Transitions
This is the stage of the Demographic Transition Model that most demographers agree the United States is in.
What is Stage 3?
Population clusters in this continent are most located in urban areas.
What is Europe?
In less developed countries, people have more children due to having this kind of society.
What is an agricultural society?
The world's population explosion coincided with this particular agricultural revolution.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
This is the process called in which people move into a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously moved there.
What is chain migration?
Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition is characterized by this type of population growth.
What is high growth?
Among the five primary areas of population density in the world, this region is considered one of them.
What is South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Western and Central Europe, or the northeast corridor of North America and Canada?
This is calculated by subtracting crude death rate from crude birth rate.
What is the natural increase rate?
During which two decades has the United States seen the greatest immigration in terms of raw numbers?
What is 1980-2000 or the 1980s and 1990s?
A person trying to move from Miami to San Diego but deciding to stop and stay in Dallas is an example of this geographic concept.
What is intervening opportunity?
This graph shows populations starting slowly, rising sharply, then leveling off.
What is the S-curve?
The term "the five toos" - too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, and too hilly - refers to this geographic concept.
What is ecumene?
Among the indicators of a country's health, this one measures the average duration a person is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
In which century did the population explosion begin?
What is the 20th century?
The movement of persons from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt is an example of this type of migration within a country.
What is interregional?
In terms of the epidemiologic transition, during which stage is there high pestilence and famine, resulting in a high crude death rate?
What is Stage 1?
What is the term for the description where foreign investment takes place, paying jobs are located, and infrastructure is concentrated to make cities more self-sufficient?
What are islands of development?
In the context of the Gravity Model, this term best describes the link between New York and Los Angeles.
What are their populations?
Who argued that the world's rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food supplies?
Who is Thomas Malthus?
The concept of Russification desires to achieve what with people from different regions or cultures?
What is assimilation (of people into the culture)?
In a population pyramid, this is the stage characterized by a high proportion of aged persons and a decreasing population.
What is Declining?
The Dust Bowl in the Great Plains is the best example of this type of push or pull factor.
What is an environmental push factor?
Among the means of population growth deterrence, this one has been the most successful, as observed in China.
What are government laws or the one-child policy?
This is when governments enforce policies which favor a race or culture over others.
What are Eugenic population policies?
This is when someone seeks protection from a country.
What is asylum seeking?