AP Human Geo Unit 2 Vocab

Number of Farmers divided by the arable land

Land suitable for farming/agriculture

Population of a region / arable (farmable) land

Population of a region divided by total land area.

Temporary marked increase in the birth rate

A complete count of of a population

Total number of child deaths per 1,000 live births

Total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people in the society

Total number of deaths per 1,000 people in a society

Number of people too young or too old to work compared to workers

Also known as a relatively developed country or a developed country, country that has progressed further along the development continuum

Number of years needed to double the population

The areas of earth occupied by human settlement

The theory that says that there is a distinct cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition model. It can help explain how a country's population changes so dramatically.

Time during the 19th century, major improvements in manufacturing goals and delivering them to market

the number of infant deaths (under age 1) per 1000 live births

Non-industrialized/poor countries.

Average number of years an infant can expect to live

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

The theory that population grows faster than food supply

Time during the late 20th countries, when medical technology from Europe and North America diffused to developing countries

The percentage of annual growth in a population excluding migration.

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

A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.

Government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase

Government policies to increase the rate of natural increase

The number of males per 100 females in the population.

The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years.

A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.

The scientific study of population characteristics

The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

An area of land where people are most dense, including East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe.

A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time.

A general term covering all types of movement from one place to another

Movement - for example, college attendance or military service - that involves temporary, recurrent relocation

The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants

reasons people emigrate and leave their homes such as economic troubles, overcrowding, poverty

movement within a region

Movement from one region to another

Change in migration patterns in a society caused by industrialisation, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition

Predicts interaction between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them.

people, typically farmers, who move from place to place to harvest fruits and vegetables

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

Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee

the loss of highly educated and skilled workers to other countries

a foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country

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

permanent movement within the same country

The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.

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.

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

Only people exhibiting certain characteristics in a population choosing to migrate

migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages

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

The area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity

An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

the buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas

Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support

methods of preventing conception

A dispersion of people from their homeland

Description of locations on Earth's surface where populations live

Migration to a new location

The production of offspring within a population

Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.

movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

Fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools

Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border

Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.

the constant flow of migrants from one country into another country

Structure of population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education

Permanent movement from rural area to the urban city area.

a curve that depicts growth; shape of an "S." The leveling off of a J-Curve exponential growth.

Permanent movement undertaken by choice.

Reasons to migrate to a new area such as Economic Opportunity ($)

any disease in which deterioration of the structure or function of tissue occurs

The number of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births