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17 Cards in this Set
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What is the Population formula?
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Population=Births-Deaths + ( In-migration-Out-migration)
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What is another word for Internal Migration?
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Transmigration
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Define Fertility Rate
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The number of children a woman has during her entire reproductive lifespan
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Define Fertility Replacement Value
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The fertility rate at which a stable population is ensured
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What is the FRV?
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2.1
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What is Zero Population Growth?
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ZPG is a population that is stable. (Neither increasing or decreasing).
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Demography
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The science of studying population characteristics.
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In-migration
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Immigration
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Out-migration
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Emmigration
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What is the Neo-Malthusian view?
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Expanding population will eventually surpass the ability of the earth to sustain it.
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What is the Cornucopian view?
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More people mean more scientists, engineers, and workers
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What is the Structural (Marxist) view?
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Population growth is not a cause of social and economic problems but a result of unjust, global economic structures that lock LDC's in a cycle of poverty
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FRV
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Fertility Replacement Value
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IDP
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Internally Displaced Person
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UNHCR
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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UNPD
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UN Population Division
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ZPG
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Zero Population Growth
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