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Flashcards by Kaila Blevins, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kaila Blevins
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Activity Space | a person's regular schedule of short movements |
| Gravity Model | Spacial interaction increases as the size and importance of places becomes larger, and vise versa |
| Cyclic Motion | short regular trips away from home |
| Periodic Movement | Longer trips taken from home- trips are taken from time to time |
| Forced Migration | authority or power makes people move |
| Voluntary Migration | migrants ways options and decides |
| Transhumance | System of farming where livestock is moved based on seasonal availability of pastures |
| Push- Pull Factors | Push-conditions and perceptions that make the migrant leave Pull-circumstances that attract migrant |
| Step Migration | Unbroken routes of migration that are actually steps (town-> city-> metropolis) |
| Distance Decay | The farther away from something the less influence it will have |
| Chain Migration | Migrants move through kinship links (connection with the area based on family) |
| Intervening Opportunity | Chances that migrants take that were not part of the original plan (jobs, spouses) |
| Refugee | A person who is afraid of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, social group, political opinion |
| Internal Migration | Movement of people within a country |
| Space Time Prism | Set of all points that can be reached by an individual given a maximum possible speed from a starting point |
| Personal Space | the surrounding area over which a person makes a claim to territorial privacy |
| Place Utility | The desirability and usefulness of a place to an individual or to a groups such as a family. |
| Intercontinental Migration | Permanent movement from one country to a different country on the same continent. Ex. movement across country or ocean |
| Interregional Migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. Ex. movement from Texas to Wisconsin |
| Rural-Urban Migration | Permanent movement from suburbs and rural area to the urban city area. Ex. countryside to Houston |
| Migratory Movement | movement that consists of one or more persons migrating from one place to another Ex. potato famine and the Irish moving to the U.S. |
| Transmigration | Relocation of people away from overpopulated core regions to less crowded areas |
| Doublet time | The time it takes for a population to double |
| Thomas Malthus | Believed the population was increasing faster than the rate of food production and we were all going to die |
| Mortality | Death Rate |
| Infant Mortality Rate | Children who die before the age of 1 |
| Population Pyramid (Age Distribution) | Shows the age and sex distribution of the population |
| Natural Increase | Births-Deaths Area shaded between death and birth rates |
| Arithmetic Density | people/ nation's area *not reliable |
| Physiologic Density | people/ farmable land *shows how populated an area is |
| Demographic Transition Model | |
| Demographic Equation | Total pop= OP-(B-D)+(I-E) |
| Carrying Capacity | Amount of people an environment can support |
| Cohort | Population of a certain age group |
| Dependency Ratio | Children/elders: working people |
| Ecumene | meeting place for the world's religions and ideologies |
| Maladaption | Something that is once harmful is now a bother |
| Natality | Birth Rate |
| Neo Malthusians | Believe that we should conserve resources bc the population is getting to large |
| Zero Population Growth | Birth Rate= Death Rate |
| Population Explosions | Death Rate << Birth Rate |
| Population Projection | Prediction of what the population will be in the future |
| Sustainability | The ability of a country to supply enough resources for their people |
| J-Curve | when population in exponential |
| Overpopulation | Is there enough resources on Earth to support all of the people |
| Standard Of Living | The quantity and quality of goods |
| Demographic Momentum | A growing population continues to grow even if fertility rates drop |
| Demographic Regions | Countries around the world are at different stages of the demographic model |
| Diffusion of Fertility Control | Average amount of kids a household has in a country |
| Disease Diffusion | Hierarchal: goes from one area to the next (urban cities-> rural areas) Contagious: Spreads from person to person |
| Sex Ratio | Males: Females |
| Underpopulation | Drastic decrease in population |
| S-Curve | |
| Epidemiological Transition Model | Same as the DTM but shows cause of death at each stage |
| Gendered Space | an area designed for a specific sex |
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