AP Human Geography Quiz - 3.12 - WHY AND WHERE

What term refers to the seasonal movement of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures?

• a) Emigration

• b) Immigration

• c) Transhumance

• d) Activity space

What is calculated by subtracting the number of emigrants from the number of immigrants?

• a) Emigration

• b) Immigration

• c) Net migration

• d) Mobility

What term describes the process of migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages?

• a) Chain migration

• b) Step migration

• c) Circular migration

• d) Seasonal migration

Who initiated the Colonial Wave of migration and when?

• a) European colonizers in the 15th to 19th centuries

• b) Asian colonizers in the 20th century

• c) African colonizers in the 19th to 20th centuries

• d) American colonizers in the 18th century

What term describes the act of leaving one's country to settle permanently in another?

• a) Emigration

• b) Immigration

• c) Net migration

• d) Mobility

What is the term for migration dominated by males?

• a) Male migration

• b) Feminization of migration

• c) Counterexample

• d) Reverse migration

What term describes the process by which one family member migrates and then the rest of the family follows?

• a) Chain migration

• b) Step migration

• c) Circular migration

• d) Seasonal migration

What term refers to the ability to move from one place to another?

• a) Emigration

• b) Immigration

• c) Mobility

• d) Circulation

Who proposed the migration transition model?

• a) Ernst Ravenstein

• b) Thomas Malthus

• c) William Zelinsky

• d) Wilbur Zelinsky

What is the term for the area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity?

• a) Emigration

• b) Immigration

• c) Transhumance

• d) Activity space