Unit 2 Population

Vocabulary
Demography
Arithmetic density Agricultural
density Physiological density
Ecumene
Overpopulation
Carrying capacity
Dependency ratio
Crude birth rate
Crude death rate
Total fertility rate
Natural Increase rate
Doubling Time
Life expectancy
Census
Immigration
Emigration
Push factor
Pull factor
Distance decay
Chain migration
Step migration
Intervening obstacles
Refugee
Transhumance
Guest workers
Endemic
Infant mortality rate
Intervening opportunity
Intra-regional migration
Inter-regional migration
Pandemic
Concentration
Dependency ratio
Epidemiology
Medical revolution
Industrial revolution
Zero population growth
Brain drain
Quotas

Key Concepts to Know

1. Definition of demography and

importance of studying it
2. Location and characteristics of
major population clusters
3. Location and characteristics of
emerging population clusters
4. Sparsely populated areas
(location and characteristics)
4. Distribution of population
within clusters (variations
China)
5. Challenges of high populations
in certain areas of the world
6. Population pyramids (cohorts,
sex ratio)
7. Analysis of various population
pyramid shapes
8. Population pyramids at
different scales (unusual shapes)
9. Relationship between
population distribution and
distribution of natural hazards
10. The difference between a
natural hazard and natural
disaster
11. Role of population increase
on health of an ecosystem etc.
12. The J curve
13. The demographic equation
14. Where in the world
experiences high and low Crude
Birth Rate (CBR), Crude Death
Rate (CDR), and Natural
Increase Rate (NIR)
15. Reasons for rapid population
growth due to industrialization
and the diffusion of modern
medical practices
16. Malthus
17. Demographic transition
questions dealing with all stages
18. Epidemiological transition
19. Validity of the Demographic
Transition Model (DTM)

20. Whose experience was the

Demographic Transition Model
(DTM) based on and why?
21. Anti-natalist policies
(strategies to bring down the
Crude Birth Rate (CBR))
22. Pro-natalist policies
(strategies to increase the Crude
Birth Rate (CBR))
23. Zero Population Growth
(ZPG) replacement level
24. Role of economic
development
25. Migration
26. Cultural push & pulls
27. Economic push & pulls
28. Environmental push & pull
factors
29. Recent trends in migration
30. Gravity model
31. Waves of immigration to the
United States etc.
32. European immigration since
1970
33. Zelinskys migration
transition
34. Slave trade (involuntary
migration)
35. Partition of India
36. The Soviet experience
(internal migration)
37. Environmental degradation
38. Interregional migration in
Europe and the U.S.
39. Place perception
40. Intraregional migration (rural
to urban & urban to rural)
41. Conurbanization
42. Life course
43. Human capital as it relates to
migration
44. Socioeconomic
consequences of migration