Population Pyramids
Migration
Rates and Equations
Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
100
On a population pyramid, women are on what side of the graph?
What is the right?
100
2. The majority of migrants move a short distance. What is the origin of this rule?
What is Laws of Migration?
100
The TFR needed to sustain a popultion (#).
What is 2.1?
100

What does epidemiological data show us? 

How people are dying 

100

The right to protection in the first country a refugee arrives in.

What is asylum?

200
A pyramid that holds a large base and small top is likely in which stage of development?
What is Stage 1?
200
A type of movement that includes short periods away from home.
What is Cyclic Movement?
200
Death rate for persons under the age of one years old per thousand of live births.
What is Infant Mortality Rate?
200
Number of people per unit of arable land.
What is Physiological Density?
200

What is carrying capacity? 

  • the number of people an area can sustain without critically straining its resources
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300
Another common term for a population pyramid.
What is Age Structure diagram?
300

What is the difference between an intervening opportunity and obstacle? What is similar? 

Answers vary. 

300
The percentage of which a population grown in a year (crude birth rate - crude death rate).
What is Natural Increase?
300

What is the NIR of a country if the death rate is: 50 and the birth rate is 42? 

(Crude birth rate − Crude death rate) / 10 = -.08%

300

What can the DTM model show us? 

Answers vary...

400
A nation in Stage 2 of development is likely to have population pyramid is in a chimney shape. True or False.
What is False? (Stage 3 and 4 exhibit that shape)
400

Give examples of intervening opportunities and obstacles

Answers vary...

400

The level at which a national population ceases to grow.

ZPG

400
Seasonal migration of live stock between mountains and lowland pasture areas.
What is transhumance?
400

People that have been unsettled or uprooted within their own home/countries (ex. Hurricane Katrina victims).

What is internally displaced persons (or IDPs)?

500
A population graph can allow an inference of the following EXCEPT for what letter: a. women's development b. dependency ratio c. manufacturing environmental effects d. availability of health care and medical assistance
What is C?
500

Give a cultural, environmental, economic, political, and transportation PULL factor for the reason people migrate...

Answers will vary

500
An equation that summarizes the amount of growth or decline in a population within a country during a particular time period including natural increase and net migration.
What is the Demographic Equation?
500
A term used by gegraphers to define "inhabited land" where people have made permanent residence.
What is Ecumene?
500

What are the four different shapes of population pyramids? 

  • rapid growth: distinguished by a wide base
  • stable/slow growth: characterized by a rectangular shape
  • declining/negative growth: the base is smaller than previous cohorts
  • disrupted growth:  significant gaps in the pyramid, usually as a result of war, strict population policies, or other drastic events
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