AP human geography chapter 2 and 3 test
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- Chernobyl
- reverse migration
- voluntary migration
- moments of an individual who consciously and volutarily decides to locte to a new area
- crude death rate
- the total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society
- push factors
- ECONOMIC- poor harvest, lack of jobs; CULTURAL/POLITICAL- refugees from wars, government ideology; ENVIROMENTAL- floods drought
- population policy for china
- one child only
- agricultural revolution
- the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer entirely on hunting and gathering
- epidemiological transition
- distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition
- Population pyramids
- a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
- chain migration
- idividuals follow the migratory path of preceding friends or family members to an existing community
- zero population growth
- a decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero
- sex ratio
- the number of males per 100 females in the population
- third great migration
- Asian and Latin Migration
- overpopulation
- the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the enviroment to support life at a decent standard of living
- agricultural density
- the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
- Doubling time
- the number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
- pandemic
- disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
- ecumene
- the portion of earths surface occupied by permanant human settlement
- infant mortality rate
- the total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for every 1000 live births in society
- Thomas Malthus
- Made up the Population Theory. claimed that population grows at an exponential rate while food production increases arithemetically, and thereby that eventually population growth would outpace food production
- imigrate
- the process of idividuals moving into a new country with the intentions of remaining there
- crude birth rate
- the total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society
- population policy for india
- men visectamy
- internal migration
- the perminent or semiperminent movement of idividuals within a particular country
- pull factors
- ECONOMIC= job opportunities; CULTURAL/POLITICAL- freedom; ENVIROMENTAL- amenities
- census
- a complete enumeration of the population
- demography
- the scientific study of population characteristics
- forced migration
- idividuals are forced to leave a country against their will
- emigrate
- to move out of a particular country of origin
- quota system
- in reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year
- dependacy ratio
- the number of people under 15 and over 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force
- Natural Growth
- B-D+I-E
- Natural Increase Rate
- The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate
- first great migration
- the pilgrims came, Enlish went north and spanish went south; 1588
- second great migration
- 1870-1930 European Migration, Elis Island was closed in 1933, restricted emmigration because of depression
- Demographic Transition
- The process of change in a societys population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population
- Life expectancy
- the average number of years an individual can be expected to live
- industrial revolution
- a series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
- guest workers
- workers who migrate to the more developed countries of the northern and western europe, usually from southern or eastern europe, or from north africa, in search of higher paying jobs