AP Human Geography Chapter 3 Notes and Vocabulary – Flashcards
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Where do people migrate?
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Key Issue 1
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Geographers document from where people migrate and to where they migrate. They also study the reason why people migrate.
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What do Geographers ask about migration?
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Economic opportunity, Cultural Freedom, and Environmental Comfort.
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What are the three main reasons people migrate?
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The spreading of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
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Diffusion
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A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.
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Migration
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Migration from a location.
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Emigration
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Migration to a new location.
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Immigration
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The diffrence between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.
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Net Migration
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When the number of immigrants exceed the number of emigrants.(The net migration is positive)
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Net in-migration
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When the number of emigrants exceed the number of immigrants. (The net migration is negative)
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Net out-migration
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All types of movement from one location to another.
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Mobility
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Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.
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Circulation
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Language, Religion, Ethnicity, and other cultural traits.
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What traits do people bring to their new homes when they migrate?
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The reasons why people move, The distance they typically move, and their characteristics.
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Ravensteins Laws can be oraganized into three diffrent groups which are?
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A factor that induces people to leave their old residence.
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Push Factor
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A factor that induces people to move to a new location.
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Pull Factor
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Economic, Cultural, and Environmental
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What are the three major types of push and pull factors?
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People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of prosecution because of race, religon, nationality, and membership in a social group, or political opinion.
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Refugees
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The areas subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends.
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Floodplain
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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
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Interventing Obstacle
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Most immigrants relocate a short distance and remain within the same country, and Long-distance immagrants to other countries head for major economic activity.
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Ravensteins theory made two main points which are?
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Permanent movement from one country to another.
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International Migration
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Permanent movement within a particular country.
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Internal Migration
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Interregional, and Intraregional migration.
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Internal migration can be divided into to two typed which are called?
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Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.
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Interregional Migration
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Permanent movement within one region of a country.
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Intraregional Migration
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Forced and Voluntary migration.
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International migration is futher divided into two groups called?
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Permanent movement undertaken by choice.
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Voluntary Migration
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Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors
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Forced Migration
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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.
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Migration Transition
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Where are migrants distributed?
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Key Issue 2
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9 percent
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What percent of the worlds people are international immigrants?
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Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
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Which countries have net-out migration?
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North America, Europe, Oceania
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Which countries have net-in migration?
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United States of America.
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Which country has the largest percent of immigrants?
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Europe, and Africa
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Most immigrants in the first era of the United States immigration was from?
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Europe
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Most immigrants in the secand era of the United States immigration was from?
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Asia and Latin America.
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Most immigrats in the third era of the United Sates immigration was from?
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Germany
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Among all the European countries which one sent the most immigrants to the United States?
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Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.
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Chain Migration
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Why do Migrants face Obstacles?
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Key Isuue 3
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Made in 1921
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Quota Act
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Made in 1924
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National Origins Act
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The maimum limits of the number of people who could migrate to the United Sates from each country during a one year period.
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Quota
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2 percent
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For each person that had a native born person already living in the United States how many could migrate each year?
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150,000
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The limited number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere was?
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Europe
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Which continent did America admit the most immigrants?
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1960s
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The Quota system continued with minor modifications untill?
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1965
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When was the Immigration Act passed?
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1968
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Quotas for individual countries where eliminated in what year?
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Large scale emigration by talented people
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Brain Drain
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Citizens of poor countries who obtain jobs in Western Europe and the Middle East
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Guest Workers
