Malthus et al
What did Malthus believe?
Famine in developing countries can be explained by their patterns and population growth
A bar graph that displays a country's population by age and gender
What is a Population Pyramid
A policy of population control in China, where a married couple is allowed only one child
What is the One-Child Policy
What is a refugee
Someone who is forced to leave their home country
Most people migrate for ___________ reasons
What is economic?
Neo-Mathusians believe
World population is overtaxing other resources like fuel and energy
The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement
What is Ecumene
A government policy or law that promotes population
What is pro-natalist?
What is an internally displaced person (IDP)?
Someone who is forced to migrate within their own country due to environmental, political or social issues
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that aids migration
What is an intervening opportunity?
What debunked Malthus?
The Industrial Revolution
What are some consequences of an aging population?
An increase in global life expectancy, coupled with decreased fertility rates, is the main reason for the aging population in most countries.
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
What is The Total Fertility Rate
What are migrant workers called?
Guest workers
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape than hinders migration
What is an intervening obstacle?
How your goldendoodle was made
What is Crude Birth Rate?
Number of Births a year per one thousand people.
Countries with anti-natalist policies tend to see what happen to their population
What is a higher dependency ratio?
Migration from a location
What is emigration?
A man migrates from Guatemala to the United States and earns money to allow for his wife and children to follow him to the United States. This is an example of
Chain migration
Malthus's theories are often connected to concerns about this 21st-century global issue?
Overpopulation
What is the dependency ratio and how do we calculate it?
number of people in a dependent age group ÷number of people in the working-age group, x 100
What causes reduced fertility rates across the world?
The social structure, religious beliefs, economic prosperity and urbanization within each country are likely to affect birth rates as well as abortion rates.
Permanent movement compelled by cultural or environmental factors
What is forced migration?
Describe 3 of Ravenstein's 9 Laws of migration
1) Most migrants go only a short distance
2) Migration proceeds step by step
3) Migrants traveling long distances generally go by preference to one of the great centers of commerce or industry, like cities.
4) Each current of migration produces a compensating counter-current, called counter migration
5) Natives of towns are less migratory than those of rural areas
6) Females are more migratory than males within the kingdom of their birth, but males more frequently venture beyond
7) Most migrants are adults: families rarely migrate out of their country of birth
8) Large towns/cities grow more by migration than by natural increase
9) Migration increases in volume as industries and commerce develop and transport improves