal Space | region surrounding a person, which is physiological theirs. |
| Voluntary Migration | movement in which people relocate on their own |
| Place Utility | place where a product is located for customers to buy. |
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