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Unit 2 Vocab
AP Human Geography Unit 2 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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agricultural density | the total number of farmers per unit of arable land |
antinatlist | describing attitudes or policies that discourage child bearing as means of limiting population growth |
arthmetic density | the total number of people per unit area of land; aka crude density |
asylum | the right to protection in a country |
brain drain | the loss of trained or educated poeple to the lure of work in another, often richer, country |
carrying capacity | the maximum population size an enviroment can sustain |
chain migration | type of migration in which people move to a location because others from their community have previously migrated there |
circular migration | migration pattern in which migrant workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs |
crude birth rate (CBR) | the number of births in a given year per 1000 people in a given population |
crude death rate (CDR) | the number of deaths in a given year per 1000 people in a given population |
demographic transition model (DTM) | a model that represents sifts in the growth of the world's populaitons based on population trends related to birth rate and death rate |
dependency ratio | the number of people in a dependent age group (-15 to 65+) divided by the number of people in the working-age group (~16 to 64) mulitplied by 100 |
distance decay | a principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have |
doubling time | the number of yars in whihc a population growing at a certain rate will double |
emigration | movement away from a location |
epidemiological transition (ETM) | a model that describes changes in fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and population age distribution largely as a result of changes in causes of death. |
forced migration | type of migration in which people are compelled to move by economic, political, enviromental, or cultural factors |
friction of distance | a concept that states that the longer a journey is the more time, effort, and cost it will involve |
gravity model | a model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton's laws of universal gravitation |
human migration | the permanent movement of people from one place to another |
guest workers | a migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor |
human trafficking | defined by the united nations as the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion) |
immigration | a movement to a location |
infact mortality rate (IMR) | the number of deaths of children under the age of 1 per 1000 live births |
internal migration | movement within a country's borders |
internally displaced persons | a person who has been forced to flee their home but remains within country borders |
interregional migration | movement from one region of the country to another |
intervening obstacle | an occurance that holds migrants back |
intervening opportunity | an occurance that casue migrants to pause their journey by choice |
intraregional migration | movement within one region of the country |
life expectancy | the average number of years a person's expected to live |
Neo-Malthusian | describing the theory relating to the idea that population growth is unsustainable and the future population cannot be supported by Earth's resources |
net migration | the difference between the number of emigrants and immigrants in a location such as city of country |
physiological density | the total number of people per unit of arable land |
population density | the number of people occupying a unit of land |
population distribution | where people live in a geographic area |
population pyramid | a graph that shows age-sex distribution |
pronatalist | describing attitudes or policies that encourage child-bearing as a means of spurring population growth |
pull factor | a positive cause that attracts someone to a new location |
push factor | a negative cause that causes someone to leave a location |
quotas | limit on number of immagrints allowed in a country each year |
rate of natural increase (RNI) | rate at which a population grows as a result of the difference between crude birth rate and crude death rate |
refugees | a person who is forced to leave their country for fear of persecution |
relocation diffusion | the spread of culture traits through movement of people |
remittances | money earned by an immagrint abroad and sent back to their home country |
sex ratio | the proportion of males to females in the population |
step migration | serise of smaller moves to get to an ultimate destination |
total fertility rate (TFR) | the average number of children one woman in a iven region will have in her child bearing years (15-49) |
transnational migration | international migration in which people retain strong cultural, emotional, and financial titles with their countries of origin |
voluntary migration | type of migration in which people make the choice to move to a new place |