Flashcards
Unit 2: Population and Migration
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- 1Activity Spacea person's regular schedule of short movements
- 2Gravity ModelSpacial interaction increases as the size and importance of places becomes larger, and vise versa
- 3Cyclic Motionshort regular trips away from home
- 4Periodic MovementLonger trips taken from home- trips are taken from time to time
- 5Forced Migrationauthority or power makes people move
- 6Voluntary Migrationmigrants ways options and decides
- 7TranshumanceSystem of farming where livestock is moved based on seasonal availability of pastures
- 8Push- Pull FactorsPush-conditions and perceptions that make the migrant leave
Pull-circumstances that attract migrant - 9Step MigrationUnbroken routes of migration that are actually steps
(town-> city-> metropolis) - 10Distance DecayThe farther away from something the less influence it will have
- 11Chain MigrationMigrants move through kinship links (connection with the area based on family)
- 12Intervening OpportunityChances that migrants take that were not part of the original plan (jobs, spouses)
- 13RefugeeA person who is afraid of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, social group, political opinion
- 14Internal MigrationMovement of people within a country
- 15Space Time PrismSet of all points that can be reached by an individual given a maximum possible speed from a starting point
- 16Personal Spacethe surrounding area over which a person makes a claim to territorial privacy
- 17Place UtilityThe desirability and usefulness of a place to an individual or to a groups such as a family.
- 18Intercontinental MigrationPermanent movement from one country to a different country on the same continent.
Ex. movement across country or ocean - 19Interregional MigrationPermanent movement from one region of a country to another.
Ex. movement from Texas to Wisconsin - 20Rural-Urban MigrationPermanent movement from suburbs and rural area to the urban city area.
Ex. countryside to Houston - 21Migratory Movementmovement that consists of one or more persons migrating from one place to another
Ex. potato famine and the Irish moving to the U.S. - 22TransmigrationRelocation of people away from overpopulated core regions to less crowded areas
- 23Doublet timeThe time it takes for a population to double
- 24Thomas MalthusBelieved the population was increasing faster than the rate of food production and we were all going to die
- 25MortalityDeath Rate
- 26Infant Mortality RateChildren who die before the age of 1
- 27Population Pyramid (Age Distribution)Shows the age and sex distribution of the population
- 28Natural IncreaseBirths-Deaths
Area shaded between death and birth rates
- 29Arithmetic Densitypeople/ nation's area
*not reliable - 30Physiologic Densitypeople/ farmable land
*shows how populated an area is - 31Demographic Transition Model
- 32Demographic EquationTotal pop= OP-(B-D)+(I-E)
- 33Carrying CapacityAmount of people an environment can support
- 34CohortPopulation of a certain age group
- 35Dependency RatioChildren/elders: working people
- 36Ecumenemeeting place for the world's religions and ideologies
- 37MaladaptionSomething that is once harmful is now a bother
- 38NatalityBirth Rate
- 39Neo MalthusiansBelieve that we should conserve resources bc the population is getting to large
- 40Zero Population GrowthBirth Rate= Death Rate
- 41Population ExplosionsDeath Rate << Birth Rate
- 42Population ProjectionPrediction of what the population will be in the future
- 43SustainabilityThe ability of a country to supply enough resources for their people
- 44J-Curvewhen population in exponential
- 45OverpopulationIs there enough resources on Earth to support all of the people
- 46Standard Of LivingThe quantity and quality of goods
- 47Demographic MomentumA growing population continues to grow even if fertility rates drop
- 48Demographic RegionsCountries around the world are at different stages of the demographic model
- 49Diffusion of Fertility ControlAverage amount of kids a household has in a country
- 50Disease DiffusionHierarchal: goes from one area to the next (urban cities-> rural areas)
Contagious: Spreads from person to person - 51Sex RatioMales: Females
- 52UnderpopulationDrastic decrease in population
- 53S-Curve
- 54Epidemiological Transition ModelSame as the DTM but shows cause of death at each stage
- 55Gendered Spacean area designed for a specific sex