Population GeopardyGovernment and

PopulationWhere in the

World do People Migrate?

Migration Mania Population Ups and Downs

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• What term is used to describe government activities designed to increase or encourage population growth?

• Pronatalist/expansionist policies

• This nation created a “one child” policy of tax incentives designed to lower the TFR and slow population growth.

• China

• The US has paid more attention to migration with the intent on curbing terrorism, following this 21st century event.

• 9/11

• This term is used to describe laws designed to limit the number of immigrants emigrating from a specific country? The US passed this type of legislation at the turn of the 20th century.

• quotas

• South Africa’s “pure European” immigration requirements, Brazil’s quest for farmers, or any nation preventing immigration based on criminal records, health problems, or “subversive” activities are considered this type of immigration policy.

• selective

• This major forced migration spanning 1700-1810 changed the culture of three continents.

• Atlantic Slave trade

• These places, within a region, were formed as a result of trade patterns. They have high levels of foreign investment, relatively advanced infrastructure, and cause both internal and international migration.

• Islands of Development

• This phrase is used to describe foreign laborers given legal work status in a host nation.

• Guest workers.

• An act perpetrated with the intent on completely destroying a group of people.

• Genocide

• This region of the world houses the greatest number of internal and international refugees.

• Sub Saharan Africa

• The area created by our regular movement to and from places around our home.

• Activity space

• A form of periodic movement involving pastoral farming in which farmers move livestock seasonally.

• transhumanance

• Commuters in this capital city may travel up to 100 miles a day, some of the longest commutes in the world.

• Washington DC.

• This model multiplies the population of two places and then divides that population by the distance in between the two places. It is used to calculate likelihood of migration.

• Gravity Model

• This kind of migration occurs when the migrant weighs their options and chooses to move based on push and pull factors.

• voluntary

• The difference between the number of births and the number of deaths.

• Natural increase

• China, Brazil, and Mexico are all considered to be in this stage of the Demographic Transition Model.

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• If a country’s population is 7 million in 1850 and was predicted to reach 14 million in 1925, then this is the doubling time.

• 75 years

• Deaths, births, immigration, and emigration are all used together in order to calculate this.

• Population increase

• This stage of the DTM shows birthrates and death rates that are relatively equal and its age/sex graph would be column like or shaped like and upside down vase.

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• This is the leading cause of death in the US.

• Heart disease

• Three terms used to describe the spatial distribution of a disease at different scales.

• Endemic, epidemic, pandemic

DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• He postulated that the world’s population would outstrip food supply causing a demographic disaster.

• Malthus

• Hitler’s concept of a superior race and attempts to selectively “breed” that race while weeding out undesirable characteristics.

• Eugenic population policies

• The ethnic neighborhoods of NYC, like little Italy and little Puerto Rico were formed as a result of this kind of migration.

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