Chapter 14 Flashcards
Demography
Study of population
Mortality rate
Death rate
Fertility rate
Number of births per 1,000 women
Birth rate
Number of births per every person
Migration
Movement from one geographic location to another
Internal migration
Migration within a country
Immigration
Migration between countries
Infant mortality rate
Number of babies who die during or shortly after childbirth
Demographic transition
Movement to low birth and death rates
Must average how many children to maintain the population? (Zero population growth)
2.1
Urbanization
Increasing movement of people from towns and farms to cities
Suburbs
Communities that develop outside cities and provided housing rather than employment or services
S-F on urban life
Healthy competition between economic rivals would lead cities to grow in whatever ways offered the most efficient means for producing and distributing goods and services
Conflict on urban life
Nothing is natural about urban growth or decline, there are no set patterns, each city grows or declines in its own unique ways
Suburbanization
Growth of suburbs