vocab
The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support.
What is this called?
carrying capacity
what is the Epidemiological Transition model?
The process of change in the distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.
What's the focus politics for the 21st century?
Addressing border social issues, aid countries and economic development, fighting AIDS or HIV's, and focused on gender empowerment and inequality.
What factors influence the distribution of population?
Natural, environmental, physical, economic, social, cultural, and political.
Why do people migrate?
Push factors such as job loss, lack of employment.
pull factors such as higher wages or seasonal jobs.
A legal immigrant who has a work visa, usually short term.
What is this called?
guest worker
What is Boserup's Theory?
When the food supply is impacted directly by population growth. For example, as the population increases humans will develop new technologies to increase production of food supply
What political factors cause populations to grow and decline?
population growth- Pro-natalist population policies and a shift from War to peace and for population decline. population decline- anti-natalist policies and war.
How do economic factors influence the distribution of population?
by giving job opportunities and access to natural resources.
What's the difference between emigration and migration?
The movement into a location and migration is the movement away from a location.
A factor that induces people to move to a new location and a factor that induces to move out of there present location.
What is this called?
push and pull factors
What is the Malthusian theory?
populations grow exponentially while food output only grows arithmetically, resulting in a food shortage and famine due to overpopulation.
What redistricting?
It's the process or redrawing electoral district boundaries after the census every 10 years.
What are the historical trends through population growth? What's an example?
Historical growth was very low. examples are Agricultural Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Rapid Urbanization, and the advances in healthcare and sanitation.
What is internal migration and inter regional migration and intra regional migration?
internal migration- is the permanent movement within a particular country
inter regional migration- is movement from one region in a country to another.
intra regional migration- movement within a region.
someone who has migrated to another country in hope of being recognized as a refugee.
What is this called?
Asylum seeker
The process of change in society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and a low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population.
What model is this describing?
Demographic transition Model
What is a Anti-natalist policy?
a government program designed to decrease the fertility rate and slow down population growth.
Where are people most-likely to settle in?
Places with low elevation , fertile soil, temperate climates, and near a body of water.
what are the two types of migration?
Voluntary migration and involuntary migration (forced migration)
The difference between the level of immigration and level of emigration.
What is this called?
net migration
1. Migration flowing both ways
2. Migration usually moves a short distance
3. Migrants who move longer distances tend to move to well known cities
4. urban residents are less likely to migrate than those living in a rural area.
5. Families are less likely to move out of the country than young adults.
what law is this?
Ravenstein's Law
What is pro-natalist population policies?
A government program designed to increase the fertility rate and it accelerates population growth.
Where is population most distributed?
East Asia, South Asia, South-East Asia, and Western Europe.
what are some effects on migration?
Economic growth, less strain of resources, and new religion and culture.