WorksheetsAp Human Geography chap 3 vocab
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Brain Drain
Large scale emigration of talented and skilled individuals
Small scale emigration of talented and skilled individuals
chain migration (migration ladder)
A stream of people out of an area as first movers communicate with people back home and stimulate others to follow later.
Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.
circulation
Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.
the movement of people out of urban areas to escape over crowding, pollution, and economic disadvantages.
Counterurbanization
the movement of people out of urban areas to escape over crowding, pollution, and economic disadvantages.
Migration from a location.
Emigration
Migration from a location.
The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends.
Floodplain
The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends.
Permanent movement compelled by a factor outside the migrant's control.
Forced migration
Permanent movement compelled by a factor outside the migrant's control.
A citizen of a usually poorer country who obtains a job in a Western European country
Guest worker
A citizen of a usually poorer country who obtains a job in a Western European country
Migration to a location.
Immigration
Migration to a location.
Permanent movement within a particular country
International Migration
Permanent movement from one country to another.
Migration between regions
Interregional migration
Migration between regions
Physical features that halt or slow migration from one place to another. An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
Intervening obstacle
Physical features that halt or slow migration from one place to another. An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
Permanent movement within one region of a country.
Intraregional migration
Permanent movement within one region of a country.
A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.
Migration
A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.
A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.
Migration transition
A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.
All types of movement between location.
Mobility
All types of movement between location.
The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.
Net Migration
The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.
Reasons that attract people to a new region.
Pull factors
Reasons that attract people to a new region.
Encouragement for people to move from the region that they live in.
Push factors
Encouragement for people to move from the region that they live in.
Reasons that attract people to a new region.
Quotas
In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.
A person who has been forced to migrate and cannot return due to fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion
