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What is brain drain????
. Brain drain is where talented people EMIGRATE (usually from LDC MDC for a better education and things..
What is spatial distribution?
The arrangement or pattern of people or another phenomena across the earth’s surface.
What is a language family?
A collection of languages with a common ancestor before recorded history.
In which stage of the demographic transition does CBR decrease?
STAGE 3
Describe agricultural density.
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. This also shows a country’s level of development
Describe Ideograms aka LOGOGRAMS Or not
In China and other East Asian countries the SYMBOLS used instead of sounds or and alphabet
Describe religion in Ireland…
A person who leaves there country because they are being persecuted, or may be if they return
Refugee
Lingua franca
international TRADING LANGUAGE
Name the most spoken language family.
Indo-European
What is a dialect?
A regional variety of languages distinguished by vocab, spelling, and punctuation
Name the 2 most populated countries on earth
China and India
What was Malthus’ Prediction?.
The world population increase rate will far exceed the world’s food supply eventually causing a point of Crisis
Describe what happened to the Hebrew language?
The language was dying, and only used seldom in religious service. With the movement for Israel, E. Ben-Yehuda wrote and revived it to unite Jews around the world.
When does overpopulation occur?
When the number of people is more than the available resources can support
What is a creole/creolized language
A language that results from the mixing of colonizers language with native language
What is the most widely spoken language in the world???
ENGLISH!!!!!
What does NIR stand for & how can you calculate it?
It is Natural Increase Rate & you can calculate it by CBR-CDR=NIR 10
Give an example for each type of migration: Intraregional and Interregional
(Answers will vary) interregional- changing regions intraregional-movement within the same region
Give an example of Chain Migration
When members of the same family or group immigrate to the same region.
Which population pyramid would be an LDC and why?
LDC because with so many young people, doubling time will be low. …
What are Intervening Obstacles?
An environmental/ culture feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
Industrial Revolution
A series of improvements in industrial tech. that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. Change from agricultural to industrial society/economy
Explain how LDC’s and MDC’s transition from stage 1-stage 2 of the demographic transition
MDC’s== Industrial Revolution LDC’s== Medical Revolution
The number of infants that die before they reach age 1 per 1000 births is called…. ________ and it is higher or lower in LDC’s
IMR Infant Mortality Rate Highest in LDC’s