Unit 2: Population & Migration

the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology.

• Transhumanism

• Brain Drain

• Remittance

• Neo-Malthusian

a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

• Asylum seekers

• Chain Migration

• Guest worker

• Refugee

the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.

• Cohort

• Carrying capacity

• Remittance

• Malthusian Theory

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area.

• Population distribution

• Physiological distribution

• Population density

• Transhumance

^{The total number of people divided by the total land area}

• Agricultural Density

• Arithmetic Density

• Physiological Density

• Dependency Ratio

^{total number of farmers per unit of arable land.}

• Agricultural Density

• Population

• Physiological Density

• Population Density

^{the movement of people between usual residences within national states.}

• Internally displaced person

• Internal migration

• Intervening obstacles

• Intervening opportunities

Global population growth will likely slow in the future as crude birth rates decline.

• True

• False

In many countries, people are more likely to live where?

• Costal regions

• Interior regions

• Arid regions

• Rural regions

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 largest population clusters in the world?

• East Asia

• Europe

• South Asia

• Southeast Asia