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- 1Transmigrationto migrate from one country to another in order to settle there.
- 2CohortOrigin of french meaning: Birthrate
- 3Dependency Ratioan age-population ratio of those typically not in the labor force (the dependent part) and those typically in the labor force (the productive part). It is used to measure the pressure on productive population.
- 4Maladaptationis a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful, in contrast with an adaptation, which is more helpful than harmful.
- 5Ecumenegenerally refers to land where people have made their permanent home, and to all work areas that are considered occupied and used for agricultural or any other economic purpose. (inhabited)
- 6Sex RatioRatio of males to females
- 7Push Pull FactorsThe lure of another home, country, region, organization, or religion
or reason for leaving a certain home, country, region, organization, or religion - 8Cohorta population group that's distinguished by a certain characteristic
- 9J-curvethe correlation between stability and openness
- 10Zero Population GrowthCDR and the CBR of a country even out
- 11SustainabilityHow well a country can supply its residents with the proper needs
- 12Gravity ModelInteraction of places based on their population, sizes, and distances between them
- 13Migration Patternspatterns of movement; Intercontinental- over countries' borders, Inter-regional- within a region or certain area, Rural-Urban- from a rural area to an urban area (farm to a city)
- 14TranshumanceA system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability of pastures
- 15J-curveThe correlation between stability and openness
- 16Age DistributionOne back-to-back bar graph, showing the number of males and showing females in a particular population in five-year age groups.
- 17Carry capacityThis is the population level that can be supported, given the quantity of food, habitat, water and other life infrastructure present.
- 18Demographic Transition modelHas 4 steps. Stage 1 is low growth (low stationary), Stage 2 is High Growth (early expanding), Stage 3 is Moderate Growth (late expanding), and Stage 4 is Low Growth (low stationary), and Stage 5 although not officially a stage is a possible stage that includes zero or negative population growth. This is important because this is the way our country and others countries around the world are transformed from a less developed country to a more developed country.
- 19Disease DiffusionThere are two types, contagious and hierarchical. Hierarchical is along high density areas that spread from urban to rural areas. Contagious is spread through the density of people.
- 20Doubling TimeThe number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
- 21Epidemiological transition modelThis is a distinctive cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition.
- 22Forced MigrationPermanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.
- 23Voluntary migrationwhen you leave a place on your own terms
- 24Zero population growthwhen the birth rate equals the death rate and the natural increase rate approaches zero
- 25Standard of livingrefers to the quality and quantity of goods and services available to people and the way they are distributed within a population
- 26S-curverelates to growth and decline in the natural increase
- 27RefugeePeople forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in social group, or political opinion.
- 28Population pyramidA bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
- 29Population distributionThe arrangement of a feature in space. The three main properties are density, concentration, and pattern
- 30Population explosiona sudden increase or burst in the population in either a certain geographical area
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