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Ch 3&4 Vocab. AP Geo
Vocabulary for The cultural landscape an intro. to human geography
Term | Definition |
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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 |