Vocab Quiz #2 (teacher def.)

Infant Mortality Rate

The number of infants per thousand who die before reaching 1 yr

Internally Displaced Person

Someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country’s borders

Global Analysis

Examines patterns and interactions that span across multiple countries and continents

Refugee

Someone with a “well-founded fear of being persecuted” in their country of origin

Theocracy

A government guided by a religion

Chain Migration

Pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links

Placelessness

The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next

National Analysis

Examines data, patterns, and processes across an entire country treated as a single unit

Guest Worker

A foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis

Gravity Model

A mathematical formula to express gravitational force; social scientists seek analogous formulas in human activities

Local Analysis

Examines geographic patterns and human processes in a small, specific area, such as a single neighborhood, town, or city

Shintoism

Located in Japan and related to Buddhism; focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship

Regional Analysis

Examines data and spatial patterns across an area larger than a single city or country, but smaller than the entire globe

Remittance

Money migrants send back to families and friends in their home countries

Census

An official enumeration of the population

Physiological Density

Type of density that shows population distribution and carrying capacity

Relocation Diffusion

Type of diffusion associated with migration

Perceptual Region

A region that only exists as a conceptualization or idea and not as a physically demarcated entity

Hierarchical Diffusion

A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples

Malthus

Claimed that geometric growth of population would eventually exceed the arithmetic growth of resources