Population and Migration

Population and Migration

1. Demography

   • Demography is the study of human populations. It plays a role in the study of populations because it can show how a population changes.

2. Natural Increase

   • The growth rate of the population

3. Stable population growth

   • Age specific birth and death rate that remain constant over time.

4. Demographic Transition

5. Overpopulation

   • Too many individuals in an area for the availiable resources.

6. External Migration

   • Moving to a new state, country, or continent.

7. Population Pyramid

   • Displays a population by age and gender

8. Pull Factor

   • Something that induces somebody to move to a location

9. Green Card

   • Card received by immigrants who become permenant residents of the United States

10. Naturalization

    • The process of becoming a citizen

11. Birth Rate

    • The number of births in an area in a certain amount of time

12. Death Rate

    • The number of deaths in an area in a certain amount of time

13. Population Density

    • Number of people per unit area.

14. Migration

    • The movement of people living in one location to another.

15. Migration Field

    • An area in a country where immigrants from another country live.

16. IDP

    • Somebody who is forced to flee his or her home but remains inside the same country.

17. Legal Immigration

    • A foreign person who has legally registered as an immigrant.

18. Visa

    • Card given to somebody who will live in the US temporarily from another country.

19. Emigrant

    • Somebody who leaves a country go live elsewhere.

20. Immigrant

    • Somebody who moves to a new country.

21. Negative Growth Rate

    • Population is decreasing

22. Refugee

    • Person forced to flee his or her country to avoid persecution of disaster.

23. Chain Migration

    • Process in which immigrants with a relationship move to a  new city.

24. Illegal Imigration

    • An immigrant who has entered a country illegally.

25. Aslyum Seeker

    • One who migrates to a new country who wishes to be recocnized as a refugee

26. 3 reasons for the number of people in a place