WGU C255 Intro to World Geography Chapter 6 Review WGU C255 Intro to World Geography Questions and answers
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WGU C255 Intro to World Geography
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WGU C255 Intro To World Geography
Asylum - Safety that a country grants to refugees
barriers to migration - Barriers that prevent migration including physical, economic, financial,
cultural, and political
brain drain - The emigration of a country's best-educated people and most-skilled workers
carrying capacity - The population...
WGU C255 Intro to World Geography Chapter 6 Review
Asylum - ✔✔Safety that a country grants to refugees
barriers to migration - ✔✔Barriers that prevent migration including physical, economic, financial,
cultural, and political
brain drain - ✔✔The emigration of a country's best-educated people and most-skilled workers
carrying capacity - ✔✔The population that can be supported by a given resource, as in the number of
people that can be supported by agricultural land
chain migration - ✔✔A migration pattern resulting when migrants follow the paths of previous migrants
from the same area of origin to the same destination
crude birth rate - ✔✔The annual number of live births per thousand people
crude death rate - ✔✔The annual number of deaths per thousand people
cultural mosaic - ✔✔A phrase describing Canada and suggesting that various cultural groups retain
individuality there
degenerative disease - ✔✔A disease that is difficult to treat because it deteriorates body tissues or the
operation of vital organs, and cannot be reversed
demographic equation or balancing equation - ✔✔A population's rate of natural increase (or decrease)
plus the net migration rate (which may be negative)
, demographic transition - ✔✔A model that describes the historical experience of population growth in
the countries that are today rich
demography - ✔✔The analysis of a population in terms of specific characteristics, such as age or income
levels
dependency ratio - ✔✔The ratio of the combined population less than 15 years old and adult population
over 65 years old to the population of those between 15 and 64 years of age
domestication - ✔✔The process of adapting plants and animals to obtain their intimate association with
humankind, to the advantage of humankind
doubling time - ✔✔The number of years it would take any country's population to double at the present
rate of increase
emigration - ✔✔Movement away from a place
epidemiological transition - ✔✔The shift within a country of the principal causes of death from
infectious to degenerative diseases
epidemiology - ✔✔The study of the incidence, distribution, and control of disease
fertility transition - ✔✔A historical decrease in births in which populations move from high to low birth
rates
growth rate - ✔✔The value of a population's annual demographic equation divided by the population
size at the beginning of that year
immigration - ✔✔Movement into a place
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