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32 Cards in this Set
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Antinatalist Population Policy
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Limiting population growth
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Arithmetic Density
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The total number of peoples / area of land measured in km² or sq miles.
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Brain Drain
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Large scale emigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge
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Census Tract
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A geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census.
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CBR
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The nativity or childbirths per 1,000 people per year.
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CDR
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Mortality rate is expressed in units of deaths per 1000 individuals per year.
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Cyclic Movement
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Daily activity space
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Demographic Accounting Equation
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Births - Deaths + Immigrants - Emmigrants
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Demography
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Study of the size, structure, dispersement, and development of human populations
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Dependency Ratio
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Atypically not in the labor force (the dependent part)
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Doubling Time
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Time taken for a population to double
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Ecumene
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Inhabitable area of the world
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Eugenic Population Policy
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Belief in improving the human species by discouraging reproduction of people with undesirable traits
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Fecundity
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Potential reproductive capacity of a population
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Geodemography
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Seeking to understand the processes by which settlements evolve and neighborhoods are form
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Graying Population
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The increase of people 60+ and decrease of children born
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Internally Displaced Person
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People forced to flee their homes but remain within their country's borders
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Intervening Obstacles
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Event or factor that discourages people from migrating to that area
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Intraregional Migration
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Migration of someone remaining within the same region
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Net Out Migration
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More emigrants than immigrants
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Migration Selectivity
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demanding qualifications, such as skills, youth, and health, for immigrants.
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Natural Increase
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the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population (excluding migration)
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Neo-Malthusian
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Supporter of Thomas Malthus's theory on population and resources
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Net In Migration
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More immigrants than emigrants
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Physiologic Density
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total population / amount of arable land
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Pronatalist Population Policy
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The encouraging of birthing children
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Replacement level fertility
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Number of children a woman is required to have for a population to replace itself in the long term, without migration.
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Space Time Compression
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The reduction in the significance of distance, allowing more time to do things
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Sex Ratio
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the ratio of males to females in a population
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Step Migration
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ex. if a person moves from a farm to a small town, then to a larger town and finally a city
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Total Fertility Rate
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the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime under the proper conditions
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Transhumance
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the seasonal movement of people with their livestock over relatively short distances
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