People & Places (Pop. Distribution)
This type of population density measures the number of people per unit of total land area.
What is arithmetic density?
This is a country in Stage 5 of the DTM.
What is Japan or Italy?
Governments that encourage people to have more children are pursuing these types of policies.
What are pronatalist policies?
This push factor has caused many migrants to leave Syria over the last ~15 years.
Civil War
A person who is forced to flee their country because of war or persecution and crosses an international border may become this.
Refugee
This term is the maximum # of individuals that a given environment can support.
What is the carrying capacity?
This is the average number of children a woman is expected to have during her lifetime.
This theory argued that population could grow faster than the food supply, eventually creating shortages.
What is Malthusian Theory?
Ravenstein's Laws suggest that migrants generally travel shorter distances when possible, and migration decreases as distance increases. This concept is called this.
What is distance decay?
Unlike a refugee, this person has been forced to flee their home but remains within the borders of their own country.
What is an internally displaced person (IDP)?
A country has a large percentage of people younger than 14 and older than 65. THIS MEASUREMENT would likely be high.
What is the dependency ratio?
This region of the world has many countries in Stage 2. of the DTM (rapidly declining death rates, birth rates remain relatively high, very rapid population growth).
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
A government provides free contraception, reproductive education, and access to sterilization in an effort to reduce fertility rates. These policies are examples of this.
What are antinatalist policies / family planning?
A migrant wants to move from a rural village to a major city. A closer small city offers similar employment opportunities, so the migrant settles there instead. This illustrates this concept from Lee's Model.
What is an intervening opportunity?
A Mexican worker moves to the United States for several years to work and sends part of their earnings back to their family in Mexico (remittance). This type of migrant is known as ________.
What is a guest worker?
This term refers to the portion of Earth's land surface where humans permanently live.
What is the ecumene?
This can follow a Baby Boom and is visible on a population pyramid.
Echo
A highly educated doctor leaves their home country for a higher-paying job abroad. The origin country loses valuable human capital while the destination country gains it. This process is known as this.
What are brain drain and brain gain?
This is the most common category of push and pull factors. It inspires the most people to move.
What are economic factors?
A migrant moves to a new city because several relatives and friends from their hometown have already settled there and can help them find housing and employment. This pattern is known as this.
What is chain migration?
What is physiological density?
A country has a crude birth rate of 30 and a crude death rate of 10. Its rate of natural increase is this specific number.
What is 2% (20 per 1000, or 20/10 = 2).
Unlike Malthus, another person argued that population pressure could encourage societies to develop new technologies and agricultural practices, increasing food production. This is known as this theory.
What is Boserup Theory?
This event in 1947 uprooted many families and forced people to move based on their religion (Hinduism and Islam).
What is the Partition of India?
A person fleeing political persecution arrives in another country and formally requests protection but has not yet been granted refugee status. This person is known as this.
What is an asylum seeker?