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chapter 5
for human geo quizz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mobility | all types of movement from one location to another, whether temporary or permanent or over short or long distances |
| circulation | temporary, repetitive movements that recur on a regular basis |
| human migration | the permanent movement of people from one place to another |
| gravity model | a model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton’s law of universal gravitation |
| Emigration | Emigration |
| immigration | movement to a location |
| net migration | the difference between the number of emigrants and immigrants in a location, such as a city or a country |
| push factor | a negative cause that compels someone to leave a location |
| pull factor | a positive cause that attracts someone to a new location |
| voluntary migration | type of migration in which people make the choice to move to a new place |
| transnational migration | international migration in which people retain strong cultural, emotional, and financial ties with their countries of origin |
| forced migration | type of migration in which people are compelled to move by economic, political, environmental, or cultural factors |
| internal migration | movement within a country’s borders |
| friction of distance | concept that states that the longer a journey is, the more time, effort, and cost it will involve |
| chain migration | type of migration in which people move to a location because others from their community have previously migrated there |
| Transhumance | the movement of herds between pastures at cooler, higher elevations during the summer months and lower elevations during the winter |
| step migration | series of smaller moves to get to the ultimate destination |
| intervening obstacle | an occurrence that holds migrants back |
| intervening opportunity | an occurrence that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice |
| Guest workers | a migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor |
| circular migration | migration pattern in which migrant workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs |
| asylum | the right to protection in a country |
| Refugees | a person who is forced to leave his or her country for fear of persecution or death |
| Internally displaced persons | .person who has been forced to flee his or her home but remains within the country’s borders |
| distance decay | a principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have |
| repatriate | to return to one’s home country |
| interregional migration | movement from one region of the country to another |
| kinship links | networks of relatives and friends |
| remittances | money earned by an emigrant abroad and sent back to his or her home country |
| relocation diffusion | the spread of culture traits through the movement of people |
| intraregional migration | movement within one region of the country |
| human trafficking | defined by the United Nations as “the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion) |