Unit 2 Population Vocabulary Quiz

Population of various age categories in an age-sex population pyramid

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

The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A ecosystem is one that can be maintained

types of push/pull factors that aid a migrant's decision to go where family or friends are

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

Quantity and quality of goods and services available to an individual or society.

Military personnel and families move to new locations to spend tours of duty, up to a few yrs

The relocation of people away from overpopulated core regions to less crowded areas

The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures

The space within which daily activity occurs

Diseases that are caused by infecting organisms; they can be passed from person to person

permanent movement within a particular country

incapable of commitment. inability to stay in one place job relationship

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

Money migrant send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash,

interactions occurring within a region, in a regional setting

The relocation of people away from overpopulated core regions to less crowded areas

The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals

Relates to growth an decline in the natural increase

The average number of children a mother is having in a particular area.

The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area

someone who is forced to leave his or her home & community but who remains in the same country

Place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment

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

Number of people who are too young/too old COMPARED to those who are at the right age to work.

number of people aged 65 years and older per 100 children aged zero to 14 years in a population

All are example of pandemics except...

German, British and Irish moving to the US in the 1800's is an example of ___.

People born within the same year is an example of ____.

Annual number of deaths of infants under the age of 1..

Being sent back home, the removal or banishment of someone.

Legal immigrant who has a work visa, usually short term.

Annual number of live births per 1,000 people in the population of an area

an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that helps migration

The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.

The scientific study of population characteristics.

A complete counting of a population.

An adaptation that has become less helpful than harmful

A measure of an person's satisfaction or approval of a place in its social or econ attributes.

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

A disease or condition regularly found among particular people or in a certain area

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

War, Famine or Economic downturn would be an example of ___.

movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced

A population group unified by a specific common characteristic, such as age, and subsequently 

The description of a population according to characteristics such as age and sex.

the surrounding area over which a person makes a claim to territorial privacy

An adaptation that has become less helpful than before, but not harmful

Describes the number of children that die between the 1st & 5th years in a given population

Large coalescing supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world

A person who flees their home country due to a well-founded fear of danger/persecution

the desirability of a place based on its social, economic, and environmental situations

Percentage by which a population grows in a year.

the surrounding area over which a person makes a claim to territorial privacy

A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live

a curve that depicts logistic growth;

Permanent movement within a particular country

Movement that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally

Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors

Permanent movement from suburbs and rural area to the urban city area

Curves Gym for women is an example of _____.

The spread of birth control, such as contraception

describes human movement from a source to a destination without a return journey

Permanent movement from one country to another.

Government policy designed to reduce the rate of natural increase.

A drop or decrease in a region's population.

Theory that builds upon Malthus' thoughts on overpopulation

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is an example of

Factors that influence a migrant's decision to go where friends have already found success.

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

Estimation of future population growth, by viewing current trends and known growth factors.

The use of a service at a location is related to the number of people in a location

A series of small, less extreme location changes

movement that involves temporary, recurrent relocation

A place of retreat or security

permanent movement from one country to another

Permanent movement from one region of the country to another

The number of males per 100 females in the population.

Where natural birth rate declines to equal CBR and the natural rate of population approaches 0.

a negative factor that induces people to leave old places and move to new locations

Explains how a country's population changes so dramatically.

The proportion of individuals of different ages within a population.

Model used in population geography that describes the ages & number of males and females

Migration of people to a location because relatives or friends previously migrated there

How disease spreads in a population?

An epidemic that is geographically widespread and affects a large proportion of the population.

Government policy that encourages large families and raises the rate of population growth

Laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state.

The concentration of people in a certain area

Diagrams where a curve initially falls, then steeply rises above the starting point

An epidemic that is geographically widespread and affects a large proportion of the population.

Action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle

Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year