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What is Overpopulation
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
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What is Asylum Seeker
Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee
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What is True
Chain migration is migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
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What is High crude birth rate
The term for the death rate in stage 1 of the Epidemiological Transition Model
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What is Stage 1 Demographic Transition Model
low growth - high birth rate, high death rate, (birth and death rate cancel each other out), and low population growth
NO COUNTRY IS IN THIS STAGE; only a few ISOLATED regions in the world |
What is Crude Birth Rate
The number of births per 1,000 individuals per year
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What is Transhumance
The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
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What is False
Brain Drain is when you are tired out by your migration
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What is Pandemics such as the Cholera pandemic
A cause for Stage 2 of Epidemiological Transition Model
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What is High birth rate
What is the birth rate of Stage 2 of Demographic Transition Model
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What is Malthusian Theory
Starvation is the inevitable result of population growth, because the population increases at a geometric rate while food supply can only increase arithmetically
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What is Xenophobia
a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers
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What is False
J-curve is only used in math
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What is MODERATELY DECLINING CDR: degenerative, human caused diseases; decrease in deaths caused by infectious diseases and an increase in deaths associated with chronic diseases caused by aging; cardiovascular diseases and various forms of cancer
Stage 3 of Epidemiological Transition
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What is low death rate
What is the death rate in Stage 3 of Demographic Transition Model
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What is Baby Boom
In general, birth rate spikes
Specifically, a cohort of individuals born in the United States between 1946 and 1964, which was just after World War II in a time of relative peace and prosperity. These conditions allowed for better education and job opportunities, encouraging high rates of both marriage and fertility. |
What is Intervening Opportunities
The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.
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What is True
Carrying capacity is the largest number of individuals of a population that an environment can support without damage to the environment
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What is Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Brazil, most of Europe, Singapore, South Korea, and the U.S.
examples of countries in Stage 4 of Epidemiological Transition
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What is low/stationary growth
The type of population growth in Stage 4 Demographic Transition Model
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What is Irish Potato Famine
A famine in 1845 when the main crop of Ireland, potatoes, was destroyed by disease. Irish farmers grew other food items, such as wheat and oats, but Great Britain required them to export those items to them, leaving nothing for the Irish to live on. As a result, over 1 million Irish died of starvation or disease, while millions of others migrated to the United States.
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What is Transnational Migration
the regular movement of a person between two or more countries resulting in a new cultural identity
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What is True
the potential workforce is people ages 15-64 that are expected to be the society's labor force
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What is POSSIBLE Reemerging infectious and parasitic disease through Globalization (EX: Malaria, TB, SARS, AIDS)
the cause of Stage 5 of Epidemiological Transition Model
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What is Japan
A country in Stage 5 Demographic Transition Model is
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