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AP Human Geo Ch 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| • 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 migrated there |
| • Circulation | short-term,repetitive,or cyclical movement 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 compelled usually by cultural factors |
| • Guest Workers | workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher paying jobs |
| • Immigration | migration TO a location |
| • Internal Migration | permanent movement within a country |
| • International Migration | permanent movement from one country to another |
| • Interregional Migration | permanent movement from one region of a country to another |
| • Intervening Obstacle | an environmental or cultural feature of a landscape that hinders migration |
| • Intraregional Migration | permanent movement within one region of a country |
| • Migration | A form of relocation involving a permanent move to a new location. |
| • Migration Transition | A 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 | all types of movement from one place to another. |
| • Net Migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration |
| • Pull Factor | factors that induce people to move to a new location |
| • Push Factor | Factors that induce people to leave old residences |
| • 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 because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. |
| • Undocumented Immigrants | people who enter a country without proper documents |
| • Voluntary Migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice |
| activity space | the area where activities take place |
| amnesty | the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| Cotton Belt | land in the south eastern U.S. known for agricultural poverty. |
| intercontinental migration | movement from one continent to another |
| place utility | a place may offer economic incentives in an effort to attract people to their town of city |
| Rust Belt | 1960’s- 1970’s; northern industrial states called this because their economy was declining as factories closed and people moved as factories closed and people moved |
| Sun Belt | 1960’s- 1970’s; land previously called the cotton belt, but name changed because it is now a land of opportunity |
| time contracted workers | people who worked on plantations and mines for a set amount of time |
| unauthorized immigrants | people who enter a country without proper documents |
| Intervening opportunity | an environmental or cultural feature of a landscape that favors migration |
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