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AP HUG chapter 3
Unit 3 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| migration to a new location | immigration |
| migration from a location | emigration |
| what are 2 raven stein's laws for distance in relation of migrants | -most migrants only go a short distance -long distance migrants favor big cities |
| difference between international and internal | international: permanent movement from one country to another internal: permanent movement within one country |
| what types of push factors usually responsible for voluntary migration | economic |
| what types of push factors usually responsible for forced migration | cultural |
| permanent movement from on region of a country to another | interregional migration |
| permanent movement within one region of a country | intraregional |
| what are the 3 countries that sent out the most immigrants from asia in recent years | china india and the Philippines |
| what caused immigration from latin america to the united states to increase | 1986 immigration reform and control act |
| what is the most famous example of large scale interregional migration in the US | internal migration to the american west |
| what is the population center? | the average location of everyone in the country |
| what was the first intervening obstacle which hindered american settlement of the interior of the continent | appalachian mountains |
| what developments in transportation eventually encouraged settlement to the Mississippi | building of canals |
| why was settlement of the great plains slow to come with settlers passing it for Cali and the west coast | settlers moving to cali for gold rush and great plains seen as unfit for farming bc of dry climate and rough sod |
| how did the railroads encourage settlement of the american interior | land was sold to farmers to finance railroads and the farmers product was transported by rail to easters customers |
| for what two reasons have people been migration to the south in recent years | job opportunities and environmental conditions |
| what are push and pull factors | push: something that causes someone to leave a location pull: something that draws someone to a place |
| citizens from poor countries to more developed to more developed countries in search of higher paying jobs | guest workers |
| why are china and southwest asia major destinations for migrants | booming economy + job opportunities |
| an environmental/cultural feature of landscape that hinders migration | intervening obstacle |
| describe the role of physical geography in examining intervening obstacles and migration | oceans, mountains, deserts are obstacles |
| describe the role of transportation in examining intervening obstacles and migration | before modern transportation people had to travel on horse or foot; modern day can cost a lot of money |
| describe the role of political concerns/laws in examining IO's and migration | passports required to legally emigrate. visuals are required to legally immigrate |
| what did the quota acts and the national origins act do | established maximum limits on the number of people who could come to the us from each country during a 1 year period |
| how did they favor immigration from certain regions | european immigrants favored over Asia |
| how did the immigration act of 1965 change the existing quota laws | removed quotas from individual countries and replaced them with hemisphere quotas: 170,000 from eastern and 120,000 from western |
| Migration to a new location is ____ | Immigration |
| Migration from a location is ___ | Emigration |
| what are Ravenstein's two laws for distance in relation of migrants? | - most migrants only go a short distance - long distance migrants favor big cities |
| difference between international and internal migration. | international: permanent movement from one country to another internal: permanent movement within the same country |
| what types of push factors are usually responsible for voluntary migration? | economic |
| what types of push factors are usually responsible for forced migration?yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy | cultural |
| permanent movement from one region of a country to another | interregional migration |
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| how was immigration law further changed in 1978 and presently? | 1978- hemisphere quota replaced by global quota of 290,000 and a maximum of 20,000 per country. presently- global quota of 620,000 with maximum of 7% from one country |
| US immigration laws gives preferences to groups. identify those preferences | families; skilled talented workers; people from countries that haven't sent few people to US |
| large scale emigration by talented people | brain drain |
| migration of people to a specific location bc relatives or members of the same nationality previously moved there | chain migration |
| people who enter the US illegally | undocumented immigrants |
| where do most undocumented immigrants in the US come from | Mexico |
| impact of Europeans emigrating around the world | has changed the world's culture + indo european languages spoken by half of the world's population |
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