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WorksheetsAPHG Migration
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 44mins
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
Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee
(a)
Large-scale emigration by talented people.
(a)
migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
(a)
The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment.
(a)
Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.
(a)
Migration from a location
(a)
permanent movement, compelled by cultural or environmental factors
(a)
A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job.
(a)
Migration to a new location
(a)
Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border
(a)
Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.
(a)
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
(a)
Permanent movement within one region of a country.
(a)
A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produces the demographic transition.
(a)
All types of movements between locations.
(a)
The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.
(a)
A factor that induces people to move to a new location.
(a)
A factor that induces people to move out of their present location.
(a)
In reference to migration, a law that places a maximum limit on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.
(a)
Someone who is forced to migrate from his or her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of his or her race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.
(a)
Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated.
(a)
A person who enters a country without proper documents to do so.
(a)
Permanent movement undertaken by choice.
(a)
Who was the geographer that had the theory we would run out of food, due to overpopulation?
Thomas Malthus
Karl Marx
Ester Boserup
Ravenstein
Name the correct regions.
North Africa
Sub-saharan Africa
Central Africa
West Africa
Which two countries have sent the most migrants to the U.S?
Brazil and Ireland
Morocco and Spain
Vietnam and Ethiopia
Germany and Mexico
Today in the U.S., most interregional migration occurs...
from suburban to rural
from rural to urban
from suburban to urban
interregional migration is static
ID the push factor.
Land values increase in Arizone due to a newly discovered source of copper
A drought causes massive crop failures in the western parts of India
North American universities offer scholarships to students in LDCs
More farmland is made available by the government
Based on Ravenstein's ideas concerning migration, which is accurate?
most long distance migrants were individual adults
most long distance migrants were elderly males
most long distance migrants were families
most long distance migrants are unaccompanied minors
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
Temporary laborer
Host laborer
Interim worker
Provisional Worker
A factor that persuades an immigrant to settle en route to his or her planned destination is acalled an ...
interfering factor
intervening opportunity
interruption
interceding force
Distributing opportunity
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
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.
Brain Drain
Large scale emigration of talented and skilled individuals
Small scale emigration of talented and skilled individuals
