AP HuG Essential Terms Unit 2

a bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex

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

the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of arable land

Process of change in a society’s population from high CBR & CDR and low NIR to low CBR & CDR and low to negative NIR

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

Migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps toward a final destination

 people who are forced to leave their country & cannot return for fear of persecution because of race, religion, etc.

Migration from non-metropolitan areas to metropolitan areas beginning with Industrial Revolution - led to urbanization

The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate

AKA chain migration, when migration of people to a specific location is due to relatives previously migrating there

The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, & medical conditions

the number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force

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

permanent movement, compelled by cultural or environmental factors

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

Theory that population is growing much faster than food supply, which will lead to famine low quality of life

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

Government policy that supports higher birth rates is:

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

a factor that induces people to leave old locations

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

Total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society

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

someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an interna

The process of change in the distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition