Population and Migration
This model explains how birth and death rates change as a country develops economically.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
This term refers to a group of languages related by a common ancestral tongue.
What is a language family?
This term describes a country with a unified population that shares common cultural traits and sovereignty.
What is a nation-state?
a tool that shows direction and location
what is a map
a state with the same ethnicity
what is a nation state
This density measure calculates the number of people per unit of arable land.
What is physiological density?
This type of cultural diffusion occurs when people physically move and carry their cultural traits with them.
What is relocation diffusion?
a boundary that uses latitude and longitude to work
What is a geometric boundary?
the line that measures north-south location
what is latitude
country with various ethnicities
what is a multinational state
This type of migration occurs when people have no choice but to leave due to war, disasters, or persecution.
What is forced migration?
This process occurs when a minority culture adopts elements of a dominant culture.
What is acculturation?
A type of process of making districts where the maps look misdrawn and out of place
What is gerrymandering?
the line that measures east-west
what is longitude
population that shares a cultural background but lives in more than 1 country
what is a multi state nation
This population trend describes the rapid increase in the world’s population during the last two centuries.
What is exponential population growth?
This is the name for a common language used for trade among speakers of different native languages.
What is a lingua franca?
A super national organization that is in Europe
What is the European Union?
a boundary that is drawn over existing borders by an outside power
superimposed boundries
power is shared between a federal government and its regional units
what is a federal state
This theory states that population grows faster than food production, leading to shortages.
What is Malthusian theory?
This term refers to a large region defined by shared cultural traits such as language, religion, and social traditions.
What is a cultural realm?
A state with may different ethnicities in it.
What is a multinational state with multiple ethnic groups?
drawn in areas that have been settled by people after someone already lived there.
more power is held by a central government and maintains authority over that territory
what is a unitary state