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Ch 3&4 Vocab. AP Geo
Vocabulary for The cultural landscape an intro. to human geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Asylum seeker | someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee |
| Brain drain | large-scale emigration by talented people |
| Chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there |
| Circulation | short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis |
| Counterurbanization | net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries |
| Emigration | migration from a location |
| Floodplain | Area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends |
| Forced migration | Permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors |
| Guest worker | term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern & Western Europe, usually from Southern & Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job |
| Immigration | Migration to a new location |
| Internal migration | permanent movement within a particular country |
| Internally displaced person (IDP) | someone who had been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border |
| International migration | permanent movement from one country to another |
| Interregional migration | permanent movement from one region of a country to another |
| Intervening obstacle | environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration |
| Intraregional migration | permanent movement within one region of a country |
| migration | form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location |
| Migration transition | change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, & other social & economic changes that also produce the demographic transition |
| Mobility | all types of movement between location |
| Net migration | difference between the level of immigration & the level of emigration. |
| Pull factor | factor that induces people to move to a new location |
| Push factor | factor that induces people to move to a new location |
| Quotas | reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year |
| Refugees | people who are forced to migrate from their home country & can't return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion |
| Unauthorized immigrants | people who enter a country without proper documents to do so |
| voluntary migration | permanent movement undertaken by choice |
| Custom | frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act |
| Folk culture | culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups |
| Habit | repetitive act performed by a particular individual |
| Popular culture | culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
| Taboo | restriction on behavior imposed by social custom |
| Terroir | contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes |
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