Migration Test

A person living in Town A moves three times, as shown in the diagram, and settles in Town D. This is an example of

• Chain migration

• Step migration

• Distance decay

• Intervening obstacle

• Intervening opportunity

A refugee is defined as a person

• who willingly left his or her homeland for better opportunities in another country

• who illegally resides in a country other than his or her homeland

• who works outside of his or her home country

• who flees their home country due to war or persecution

• who was deported from a country back to his or her homeland

Which of the following is NOT one of Ravenstein's migration laws?

• Most migration is rural to urban

• Migrants traveling long distances will likely settle in a big city

• People in rural areas are more migratory than city dwellers

• Most migration is step migration

• Most international migrants are young women

All of the following are examples of forced migration EXCEPT

• the Trail of Tears in the early 19th century

• the Atlantic slave trade

• the California gold rush in the mid-19th century

• the Irish Potato Famine from 1846 to 1850

• the Japanese interment camps during World War II

An example of _______ is the migration of lawyers and architects to the United States after they have received years of government - financed schooling and training in India.

• brain drain

• chain migration

• chain drain

• net migration

• step migration

A person who flees quickly in order to stay alive but does not leave their country would be considered

• refugess

• asylum seeker

• internally displaced person

• internationally displaced person

• cultural migrant

You are planning to move from your hometown to Nashville. Along the way, you stop in Auburn, Alabama to visit a relative and fall in love with the city! You decide to stay and make Auburn our new home. This is an example of

• intervening opportunity

• distance decay

• involuntary migration

• push-pull factors

• transhumance

Which of the following is the primary reason people migrate.

• Economic opportunity

• Cultural oppression

• Overpopulation

• pollution

• Family

The nineteenth-century emigration of a large number of Swedes from a particular region of Sweden to Isanti County, Minnesota, as a result of communications from friends and relatives who preceded them there is an example of

• brain drain

• chain migration

• net migration

• internal migration

• counterurbanizationn

From an emigrant , war in his or her homeland is example of

• Economic Push

• Political Pull

• Cultural Push

• Environmental Push

• Demographic Pull