Unit Two Review:Unit Two Review: Population Patterns (Population and

Migration)

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Demographic Transition

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Migration Vocabulary

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Migration – 100

Question:The process of moving out of a particular

country, usually the individual person's country of origin.

Answer:Emigration

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Migration – 200

Question:The migration event in which individuals

have no choice but to leave a country against their will.

Answer:Forced Migration

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Migration – 300

Question:People who leave their home because they

are forced out, but not because they are being officially relocated or enslaved.

Answer:Refugees

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Migration – 400

Question:The migration event in which individuals

follow the migratory path of preceding friends of family members to an existing

community.

Answer:Chain Migration

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Migration – 500

Question:Any forces or factors that may limit human

migration.

Answer:Intervening Obstacles

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Demographic Transition – 100

Question:The process by which a country moves

from relatively high birth and death rates to relatively low birth and death

rates.

Answer:The Demographic Transition

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Demographic Transition – 200

Question:Which country entered stage two of the

demographic transition first?

Answer:Great Britain

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Demographic Transition – 300

Question: What major shift occurs at stage two of

the demographic transition? Stage three?

Answer:Death rate declines, Birth rate declines

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Demographic Transition – 400

Question:What happens at the theoretical fifth

stage of the demographic transition and why?

Answer:There will be an increase of the crude

death rate due to the high elderly population eventually dying off.

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Demographic Transition – 500

Question:

For each stage of the demographic transition, explain why the birth and death rates shift as they do.

Answer:

Stage One: periods of relative calm, famine, war.

Stage Two: introduction of new medicines and medical techniques, improved hygiene.

Stage Three: introduction of contraceptives, education of girls, change in cultural norms.

Stage Four: more women working out of the home, desire to have fewer children, higher education goals, better healthcare

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Densities and Population Pyramids – 100

Question:The ratio of the number of farmers to the

total amount of land suitable for agriculture.

Answer:Agricultural Density

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Densities and Population Pyramids – 200

Question:The number of people per total land area.

Answer:Arithmetic Density

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Densities and Population Pyramids – 300

Question:A population pyramid that takes the form

of an actual pyramid would represent a country at which stage of the

demographic transition?

Answer:Stage Two

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Densities and Population Pyramids – 400

Question:A country with a population pyramid that is completely inverted is on the verge of

which stage of the demographic transition?

Answer:Stage Five

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Densities and Population Pyramids – 500

Question:The number of people per unit of area of

arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.

Answer:Physiological Density

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Vocabulary – 100

Question:The loss of the best and brightest people

to other countries.

Answer:Brain Drain

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Vocabulary – 200

Question:Incentives for potential migrants to leave

a place, such as a harsh climate, economic recession, or political turmoil.

Answer:Push Factors

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Vocabulary – 300

Question:The portion of Earth's surface occupied by

permanent human settlement.

Answer:Ecumene

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Vocabulary – 400

Question:The scientific study of human populations.

Answer:Demography

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Vocabulary – 500

Question:The largest number of individuals of a

population that an environment can support.

Answer:Carrying Capacity

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Population Rates – 100

Question:The amount of time it would take for a country’s population to double in size, assuming that its current growth rate

does not change.

Answer:Doubling Time

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Population Rates – 200

Question:The ratio of the number of people who are

either too old or young to provide for themselves to the number of people who

must support them through their own labor.

Answer:Dependency Ratio

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Population Rates – 300

Question:What is the sex ratio?

Answer:The number of males per 100 females in

the population.

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Population Rates – 400

Question:The percentage growth of a population in

a year computed as CBR – CDR.

Answer:Natural Increase Rate (NIR)

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Population Rates – 500

Question:The average number of children a woman

will have throughout her childbearing years.

Answer:Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

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Question:A migration pattern in which an eventual long distance relocation is undertaken in

stages as, for example, from farm to village to small town to city.

Answer:Step Migration

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Question:An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence.

(1766-1834)

Answer:Thomas Malthus

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Question:Permanent movement within one region of

a country.

Answer:Intraregional Migration

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Question:Explain the plan set fourth at the Cairo

Conference of 1994.

Answer:The plan called for improved health care and family planning services for women,

children and families throughout the world, and also emphasizes the

importance of education for girls as a factor in the shift to smaller families.

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Question:What are the five most populated

countries in the world, in order?

Answer:China, India, United States, Indonesia,

Brazil

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