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20 Cards in this Set
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Migration |
To move from one region to another |
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Push factors |
Something that encourages people to leave a place |
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Pull factors |
Something that encourages people to move to a new place |
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Ethnic Prosecution |
Punishing a group based on ethnicity |
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Religious Prosecution |
Punishing a group based on religion |
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Forced Migration |
Movement of refugees and internally displaced people as well as people displaced by nature of enviromental disasters, chemical or nuclear disasters, famine, or dev projects.
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Physical Barriers |
a factor that limits migration, interbreeding, or free movement of individuals or animals |
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Emigrant |
A person who is leaving a country (moving from) |
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Immigrant |
A person who moves to another country |
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Demographic Transition |
The pattern of developmental change population moves through over time |
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Urban Sprawl |
The rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward into rural area as urbanization occurs |
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Urbanization |
The movement of people from rural to urban areas, resulting in the growth of urban areas |
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Demography |
The changing charasteristics of a population such as gender, age, births, deaths, aging, and migration. |
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Poverty |
The state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. |
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Refugees |
Someone who seeks safety by going to another country. Refugees may be escaping political unrest or war, or may fear of being attacked because of their beliefs. |
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Population Pyramid |
A dual graph that shows the age and genders in a pop. and allows demographers to infer the human needs in a place. |
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Megalopolis |
a group of cities in the NE USA that has grown into one large, urban area. |
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Route |
A way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination. |
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Innovation |
The new idea that a culture accepts. |
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Cencus |
A survey taken every 10 years (in the USA) as a source of current demographic data on a population. |
