APHUG unit 2 test

Question 1

arithmetic density

Answer 1

number of people ÷ land area

Question 2

physiological density

Answer 2

number of people ÷ arable land

Question 3

agricultural density

Answer 3

number of farmers ÷ arable land

Question 4

epidemiological transition model

Answer 4

describes changes in fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and population age distribution, largely as the result of change and causes of death

Question 5

economic factors that influence where people live

Answer 5

job opportunities, money, higher wages(PULL), lower wages(PUSH)

Question 6

Political factors that influence where people live

Answer 6

promises of peace and freedom, war

Question 7

social factors that influence where people live

Answer 7

religious freedom(PULL), discrimination(PUSH), education

Question 8

environmental factors that influence where people live

Answer 8

water, natural disasters

Question 9

carrying capacity

Answer 9

maximum population that an environment can sustain

Question 10

crude birth rate

Answer 10

The number of births in a given year per 1000 people in a given population

Question 11

crude death rate

Answer 11

The number of deaths in a given population per year per 1000 people

Question 12

total fertility rate

Answer 12

the average number of children one woman in a given country or region will have during her childbearing years

Question 13

infant mortality rate

Answer 13

Number of deaths of children, under age of 1 per 1000 live births

Question 14

life expectancy

Answer 14

average number of years a person is expected to live

Question 15

sex ratio

Answer 15

this ratio represents the proportion of males to females in a population

Question 16

dependency ratio

Answer 16

the number of people in a dependent age group (below 15 or above 65) divided by the number of people in the working age group (15 through 64) then multiplied by 100

Question 17

population pyramid

Answer 17

used to interpret the implications of the changing structure of a population. They show the age – sex distribution of a given population.

Question 18

rate of natural increase (RNI or NIR)

Answer 18

The difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate of a defying group of people

Question 19

malthus’s theorem

Answer 19

A theory based on the promise that exponential population growth will outpace the increase in resources. Thomas Mathis was wrong.

Question 20

neo-malthusians

Answer 20

A new school of thought that vases concerns about sustainable use of the planet, (earths resources can only support finite population.)
they are kinda right

Question 21

pro-natalist

Answer 21

policies, encouraging births, and aim to accelerate population growth

Question 22

anti-natalist

Answer 22

those designed to curb population growth by discouraging citizens from having children

Question 23

quotas

Answer 23

limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year

Question 24

ravenstein’s laws on migration

Answer 24

there’s 10 (here’s 5 main ones)
1) most people move a short distance- because of distance decay and friction of distance
2) families are less likely to move
3) international migrants move to a big city
4) as people move in, people move out (counter migration)
5)most people move rural to urban

Question 25

circulation

Answer 25

temporary repetitive movements that recur on a regular basis

Question 26

intervening obstacle

Answer 26

things that get in the way of someone migrating (causes them to pause/stop)

Question 26

intervening opportunity

Answer 26

something that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice

Question 27

voluntary migration

Answer 27

people make a choice to move to a new place

Question 28

forced migration

Answer 28

people are compelled to move by economic, political, environmental, or cultural factors

Question 29

asylum

Answer 29

the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee

Question 30

transnational migration

Answer 30

immigrants to a new country retain strong cultural, emotional, and financial ties to their country of origin and may regularly return for visits

Question 31

transhumance

Answer 31

the seasonal migration from the highlands to the lowland pastures

Question 32

Demographic Transition Model (DTM)

Answer 32

represents the shifts in growth that the worlds populations have undergone & are still experiencing over time

Question 33

chain migration

Answer 33

People move to a location because other from their community have previously migrated there

Question 34

step migration

Answer 34

moving in steps not all at once

Question 35

arable land

Answer 35

land suitable for growing crops

Question 36

doubling time

Answer 36

the # of years in which a population growing at a certain rate will double (70/NIR= DT)

Question 37

remittance

Answer 37

a migrant who moves and works to send money back to the host country where the family is located

Question 38

brain drain

Answer 38

loss of trained/educated people to the lure of work in another (often richer) country

Question 39

acculturation

Answer 39

the process where groups of people or individuals from different cultures come into contact and, as a result, change their cultural patterns by adopting traits, beliefs, or behaviors of the other group

Question 40

Assimilation

Answer 40

the process where individuals or groups from one culture adopt the customs, values, and beliefs of another, often dominant, culture, frequently resulting in the loss of their original cultural identity