Migration Patterns and Influences

Migration Patterns and Influences

Assessment

Interactive Video

Social Studies

8th Grade

Hard

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8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the term for people moving from one place to another, regardless of the distance?

Immigration

Emigration

Migration

Translocation

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are the two main types of factors that influence why people move from one place to another?

Economic and social factors

Push and pull factors

Environmental and political factors

Voluntary and involuntary factors

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a system where people are contracted to work for low pay on an estate for a set period, often to pay off travel costs?

Slavery

Indentured labor

Forced migration

Voluntary migration

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of migration involves people moving in a back-and-forth pattern, often tied to seasonal work or natural phenomena like wind patterns?

Economic migration

Chain migration

Seasonal/cyclical migration

Forced migration

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What caused many Indians to leave Uganda in 1972?

A natural disaster

A government expulsion order

Economic opportunities in other countries

A desire to return to India

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the primary reason people become refugees?

To seek better educational opportunities

To join family members in another country

To escape conflict or persecution

To explore new cultures

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What term describes a group of people who share cultural traits but have left their homeland, often maintaining a connection to it?

Economic migrants

Refugees

Diaspora

Internal migrants

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the term for a migration pattern where a person moves from a rural area to a regional city, then to a larger city, and possibly then internationally?

Internal migration

Step migration

Return migration

Reluctant migration