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First Semester PACK Exam (2024-2025)
Replacement Level
ans:The fertility rate necessary for a population to replace itself. Replacement Level
is a Total Fertility Rate of 2.1
Time-Space Compression/ Convergence
ans:The shrinking of the world due to improvements in communication and
transportation technologies
Malthusian Theory (Thomas Malthus)
ans:Starvation is the inevitable result of population growth, because the population
increases at a geometric rate while food supply can only increase arithmetically
Neomalthusians
ans:A belief that the world is characterized by scarcity and competition in which too
many people fight for few resources.
Restrictive Population Policies (Anti-Natalism)
ans:Government policies designed to reduce the rate of natural increase such as the
One-Child Policy in China
Distribution (Population)
ans:How a population (people) is spread out in an area (the pattern of human
settlement)
Asylum Seeker
, ans:Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized
as a refugee.
Brain Drain
ans:The loss of highly educated and skilled workers to other countries.
Forced Migration
ans:Permanent movement, compelled usually by cultural, political or environmental
factors.
Guest Worker
ans:A foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country.
Immigration
ans:Migration to a new location.
Internally Displaced Person (IDP)
ans:Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a
refugee but has not migrated across an international border.
Intervening Obstacle
ans:A barrier that hinders migration.
Migration
ans:A form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.
Pull Factor
ans:A factor that induces people to move to a new location.
Push Factor
ans:A factor that induces people to leave old locations.