AP Human Geography - Unit 2 Flashcards

Fleeing from one country to another

Fleeing from one region to another

<p>A refugee who does not return to their country of origin and is given permanent residence status in the new country</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Status given to a refugee prior to receiving permanent residency in a new country</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Government policies that encourage large families and raise the rate of population growth</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reduce the rate of natural increase</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The death rate is higher than the birth rate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An act in China that allows people to have only 1 child in the city and 2 children in the countryside</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Laws and regulations designed to control immigration into a state</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Information about births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and the incidence of certain infectious diseases</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An official numbering of the people of a country or district</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Measure of how much nutrition can be produced from land</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An increase in population by almost 30 million people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Freedom to move from place to place</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Migrants who set up homes and/or work in more than one nation-state</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Population movement caused by the degradation of land and essential natural resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A concept closely related to territoriality, proposed by anthropologist Edward Hall</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A projection population model showing exponential growth shaped like a J-curve</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A plan developed at the 1994 Conference on Population and Development calling for stabilizing the world's population at 7.8 billion by 2050</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The largest number of individuals of a population that an environment can support</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The horizontal bending or leveling of an exponential or J-curve</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Areas from which a given city or place draws a majority of the in-migrants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When one family member migrates to a new country and the rest of the family follows shortly after</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Laws of migration established in the 1880s based on studies in the UK, stating that most migrants move only a short distance</p> Signup and view all the answers