Economic Geography Unit Test

What are push factors?

• Reasons why people stay in their home country
• The process of applying for citizenship in a new country
• Reasons why people leave their home country and migrate to another country
• Factors that attract people to their home country

What are some push factors that cause a person to leave a region?

• Abundance of job opportunities and economic stability
• Strong community and family ties
• Political instability, economic hardship, lack of job opportunities, natural disasters, conflict or war
• Access to quality education and healthcare

What are pull factors?

• Reasons that repel people from moving to a particular location
• Factors that have no influence on people's decision to move
• Things that make people indifferent about moving to a particular location
• Reasons that attract people to move to a particular location

What are some pull factors that attract a person to a region?

• Limited job opportunities
• Lack of basic amenities
• High crime rate
• Job opportunities, better quality of life, lower cost of living, good education and healthcare facilities

What are some costs of using resources?

• Environmental impact, depletion of natural resources, financial expenses
• No financial expenses
• Positive impact on the environment
• Increased availability of resources

What are some benefits of using resources?

• Decreased efficiency and increased waste
• Higher costs and reduced efficiency
• Some benefits of using resources include production of goods and services, development of technology, and employment opportunities

• No impact on cost savings or waste reduction

What are some characteristics of human populations?

• Favorite food
• education, religion, ethnicity and language

• living in a city

• Number of pets

Migrations impact regions in the following ways:

• Migrations impact regions by causing no changes at all
• Migrations impact region's languages, religion, customs, traditions and culture

• Migrations impact regions by only affecting the weather
• Migrations impact regions by leading to decrease in population

What is a city's regional/global connections called?

• rural network
• situation

• suburban network
• local network

An example of a city's situation would be-

• Novosibirsk and Vladivostok on the Trans-Siberian Railroad

• Capetown, South Africa as a supply station for ships

• Singapore; Samarkand, Uzbekistan; Xi'an, China; Timbuktu, Mali grew up along trade routes

• All of these