Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
AP HUG chapter three
Terms and questions. Based on James M. Rubinstein 13th ed. Text Book
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Migration | a permanent move to a new location |
| Emigration | movement from a location |
| Immigration | migration to a location |
| Net migration | the difference in the number of immigrants and emigrants. Net in-migration is more immigrants, and net out-migration is more emigrants. |
| Mobility | a general term for all types of movements |
| Circulation | short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements (occur daily, monthly, annually) |
| Zelinsky’s migrant transition model | correlates with the DTM, |
| Push factors | induce people to move out (negative factors) |
| Pull factors | induce people to move in (positive factors) |
| Lee’s migration model | push and pull factors. Bad places push you into the pull of good places. Both places; however, have a mix of push and pull factors. |
| Internal migration | permanent move within the same country |
| Distance decay model | the farther away a place is, the less likely it is that people will migrate there |
| Interregional migration | movement from one region of the country to another |
| Intraregional migration | movement within a region, mostly from rural to urban. |
| Urbanization | a move from rural to urban areas, the current global trend (not in the US, though.) |
| Suburbanization | a move from urban or rural areas to suburban areas, common in the US. |
| Suburban lifestyle | detached house (not apartment), private yard for kids to play, garage and drive easily (instead of unsafe parking garages), modern suburban schools. |
| Counterurbanization | a move from urban areas to rural areas. Technology made this easier. |
| Intervening obstacles (IO) | an environmental or political feature that hinders migration. Step migration: a series of stages or steps migrants must take to reach their final destination. |
| Intervening opportunity | a feature (usually economic) that causes a migrant to choose a destination other than his original one |
| Refugees | people are forced to migrate from their homes, cross international boundaries, and cannot return. Most often politically based (race, religion, nationality, social group membership, or political opinions). |
| Internally displaced person (IDP) | refugee who has NOT crossed international borders. |
| Asylum seeker | migrated to another country, hoping for refugee status |
| Floodplain | an area subject to periodic flooding |
| Temporary worker | a worker who temporarily migrates to another country to work there and then moves back when they're done. |
| Remittances | transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated |
| Feminization of immigration | more females are migrating. |
| Quotas | established maximum on the limits of the number of people allowed to immigrate in one year |
| Brain drain | large-scale immigration of the most talented people |
| Sanctuary cities | cities that offer protection to undocumented immigrants |
| Circular migration | temporary movement of guest workers between source and destination countries. pipeline to citizenship; corporations don't want to recruit, employ, and train new workers, and the workers don't want to leave, and these guest workers become residents. |
Created by:
chambsar000
Popular AP Human Geography sets