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Movement
vocab
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Migration | the travelling of long distances in search of a new habitat;physical movement from one area to another |
Transportation | the action of transporting someone or something or the process of being transported;taking or carrying (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship. |
Pull factors | conditions that attract people to a particular location. These factors may be due to economic, environmental, religious and even political conditions present in the concerned locations. |
Push factors | factors or causes with which people tend to be pushed away or repelled from certain locations; |
Space Time Compression | refers to any phenomenon that alters the qualities of and relationship between space and time. Time–space compression often occurs as a result of technological innovations that condense or elide spatial and temporal distances |
Immigration | Immigration is the movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native in order to settle there |
Technology | the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a pre-existing solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation |