Ap Human Geography Chapter 3 Vocab Answers – Flashcards
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Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries.
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Remittances
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The space within which daily activity occurs
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Activity Space
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Movement - for example, college attendance or military service - that involves temporary, recurrent relocation
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Periodic Movements
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A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures.
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Transhumance
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Permanent movement from one country to another
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International Migration
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Permanent movement from one part of a region to another
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Internal Migration
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People forced to migrate out of a country due to political instability
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Forced Migration
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When people decide to move to a location because of a pull factor
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Voluntary Migration
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A mathematical formula that describes the level of interaction between two places, based on the size of their populations and their distance from each other.
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Gravity Model
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Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their country
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Push Factors
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induces people to move toward a certain location
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Pull Factors
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The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction.
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Distance Decay
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Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city
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Step Migration
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The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.
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Intervening Opportunity
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Pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links.
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Chain Migration
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Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs.
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Guest Workers
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People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.
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Refugees
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when many talented and smart individuals migrate to a country
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brain gain
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when many talented and smart individuals move out of a country
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brain drain
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short term repetitive movements
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circulation
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A dispersion of a people from their original homeland.
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diaspora
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the migration out of a country
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emigration
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the migration into a country
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immigration
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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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A constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination.
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migrant stream
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Only people exhibiting certain characteristics in a population choosing to migrate.
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migration selectivity
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the quality of moving freely
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mobility
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the difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration
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net migration
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1. Most migration is over a short distance. 2. Migration occurs in steps. 3. Long-range migrants usually move to urban areas. 4. Each migration produces a movement in the opposite direction (although not necessarily of the same volume). 5. Rural dwellers are more migratory than urban dwellers. 6. Within their own country females are more migratory than males, but males are more migratory over long distances. 7. Most migrants are adults. 8. Large towns grow more by migration than by natural increase. 9. Migration increases with economic development. 10. Migration is mostly due to economic causes
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Ravensteins Laws
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time contract workers
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an increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements
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urbanization
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The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe.
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suburbanization
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Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.
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counterurbanization
