Unit 2 Vocab - Human Geography - Irondale

The number of people living on the planet. Currently near 8 billion and growing fastest in Less Developed Countries

A periodic count of the number of people living in an area.

Tells us how quickly a population is increasing or decreasing every year. Measured by subtracting CDR from CBR.

The number of live births per every 1000 people every year.

The number of deaths per every 1000 people every year.

The number of people coming into or leaving the country every year. Measured by scratching the number of emigrants from the number of immigrants.

Explains how fast a given population grows. Measured using this formula: (CBR

Population data is broken down into different age groups and by gender, then displayed in a pyramid graph.

The number of people in a given area (square mile or square kilometer usually).

the average period that a person may expect to live

the average number of children that a woman will have in her lifetime

The number of babies, out of every 1000 babies born, that die within their first year of life.

how many people a certain environment (country) can safely support considering resources and services

the total population divided by the arable land and agricultural land

visuals to categorize different countries based on population indicators

Hunter

Agricultural Stage

Industrial Stage

Tertiary Stage

Declining Stage

An English economist who came up with the theory that the population would rise faster than the food needed to feed itself.

Anything that raises the crude death rate, such as a famine or war.

Something that decreases the crude birth rate, such as people deciding to have fewer children.

A semi permanent move to a new place

A permanent move to a new country

When someone permanently moves out of a country

A semi permanent move within a country

A semi permanent move from one country to another

A person decides to relocate because they want to, for example for better job opportunities.

A person feels that they have no choice but to relocate because of reasons such as war, persecution or natural disaster.

A person who is forced to move because of war, persecution or natural disasters

The illegal trade of human beings, a modern

movement away from home for a short time that is repeated

a type of cyclical movement, on a seasonal basis

moving from one spot to another, in search of food for example

movement that takes place for an extended period of time and then does not happen again for a long time

the worker is hired by a company to move and work at a job for a certain amount of time but when the contract is over the migrant goes home

when a person is in the armed services and is assigned to a post overseas

Anything that causes a person to migrate away from a place.

Anything that encourages someone to move to a place.

Limits that determine the amount of people that are allowed to immigrate each year.

allow governments to give preference to certain groups of people

Analyzes the relationship between how far an immigrant is willing to move and how much interaction they desire with their old location.

the closer two locations are to each other the more interaction businesses and people will have with each other.

Helps to explain why groups of immigrants tend to travel to the same place. When a person moves to a new place they communicate to friends and relatives back home, encouraging them to move as well.