Friday, October 22, 2010

APGEO: Words to Know for Wednesday's Vocabulary Quiz

This is a lot, but you should be comfortable with most of these terms by now. Rather than get overwhelmed with the number of terms, focus on studying the ones you do not know yet. This is your only homework until Wednesday.

The final draft of the population paper will be due one week from the date I return your second draft (hopefully Tuesday).

From “last population packet”:

Stationary population level
Population pyramids
Life expectancy
Infectious disease
Chronic/degenerative disease
Genetic/inherited disease
Endemic disease
Epidemic disease
AIDS
Effects of AIDS on population composition
Expansive population policy
Eugenic population policy
Restrictive population policy
Genocide
Demographic Transition Model
Natural increase

From “What is Migration?” reading

Human movement:
cyclic
periodic
migration

forced migration
voluntary migration
activity spaces
nomadism
transhumance
migrant labor
international vs. internal migration
push/pull factors in voluntary migration
migration and distance decay
step migration
intervening opportunity
deportation
chain migration
immigration waves
colonization
regional-scale migration
global-scale migration
guest workers
refugees
internally displaced persons
repatriation
immigration laws
quotas
selective immigration

Other terms to know from the Martha Sharma vocab list:

carry capacity
cohort
demographic equation
demographic momentum
demographic regions
demographic Transition Model (especially important)
dependency ratio
disease diffusion (contagious and hierarchical)
doubling time
ecumene
epidemiological transition model
gendered space
infant mortality rate (IMR)
J-curve
maladaption
Malthus, Thomas
mortality
natality (Crude Birth Rate)
Neo-malthusian
Arithmetic density
Physiological density
Agricultural density
Population explosion
Population projection
Rate of natural increase
S-curve
Sex ratio
Standard of living
Sustainability
Underpopulation
Zero population growth
Distance Decay
Gravity Model
Migration Patterns: Intercontinental, interregional, rural-urban, migratory

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