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A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. - ✔✔Population Pyramids
A belief that the world is characterized by scarcity and competition in which too many people fight for
too few resources. Named for Thomas Malthus, who predicted a dismal cycle of misery, vice, and
starvation as a result of human overpopulation - ✔✔Neo-Malthusian
A complete count of of a population - ✔✔Census
a curve that depicts growth; shape of an "S." The leveling off of a J-Curve exponential growth. -
✔✔S-curve
A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. - ✔✔Zero
Population Growth
A dispersion of people from their homeland - ✔✔Diaspora
a foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country - ✔✔guest worker
%
A general term covering all types of movement from one place to another - ✔✔Mobility
a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality,
membership of a particular social group, or political opinion - ✔✔Refugee
A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low
birth and death rates through time. - ✔✔Demographic Transition Model
A set of 11 "laws" that can be organized into three groups: the reasons why migrants move, the
distance they typically move, and their characteristics. - ✔✔Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
Also known as a relatively developed country or a developed country, country that has progressed
further along the development continuum - ✔✔More Developed Country (MDC)
An area of land where people are most dense, including East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and
Europe. - ✔✔Population Center
An English economist who was one of the first to argue that the world's population increase was far
outrunning the development of food production - ✔✔Thomas Malthus
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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. - ✔✔intervening
obstacle
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. -
✔✔urbanization
any disease in which deterioration of the structure or function of tissue occurs - ✔✔degenerative
disease
Average number of years an infant can expect to live - ✔✔Life Expectancy
Change in migration patterns in a society caused by industrialisation, population growth, and other
social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition - ✔✔Migration Transition
Description of locations on Earth's surface where populations live - ✔✔Distribution
Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location. - ✔✔Migration
Fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and
communication systems, power plants, and schools - ✔✔infrastructure
%
Government policies to increase the rate of natural increase - ✔✔Pro-Natalist Policies
Government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase - ✔✔Anti-Natalist Policies
Land suitable for farming/agriculture - ✔✔Arable Land
Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support - ✔✔carrying capacity
methods of preventing conception - ✔✔contraception (birth control)
migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages - ✔✔step migration
Migration to a new location - ✔✔Immigration
Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries - ✔✔remittance
Movement - for example, college attendance or military service - that involves temporary, recurrent
relocation - ✔✔Periodic movement
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A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. - ✔✔Population Pyramids
A belief that the world is characterized by scarcity and competition in which too many people fight for
too few resources. Named for Thomas Malthus, who predicted a dismal cycle of misery, vice, and
starvation as a result of human overpopulation - ✔✔Neo-Malthusian
A complete count of of a population - ✔✔Census
a curve that depicts growth; shape of an "S." The leveling off of a J-Curve exponential growth. -
✔✔S-curve
A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. - ✔✔Zero
Population Growth
A dispersion of people from their homeland - ✔✔Diaspora
a foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country - ✔✔guest worker
%
A general term covering all types of movement from one place to another - ✔✔Mobility
a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality,
membership of a particular social group, or political opinion - ✔✔Refugee
A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low
birth and death rates through time. - ✔✔Demographic Transition Model
A set of 11 "laws" that can be organized into three groups: the reasons why migrants move, the
distance they typically move, and their characteristics. - ✔✔Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
Also known as a relatively developed country or a developed country, country that has progressed
further along the development continuum - ✔✔More Developed Country (MDC)
An area of land where people are most dense, including East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and
Europe. - ✔✔Population Center
An English economist who was one of the first to argue that the world's population increase was far
outrunning the development of food production - ✔✔Thomas Malthus
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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. - ✔✔intervening
obstacle
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. -
✔✔urbanization
any disease in which deterioration of the structure or function of tissue occurs - ✔✔degenerative
disease
Average number of years an infant can expect to live - ✔✔Life Expectancy
Change in migration patterns in a society caused by industrialisation, population growth, and other
social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition - ✔✔Migration Transition
Description of locations on Earth's surface where populations live - ✔✔Distribution
Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location. - ✔✔Migration
Fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and
communication systems, power plants, and schools - ✔✔infrastructure
%
Government policies to increase the rate of natural increase - ✔✔Pro-Natalist Policies
Government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase - ✔✔Anti-Natalist Policies
Land suitable for farming/agriculture - ✔✔Arable Land
Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support - ✔✔carrying capacity
methods of preventing conception - ✔✔contraception (birth control)
migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages - ✔✔step migration
Migration to a new location - ✔✔Immigration
Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries - ✔✔remittance
Movement - for example, college attendance or military service - that involves temporary, recurrent
relocation - ✔✔Periodic movement
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