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Age Distribution |
the distributions of age in a population |
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Carrying Capacity |
the largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support |
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Cohort |
a population group that’s distinguished by a certain characteristic |
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Demographic Equation |
equation that summarizes the amount of growth or decline in a population during a certain period of time, also taking into account net migration and natural increase |
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Demographic Transition Model |
sequence of demographic changes in which a country mover from a high CDR and a high CBR, to having a low CDR and a low CBR |
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Dependency Ratio |
ratio of the economically dependent part of the population to the productive part |
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Doubling Time |
time it takes for a country to double its population |
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Ecumene |
meeting place for the world’s religions and ideologies |
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Infant Mortality Rate |
however many infants die per thousand per year |
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J-curve |
the correlation between stability and openness |
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Maladaptation |
an adaptation that does more harm than good |
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Thomas Malthus |
British demographer that suggested that a massive plague or epidemic would ‘check’ the population |
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Mortality |
, and mortality rate being how many people die per thousand, CDR |
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Natality |
birth rate, or CBR |
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Neo-Malthusian |
Advocacy of population control programs to enough resources for current and future populations |
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Population Densities |
measurements of number of people per a unit of land area |
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Population Distributions |
the distributions of different specifications of populations |
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Population Explosion |
population booms (low CDR and high CBR) |
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Population Projection |
the estimated population in a certain time in the future |
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Population Pyramid |
a pyramid-like diagram that displays the population distributions between age and sex |
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Rate of Natural Increase |
difference of CDR and CBR in a given country in a year |
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S-curve |
the curve that defines how rate at which technology is advancing |
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Sustainability |
how well a country can supply its residents with the proper needs |
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Zero Population Growth |
CDR and the CBR of a country even out |
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Activity Space |
places in a local area in which cyclic movement occurs |
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Chain Migration |
people follow others of preceding friends or family I their migratory paths |
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Cyclic Movement |
repetitive movement in a short periods of time (back-and-forth movement) |
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Distance Decay |
the interaction of places decreases as the distance increases |
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Gravity Model |
interaction of places based on their population, sizes, and distances between them |
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Internal Migration |
movement within a country’s borders |
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Intervening Opportunity |
an opportunity that arises or occurs before the reaching of the initial goal |
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Migration Patterns |
patterns of movement; Intercontinental- over countries’ borders, Interregional- within a region or certain area, Rural-Urban- from a rural area to an urban area (farm to a city) |
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Migratory Movement |
movement that consists of one person migrating from one place to another |
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Periodic Movement |
movement involving longer periods of time further away from home |
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Push-Pull Factor |
a reason why a migrant might leave or move to a place |
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Refugee |
a person who has a fear of being caught in means of race, religion, ethnicity, group, or political views |
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Space-Time Prism |
set of all points that can be reached by an individual given a maximum possible speed from a starting point |
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Step Migration |
migration involving people to move upward as far as rural to urban, such as farm, then the outskirts, an average neighborhood, then to a city |
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Transhumance |
a system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability of pastures |
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Transmigration |
movement that consists of one person migrating from one place to another |
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