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AP Human Geo Ch.3
AP hUman Geography vocab chapter 3
Question | Answer |
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Brain Drain | When Talented people emigrate out of their country to a place where they have a better job offering |
Chain Migration | The migration of people to a specific location, because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. |
Circulation | A short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movement that recur on a regular basis. |
Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas |
Emigration | is migration from one country |
Floodplain | The area to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends. |
Forced Migration | where the migrant has m=been compelled to move by cultural factors. |
Guest Workers | Citizens of poor countries who obtain jobs in Western Europe and the Middle East. |
Immigration | migration to a location. |
Internal Migration | permanent movement with one country. |
International Migration | permanent movement from country to another. |
Interregional Migration | movement from one region of a country to another. |
Intraregional Migration | Movement within one region. |
Intervening Obstacle | an environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration. |
Migration | which is permanent move to a new location. |
Migration Transition | Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. |
Mobility | a more general term covering all types of movements from one place to another. |
Net Migration | The difference between the number immigrants and the number of emigrants. |
Pull Factor | induces people to move into a new location. |
Push Factor | induces people to move into a new location. |
Quotas | In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year. |
Refugees | people who have been forced to migrate from their homes and cannot return for fear of persecution of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. |
Voluntary Migration | implies that the migrant has chosen to move for economic movement. |
Undocumented Immigrants | people who enter a country without proper documents. |