Preparation for Test

Today Mr. Schick walked into class with his doo-rag and his "Harley" (his cart).  After everyone discussed how cool Mr. Schick looked, we went over stuff for our test on Friday to study.  Here are the notes I put down:

Life expectancy: the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year

Crude birth rate (CBR): number of births per 1000 of the population

Crude death rate (CDR): number of deaths per 1000 of the population

Developing Nations: Don't have good infrastructure; still developing

Developed Nations: Good infrastructure and more; developed

Rate of Natural Increase (RNI): rate at which the population grows based on births and deaths only

• Produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate
• This gives us the annual natural growth rate - in percentage form - for a country or region

Net migration rate (NMR): the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year

Immigration: an excess of persons entering the country

Emigration: an excess of persons leaving the country

Push Forces: things that make you want to move away fro where you live

• Civil war
• Environmental degradation
• Unemployment or underemployment
• Religious or ethnic persecution

Pull forces: things that make you want to move to a certain place

• Better economic opportunity
• Better health services
• Religious freedom
• Political freedom

Total Fertility Rate (TFR):  average number of children born per woman

I hope I do well on the test.