Demographic Model
High Birth and Death Rates. Stable Population
Stage 1
The study of the physical, biological, and cultural features on Earth’s surface
Geography
When ideas are spread through the movement of people
Relocation Diffusion
People forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster.
This factor induces people to move out of their present location
Push Factors
Decreasing Birth rate, Stable Death Rate, and population stable or start of decline
Stage 5
Two Types of Geography
Human and Physical
Area made up of different places that are linked and work together..
Functional Region
Increased time off for parents and tax breaks for families to increase birth rates are examples of what policy.
Pronatalist
Number of people in the area can support on a sustained basis
Carrying Capacity
A revolution that allowed for rapidly declining death rates in the 2nd stage of the DTM.
The Medical Revolution or the Industrial Revolution
Divides the globe in East and West Hemispheres
Prime Meridian
Area that reflects human feelings and attitudes
perceptual region
The number of people per unit of area of and arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture
Physiological Density
Permanent movement within one region of a country
Intraregional Migration
The one approach to reducing birth rates in countries that will lead to stage 3 DTM conditions..
education or birth control
MR LIP
Movement, Region, Interaction between H/E, Place
The process of by which places change from within over time, for example American language
Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
Chain Migration
Permanent movement compelled by cultural or environmental factors
forced migration
Birth rates start to decrease and the population has a lower rate of increase
Stage 3
the process of an idea being spread rapidly throughout the population; all places and individuals in the region are affected
Contagious diffusion
a type of cultural diffusion that occurs when something spreads from influential society to lower society.
Hierarchical Diffusion
prediction that population growth will inevitably outpace food production, resulting in widespread famine.
Malthusian Theory
A portion of earth's surface occupied permanently by human settlement.
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