Population
Migration
Models, Theories, Policies, Laws
Themes
Maps and Vocab
Industry
100

Which region of the world is the most populous? 

Asia 

100

Nomadism is an example of what kind of migration?

Cyclic

100

This English economist argued that population will increase exponentially and food production will increase gradually. 

Thomas Malthus

100

How the environment and humans impact each other

Human-Environment Interaction

100

The art or science of map making

Cartography

100

Where the industrial revolution started

England

200

What does the rate of natural increase not account for?

Immigration

200

The things that make people want to leave a country

Push Factors. What makes us want to stay?

200

This model attempts to show the relationship between birth rate, death rate, and rate of natural increase in 5 stages.

Demographic Transition Model

200

How the geographical position of people and things on the Earth's surface affects what happens and why

Location

200

The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support.

Carrying Capacity

200

Decreasing reliance on manufacturing jobs, usually in favor of service jobs.

Deindustrializaiton

300

Population policies meant to favor one racial or cultural group over others.

Eugenics

300

When a migrant finds a job along the migration path, this is called a...

Intervening Opportunity

300

This man proposed 5 Laws of Migration, summarizing the effects of push and pull factors.

Ernst Ravenstein

300

The concentration of geographical features in certain areas

Region

300

The belief that our culture is controlled or set by the surrounding environment

Environmental Determinism

300

When one job creates multiple other jobs

Multiplier effect

400

What are 3 non-violent anti-natalist policies?

Contraceptives availability, financial incentive, birth restrictions, etc.

400

When family members follow other immigrants to the same destination at a later date.

Chain Migration

400

There are no countries in this stage of the Demographic Transition Model

Stage 1

400
Infusing a location with an emotional sense or feeling through human interaction

Place

400

The further apart things are, the weaker the relationship between them

Distance Decay

400

Theory that proposes factory owners locate factories by minimizing three specific needs.

Least Cost Theory

500

If a country wants to implement pro-natalist policies, what are 3 examples they could try? 

Financial incentives, "Day of Conception", propaganda, etc.

500

This would argue that size is more important than distance for determining a destination in migration.

Gravity Model

500

What kept Malthusian Theory from being completely accurate?

Human invention. Agricultural Revolution.

500

The mobility and spatial interaction of humans and our ideas with various parts of the world

Movement

500

Government laws and policies meant to increase the rate of natural increase within a country.

Pro-natalist policies

500

When an industry can pick up and move quickly and easily.

Footloose

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