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AP Human Geography Unit 2 Vocab Match

Match the word to the definition in Unit 2 of the AP Human Geography course.
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A person with temporary permission to immigrate and work in another country.
A type of migration where people do not choose to relocate, but so do under threat of violence (war, persecution, slavery, etc.).
A slowdown of births to a rate below the replacement level, which sometimes occurs during times of conflict, economic downturn, or due to cultural shifts.
The average number of years a person can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions.
Laws that explain the relationship between the distance and volume of migration between a source and destination.
The pattern of where people live.
Positive conditions and circumstances that draw people to choose a migration destination.
Someone forced to migrate for similar reasons as a refugee but who does not move across an international border.
The permanent or semipermanent movement of individuals within a country.
Policies aimed to increase the fertility rate of a given area.
A person forced to migrate to another country to avoid the effects of armed conflict, violence, violation of human rights, or other disasters, and cannot return to their home country.
People who have adopted Malthus’ ideas to fit modern conditions and believe that overpopulation is a serious problem and threat to the future.
The large-scale emigration of highly educated or skilled workers from a place, usually to seek better living and professional opportunities abroad.
A measurement of how long a country will take to double its population based on its Natural Increase Rate.
An age-sex composition graph that can provide information on birth rates, death rates, life expectancy, economic development, migration, and past events like natural disasters, war, etc.
The percentage of people within a population who are too young or too old to work and must rely on working adults for support.
Migration done by choice, often to obtain a better quality of life.
The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support.
A set of antinatalist policies in place in China from 1999 to 2015 that incentivized families to have only one child, using social and economic benefits.
Negative circumstances, events, or conditions present where someone live that make them want to leave.
Barriers that make it difficult for migrants to reach their desired destination.
The end of a baby boom, lasting until boomers reach childbearing age.
A process in which people reach their eventual destination through a series of smaller moves.
The permanent or semipermanent movement of individuals between countries.
The theory that society is on the path to mass starvation, as population increases faster than food production capabilities.
Malthus recommended that people limit the number of children they had in order to not exhaust the Earth's resources.
Migration in which individuals follow the migratory path of preceding friends or family members to an existing community.
A model that explains the five stages of population change that countries pass through as they modernize, from high stationary to declining.
The difference between the crude birth rate and crude death rate; a statistic that estimates the population growth of a country, not including population lost or gained due to migration.
Someone who migrates to another country in hopes of being recognized as a refugee.
A measure of the number of babies who die before their first birthday for every 1000 births.
A factor that causes a migrant to choose a different destination than the one they had intended when starting their journey.
The permanent or semipermanent relocation of people from one place to another.
A model of the predictable stages in disease and life expectancy that countries experience as they develop.
A limit on the number of people who can immigrate to a country from a particular place during a particular period of time.
The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people.
Policies aimed to decrease the fertility rate of a given place.
Seasonal migration that pastoral herders make with their animals.
A spike in birth rates, typically occurring after a period of conflict.
A survey that counts the population of a state, nation, or other geographic region.
The number of live births per year for every 1000 people.
A spike in birth rates once baby boomers have reached childbearing age.
Money that migrants send back to their family and friends in their home countries.
The average number of children born per woman (aged 15-49).
The number of people who live in a defined area.
Antinatalist Policies
Asylum Seeker
Baby Boom
Baby Bust
Baby Echo
Birth Deficit
Brain Drain
Carrying Capacity
Census
Chain Migration
Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
Crude Death Rate (CDR)
Demographic Transition Model (DTM)
Dependency Ratio
Doubling Time
Epidemiological Transition Model (ETM)
Forced Migration
Guest Worker
Immigration Quota
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
Internal Migration
Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)
Intervening Obstacle
Intervening Opportunity
Life Expectancy
Malthusian Theory
Migration
Natural Increase Rate (NIR)
Neo-Malthusians
One Child Policy
Population Density
Population Distribution
Population Pyramid
Pronatalist Policies
Pull Factor
Push Factor
Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration
Refugee
Remittances
Step Migration
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
Transhumance
Transnational Migration
Voluntary Migration
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This was hard, wow

Somehow managed to get 33