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Unit II +some
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- 1Age Distributionproportion of individuals of different ages within a population. You can use an age distribution to estimate survival by calculating the difference in proportion of individuals in succeeding age classes.
- 2Sex RatioRation of men to women
- 3Gendered SpaceA certain place categorized by a certain gender
ex: gentlemen's club - 4Population DensityA measurement of the number of people per given unit of land.
- 5Zero Population Growth (ZPG)Where natural birth rate declines to equal crude birth rate and the natural rate of population approaches 0.
- 6UnderpopulationA drop or decrease in a region's population.
- 7Formal (Uniform) RegionArea of bounded space that possesses some homogeneous characteristic (linguistic, culture, political, regional, environmental - biomes, bioregions)
- 8Functional (Nodal) RegionAreas that have a central place or node that is a focus or point of origin that expresses some practical purpose
ex;market places - 9Perceptual (Vernacular) RegionBased upon the perception or collective mental map of the region's residents.
ex; how you remember the route from your home to school in your mind - 10OverpopulationToo many people in one place for the resources available
- 11Neo-Malthusians1. Sustainability
2. Increasing per capita demand
3. Natural resource depletion - 12J-curveThis predicts human population growth over time, factoring in food production (Malthus) and human population.
- 13Gravity modelA model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.
- 14Epidemiological Transition ModelDistinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition stages 1-5
- 15Demographic MomentumThis is the tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution. This is important because once this happens a country moves to a different stage in the demographic transition model.
- 16Doubling TimeThe time required for a population to double in size.
- 17Infant Mortality RateThe total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society.
- 18Population PyramidsA bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
- 19EcumenePortion of the Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement
- 20Activity spaceThe area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity.
- 21Chain migrationMigration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
- 22Carrying capacityThe maximum number of users that can be sustained, over the long term, by a given set of natural resources
- 23Dependency RatioThe # of people who are too young (0-14) or too old (65+) to work compared to the number of people in their productive years
- 24Distance decayThe diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
- 25Forced migrationPermanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.
- 26Internal migrationA move within a particular country or region.
- 27Periodic movementMovement - for example, college attendance or military service - that involves temporary, recurrent relocation.
- 28Pull factorFactor that induces people to move to a new location.
- 29Push factorFactor that induces people to leave old residences.
- 30RefugeesIndividual who crosses national boundaries to seek safety and asylum are a significant global problem.
- 31Thomas MalthusAn English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834).
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