WorksheetsAPHG - Migration Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
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
In some countries, a foreign person who is given temporary permission to live and work in a host country is known as
guest worker
temporary laborer
host laborer
interim worker
provisional laborer
Which of the following is true regarding emigration?
Emigration results in an influx of talented people in underdeveloped countries.
Emigration increase unemployment rates in underdeveloped countries.
Emigration can speed up development in underdeveloped areas.
Emigration reduces the pressure on land in overpopulated areas.
Emigration can increase cultural diversity.
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
Which type of diffusion is migration considered?
relocation diffusion
expansion diffusion
stimulus diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
contagious diffusion
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
The act of migrants sending money to family in their home country is termed
alimony
allowance
subsidence
remittance
restitution
The Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of China, and DMZ would be considered
intervening obstacle
intervening opportunity
step migration
chain migration
expansion diffusion
