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Rubenstein Vocabulary Chapter 2

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1. Arithmetic density   show
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2. Physiological density   show
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show birth rate, the number of live births per year per thousand population.  
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show death rate, the number of deaths per year per thousand population.  
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show a dramatic increase in world population since 1900. The crucial element triggering this explosion has been a dramatic decrease in the death rate, particularly for infants and children, in most of the world.  
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show the process of change in a society’s 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.  
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show when the total fertility rate ( measured as the average number of children born per woman between ages 15 to 44 years of age) or TFR is at 2.1 which is a stabilized population, one that does not increase or decrease.  
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11. Population pyramid   show
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show a group of individuals who share a common temporal demographic experience; not necessarily bases only on age, but may also be defined based on criteria such as time of marriage or time of graduation; all individuals in a certain age range.  
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13. Diaspora   show
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show culturally specific notions of what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman, are closely tied to how many children are produced by couples.  
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show the number of infants per 1,000 live births who die before reaching one year of age.  
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show the survival of a land  
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22. Pandemic   show
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show summarizes the contribution made to regional population change over time by the combination of natural change (difference between births and deaths) and net migration (difference between in  
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24. Dependency ratio   show
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25. Rate of natural increase   show
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26. Doubling time   show
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27. J-Curve   show
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show the horizontal bending or leveling of an exponential or J-curve  
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show that part of the earth’s surface physically suitable for permanent human settlement; the permanently inhabited areas of the earth.  
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30. Overpopulation   show
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show circumstances of too few people to sufficiently develop the resources of a country or region to improve the level of living of its inhabitants.  
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show the number of people an area can support on a sustained basis given the prevailing technology.  
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33. Population projection   show
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35. Demographic momentum   show
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show population geography, the study of the spatial and ecological aspects of population, including density, distribution, fertility, gender, living standard, health, age, nutrition, mortality, and mobility.  
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37. Push Factor   show
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38. Pull Factor   show
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39. Voluntary   show
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40. Forced   show
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41. Transnational migrant   show
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42. Refugee   show
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show permanent movement from one continent to another.  
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44. Interregional Migration Pattern   show
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show permanent movement within one region of a country.  
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46. rural to urban   show
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show in human movement and migration studies, a measure of an individual’s perceived satisfaction for approval of a place in its social, economic, or environmental attributes.  
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48. Activity space   show
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49. Personal space   show
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50. Space- time prism   show
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show the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems  
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52. Gravity Model   show
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show the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance form its origin.  
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54. Step Migration   show
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55. Chain Migration   show
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show the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminished the attractiveness of sites farther away.  
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57. Intervening obstacle   show
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show movement, for example: nomadic migration, that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally.  
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show periodic movement involving millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances.  
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show change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.  
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show the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.  
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62. Internal Migration   show
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63. International Migration   show
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64. Migration   show
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