Chapter 3 - Geographies of Population and Migration

Mobility

________ is the capacity to move from one place to another, either permanently or temporarily.

Fertility

________ and mortality rates provide key insights into how well a country, region, or city is able to provide for its population, especially in terms of income, education, and health care.

central indicators

Birth and death rates are simple but ________ of a places level of economic development.

Migration

________ is an actual long-distance move to a new location.

Medical

________ and health geographers help us to understand how a place can support healthy bodies or how it constitutes the condition for disease and poor health.

Pull factors

________ are forces of attraction that influence migrants to move to a particular location.

Population geographers

________ bring to demography a special perspective- the spatial perspective- that emphasizes description and explanation of the "where "of population distribution, patterns, and processes.