Curta AP Geography Spatial Interaction and Migration

Quiz yourself by guessing what should be in each of the black rectangles below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help  

Flap 1
Flap 2
A person's activity space is primarily affected by  age, mobility, opportunity  
When the effort involved in travel exceeds the willingness to travel, the control in operation is  critical distance  
The most effective and usual means of accumulating information affecting spatial interaction is  personal contact  
The concept of place utility refers to  the perception of opportunities and attractiveness  
The gravity model states that  interaction is inversely proportional to distance  
The personal communication field of an individual is  related to age, sex, education, type and place of employment, and income  
The three flow-determining factors of spatial interaction are  complementarity, transferability, and intervening opportunity.  
Complementarity between areas  occurs when the areas specialize in different commodities for which there is effective demand.  
The interaction potential model  often uses population and distance variables  
Among the reasons for migrating, push factors  encourage relocation away from original residence areas  
People are often inclined to settle in areas of known natural hazards because  specific hazards do not occur with great frequency  
The migration field for any locale is  usually persistent and spatially stable over time  
Distance decay implies that  short-distance contacts are more likely than long-distance contacts.  
Barriers to the flow of information give rise to  directional biases  
Which of the following is a push factor?  dissatisfaction with current job  
The value that an individual places on each known, potential migration site is called  place utility  
Within the United States, directional biases favor information flows between  East and West  
Willingness to defend home ground is called  territoriality.  
Channelized migration flows imply  greater than theoretically expected flows between two places  
Areas that dominate a locale's in- and out-migration patterns constitute the locale's  migration field  
Territoriality is the spatial expression of one's mental map  False  
Spatial interaction is a concept applicable only to commodity movements  False  
In general, the space–time prism of females is more flexible than that of males  False  
Transferability is a statement about the cost of an interaction  True  
A migration field is formed by totaling the activity spaces of a number of people.  False  
Intervening opportunities serve to multiply the exchange flows between two distant points.  False  
Distance bias refers to the fact that with increased distance, transferability increases at an increasing rate  False  
Mass communication is essentially a one-way information flow  True  
An individual's zone of daily movement is known as that person's  activity space  
In modern American interregional moves, the decision to migrate appears to be controlled by  change in life cycle, change in career cycle, and personal characteristics of mobility  
In pure spatial theory, interaction decisions are based solely on distance and distance-cost considerations  False  
Migration decisions most realistically are viewed as the outcome of both push and pull influences.  True  
A potential model provides an estimate of interaction opportunities in a multinodal network.  True  
We form place opinions and perceptions only on the basis of personal experience.  False  
A movement bias displays the effect of distance decay  False  
Demanded personal space is a cultural and circumstantial variable.  True  
Activity space tends to increase with mobility and decrease with stage in the life cycle.  False  
People with limited awareness space are said to be confined within a space-time prism.  False  
The migration of settlers from the island of Java to other locations in Indonesia is an example of reluctant relocation.  True  
When mobility is restricted and time is limited, critical distances contract.  True  
Space-time convergence occurs when multiple shopping opportunities aggregate in regional malls.  False  
The law of retail gravitation states that the breaking point between two cities of unequal size will lie farther from the larger of the two cities.  True  
Differentials in wages and job opportunities between home and destination countries are a major driving force in international migration decisions  True  
Place perception refers to our personal awareness and beliefs about place and space.  True  
When a commodity is acquired from an intervening opportunity rather than from a more distant supplier, its transferability is improved.  True  
Distance decay and critical distance are different terms defining the same concept.  False  
Factors that stimulate migration are?  conflict, economic conditions, political strife, cultural circumstances, environmental change, and technological advances  
Migrants move on basis of?  their perceptions of particular destinations; distance affects accuracy of perception.  
Voluntary migrants are stimulated by?  “pull” as well as “push” factors  
Forced migrations result from?  the imposition of power by stronger peoples over weaker ones.  
Migration defined as?  the long-term relocation of an individual, household, or group to a new location outside the community of origin  
internal migration  In the United States, African-Americans moved north during the early twentieth century The attraction of the “sunbelt” in the United States In China workers migrate from rural areas to cities of the Pacific Rim  
Ravenstein’s “laws” of migration are?  1. Net migration amounts to a fraction of the gross migration between two places 2. The majority of migrants move a short distance 3. Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big-city destinations 4. Urban residents are less migratory  
Push factors are?  a) Likely to be more accurately perceived b) Include individual and personal considerations  
Pull factors are?  a) Likely to be more vague b) Many move on the basis of excessively positive images and expectations  
Step migration is?  Migrants may move to a near place first than move farther as they learn more about a location further away. Movement may be to a village, then a town, and finally a city. At each step new pull factors come into play  
Intervening opportunity is?  Migrants may find opportunity before reaching their original destination. This happens to the majority of migrants around the world. Tourists (temporary migrants) also respond to this factor. May choose a closer place to vacation because of travel costs  
Voluntary migration is?  All voluntary migration flows generate a return. Any voluntary migration flow represents the numbers going from the source to the destination minus those returning to the source. ex. Potato famine in Ireland or British colonial rule over Ireland  
Forced migrations are?  The Transatlantic Slave Trade Convicts shipped from Britain to Australia beginning in 1788. In the 1800s, thousands of Native Americans were forced onto reservations. Forced migration during Stalin's ruthless rule in the former Soviet Union  
counter-migration is?  Forced migration exists today in the form of counter-migration, when governments send back migrants caught entering their countries illegally  
Activity space is?  Daily routine, Magnitude varies in different societies, Technology has expanded daily activity spaces  
What are the three types of human movement?  Cyclic movement(ex. commuting, seasonal, nomadism), Periodic, and Migratory  
Interregional migrations are?  people moving or being moved from one geographic realm to another  
Intranational refugees are?  those who have abandoned their homes but not their countries  
Absolute direction  compass direction  
Relative direction  more perceptual –“Middle East” – old British term  
Absolute distance  physical distance between two points (scales on maps)  
Relative distance  distance measured in terms of cost and time  
Emigrant  person moving away from a country or area; out-migrant  
Immigrant  person moving into a particular country or area; in-migrant  
Spatial interaction  directly related to the populations and inversely related to the distance between them  
Gravity Model  In mathematical terms: Interaction is proportional to the multiplication of the two populations divided by the distance between them  
Emigration occurs when a person  moves from their home country  


   

 
 

 
 

 

 
Chat about AP Human Geography
www.eapps.com




Copyright ©2001-2008 John Weidner All rights reserved.
About -  Terms of Service -  Privacy Statement