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LP - Chapter 3
Lake Park - AP Human Geography - Chapter 3 Vocabulary
| 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 previously migrated there |
| Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries |
| Emigration | Migration from a location |
| 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 new location |
| Internal Migration | Permanent movement within a particular location |
| International Migration | Permanent movement from on location to another |
| Interregional Migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another |
| Intraregional Migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country |
| Intervening Obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration |
| Net Migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration |
| Voluntary Migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice |
| Migration | Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to 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 |
| Transhumance | A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures |
| Gravity Model | A mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them |
| Push Factors | Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and migrate to a new locale |
| Pull Factors | Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas |
| Internal Migration | Human movement within a nation-state, such as ongoing westward and southward movements in the United States |
| International Migration- | Human movement involving movement across international boundaries |
| Quotas | Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year |
| Selective Immigration | Process to control immigration in which individuals with certain backgrounds (i.e. criminal records, poor health, or subversive activities) are barred from immigration |
| Nomadism | Movement among a definite set of places—often cyclic movement |
| Step Migration | To a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to town and city |
| Intervening Opportunity | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away |
| Refugees | People who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country |
| Counter Migration | The return of migrants to the regions from which they earlier emigrated |
| Step Migration | A migration in which an eventual long-distance relocation is undertaken in stages as, for example, from farm to village to small town to city |
| Gravity Model | A mathematical prediction of the interaction between two bodies as a function of their size and of the distance separating them. Attraction is proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them |
| Intervening Opportunity | The concept that closer opportunities will materially reduce the attractiveness of interaction with more distant—even slightly better—alternativeness; a closer alternative source of supply between a demand point and the original source of supply |
| Carrying Capacity | The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can sustainably support |
| Rust Belt | The northern industrial states of the United States, including Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, in which heavy industry was once the dominant economic activity, In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, these states lost much of their economic base to the south |
| Sun Belt | U.S. region, mostly comprised of southeastern and southwestern states, which has grown most dramatically since World War II |
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