Unit 2 Vocabulary Quiz Flashcards

These flashcards cover 30 key vocabulary terms related to population geography, suitable for a quiz.

Arithmetic Population Density

The total number of people divided by the total land area.

Physiological Population Density

The number of people per unit area of arable (farmable) land.

Agricultural Population Density

The number of farmers per unit area of arable land.

Carrying Capacity

The maximum population size of a species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the available resources.

Cohort

A group of individuals sharing a common demographic experience, such as being born in the same year or period.

Dependency Ratio

The number of people too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years.

Immigration

The act of moving into a foreign country or region to live there permanently.

Emigration

The act of leaving one's own country or region to settle permanently in another.

Doubling Time

The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.

Anti-natalist Policy

A government policy that aims to discourage births in an effort to control population growth.

Pro-natalist Policy

A government policy that aims to encourage births, often through financial incentives, to increase population growth.

Push Factor

A factor that encourages people to leave their native region for another location.

Pull Factor

A factor that attracts migrants to a new location.

Intervening obstacle

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.

Intervening opportunity

An alternative destination that a migrant finds more attractive than the original destination.

Step migration

Migration that occurs in a series of steps, moving from a rural area to a small town, then a larger town, and finally a city.

Internally displaced person (IDP)

Someone who is forced to flee their home but remains within their country's borders.

Refugee

Someone who has been forced to flee their country because of persecution, war, or violence.

Chain migration

The migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.

Asylum seeker

Someone who has migrated to another country hoping to be recognized as a refugee.

Guest worker

A person with temporary legal permission to work in another country, often to fill labor shortages.

Transhumance

The seasonal migration of livestock (and the herders who tend them) between mountains and lowland pastures.

Brain Drain

The emigration of highly skilled workers or professionals from a country or region.

Remittance

Money sent by migrants to their relatives in their home country.

Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

The total number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a given year.

Crude Death Rate (CDR)

The total number of deaths per 1,000 people in a population in a given year.

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years.

Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)

The number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births.

Rate of Natural Increase (RNI) / Natural Increase Rate (NIR)

The percentage by which a population grows in a year (CBR - CDR, expressed as a percentage).

Ecumene

The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.