Unit 2 Vocabulary

Population Vocabulary (Chapter 2) (Click for Google Doc)

1. Age distribution

2. Anti-natalist policies (Restrictive population policies)

3. Arable

4. Arithmetic population density

5. Baby boom / Baby bust

6. Birth deficit

7. Carrying capacity

8. Census

9. Child mortality rate

10. Cohort

11. Crude birth rate

12. Crude death rate

13. Demographic equation

14. Demographic momentum

15. Demographic Transition Model

16. Dependency ratio

17. Doubling time

18. Ecumene

19. Epidemiological Transition model

20. Eugenic population policies

21. Expansive population pyramid

22. Infant mortality rate

23. J-curve

24. Life expectancy

25. Malthus, Thomas

26. Maternal mortality rate

27. Megalopolis

28. Mortality

29. Natality

30. Neo-Malthusian

31. One child policy

32. Physiological population density

33. Population composition

34. Population density

35. Population distribution

36. Population explosion

37. Population projection

38. Population pyramid

39. Pro-natalist policies (Expansive population policies)

40. Rate of natural increase

41. Sex ratio

42. Stationary population level

43. Stationary population pyramid

44. Total fertility rate

45. Underpopulation

46. Zero population growth

Migration Vocabulary (Chapter 3)

47. Activity space

48. Asylum

49. Brain Drain

50. Chain migration

51. Counter migration

52. Cyclic movement

53. Deportation

54. Distance decay

55. Emigrants

56. Forced migration

57. Gravity model

58. Guest workers

59. Immigrants

60. Internal migration

61. Internally displaced persons

62. Intervening opportunity

63. Migrant labor

64. Migration patterns

Intercontinental

Interregional

Rural-urban

65. Periodic movement

66. Pull factors

67. Push factors

68. Quotas

69. Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration

70. Refugees

71. Remittances

72. Repatriation

73. Space-time prism

74. Step migration

75. Transhumance

76. Voluntary migration

77. Xenophobia / Nativism