Migration Review

The Dust Bowl in the Great Plains is the best example of which push or pull factor?

• Political Pull Factor
• Economic Push Factor
• Environmental Pull Factor
• Environmental Push Factor

The term that best describes a permanent move to a new location is

• migration
• mobility
• net in-migration
• net migration

Several million Irish and Germans migrated in the 1840s primarily because

• of the Black Plague
• of disastrous economic conditions brought on by government policy and displacement by the Industrial Revolution
• of poor environmental conditions including massive flooding.D) of religious freedom
• Russian imperial advances threatened their livelihoods

According to the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, undocumented immigrants were

• permitted to become legal residents by participating in an application process.
• automatically transformed into U.S. citizens in a blanket "amnesty."
• encouraged to remain in Mexico because of shortages of workers.
• no longer eligible for public services in the United States

The U.S. center of population has moved steadily to the

• east.
• north.
• south
• west

From the discussions of demographic changes within the United States we can deduce that the largest level of interregional migration in the United States was caused by the

• arrival of Europeans and their wars with Native Americans beginning in the 1600s
• unauthorized immigration from Latin America, especially in the 1900s
• immigration of Asians beginning in the early twentieth century, despite the Chinese Exclusion Acts
• opening up of the western territories to settlement.

The most prominent type of intraregional migration in the world is

• region to region
• urban to rural.
• city to city
• rural to urban

Counterurbanization is

• moving from an urban core to suburban areas
• due to expanding suburbs
• migration to rural areas and small towns from central cities or suburbs
• the decline of the inner-city infrastructure

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2014, the largest number of refugees were forced to migrate from ________, which have seen a great deal of armed conflict in recent years.

• Vietnam and Indonesia
• Afghanistan and Syria
• Sudan, South Africa, and Colombia
• Mexico and Colombia

An environmental or political feature that hinders migration is

• intraregional migration policies
• interregional migration policies
• an intervening obstacle
• permeable international borders