Unit 2 Human Geography Vocabulary quiz

The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society

• Total Fertility Rate

• Natural Increase Rate

• HDI

• Crude Birth Rate

People who are granted legal status because they were forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.

• Asylum Seeker

• Guest Worker

•  Refugee

• Transnational Migrant

Demographic trend that occurs when the average age of a population rises, with the elderly population increasing in number and as a percentage of the overall population.

• Doubling Time

• Age Compression

•  Aging Population

• Remittances

Permanent or semi-permanent movement within a particular country.

• Voluntary Migration

• Intraregional Migration

•  Internal Migration

• Prospective Migration

Migration pattern in which individuals follow the migratory path of friends or family members to an existing community; when people move to communities where relatives or friends have already migrated and resettled.

• Step Migration

• Voluntary Migration

• Chain Migration

• Asylum Seeking

Large-scale emigration by people who have a high degree of education and training, who have skills that will benefit a country in economic development.

• Chain Migration

• Step Migration

• Brain Drain

• Ecumene Transition

Total number of people divided by the total land area - analyzed at various scales (national, sub-national, local, etc.)

• Agricultural Density

• Physiological Density

•  Arithmetic Density

• Concentration Density

Human movement and resettlement across international borders in which individuals maintain networks of connection to their country of origin while at the same time settling in a new country.

• Intraregional Migration

• Internal Migration

• Guest Worker

• Transnational Migration

The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 (dependents) compared to the number of people active in the labor force (working age population).

• Child Dependency

• Elder Support Ratio

• Dependency Ratio

• Working Age Cohorts

Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries

• Guest worker dividends

• Remittances

• Quotas

• Ecumene