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APHG - Migration Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Chain migration

b)

Step migration

c)

Distance decay

d)

Intervening obstacle

e)

Intervening opportunity

2.

In some countries, a foreign person who is given temporary permission to live and work in a host country is known as

a)

guest worker

b)

temporary laborer

c)

host laborer

d)

interim worker

e)

provisional laborer

3.

Which of the following is true regarding emigration?

a)

Emigration results in an influx of talented people in underdeveloped countries.

b)

Emigration increase unemployment rates in underdeveloped countries.

c)

Emigration can speed up development in underdeveloped areas.

d)

Emigration reduces the pressure on land in overpopulated areas.

e)

Emigration can increase cultural diversity.

4.

A refugee is defined as a person

a)

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

b)

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

c)

who works outside of his or her home country

d)

who flees their home country due to war or persecution

e)

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

5.

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

a)

Most migration is rural to urban

b)

Migrants traveling long distances will likely settle in a big city

c)

People in rural areas are more migratory than city dwellers

d)

Most migration is step migration

e)

Most international migrants are young women

6.

Which type of diffusion is migration considered?

a)

relocation diffusion

b)

expansion diffusion

c)

stimulus diffusion

d)

hierarchical diffusion

e)

contagious diffusion

7.

All of the following are examples of forced migration EXCEPT

a)

the Trail of Tears in the early 19th century

b)

the Atlantic slave trade

c)

the California gold rush in the mid-19th century

d)

the Irish Potato Famine from 1846 to 1850

e)

the Japanese interment camps during World War II

8.

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.

a)

brain drain

b)

chain migration

c)

chain drain

d)

net migration

e)

step migration

9.

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

a)

refugess

b)

asylum seeker

c)

internally displaced person

d)

internationally displaced person

e)

cultural migrant

10.

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

a)

intervening opportunity

b)

distance decay

c)

involuntary migration

d)

push-pull factors

e)

transhumance

11.

Which of the following is the primary reason people migrate.

a)

Economic opportunity

b)

Cultural oppression

c)

Overpopulation

d)

pollution

e)

Family

12.

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

a)

brain drain

b)

chain migration

c)

net migration

d)

internal migration

e)

counterurbanizationn

13.

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

a)

Economic Push

b)

Political Pull

c)

Cultural Push

d)

Environmental Push

e)

Demographic Pull

14.

The act of migrants sending money to family in their home country is termed

a)

alimony

b)

allowance

c)

subsidence

d)

remittance

e)

restitution

15.

The Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of China, and DMZ would be considered

a)

intervening obstacle

b)

intervening opportunity

c)

step migration

d)

chain migration

e)

expansion diffusion