AP Human Geography Unit 2 (Migration) – Flashcards
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Activity Space
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the space within which daily activity occurs
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Chain Migration
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the social process by which immigrants from a particular town follow one another to a different city
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Cyclic Movement
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movement that has a closed route repeated annually or seasonally
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Distance Decay
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the various degenerative effects of distance on human spatial structures and interactions
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Forced Migration
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human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate
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Gravity Model
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predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it
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Internal Migration
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migration flow within a nation-state, such as ongoing westward and southward movements in the US
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Intercontinental Migration
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migration flow involving movement across international borders
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Interregional Migration
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migration flow within a certain country or state
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Intervening Opportunity
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an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that helps migration
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Migratory Movement
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human relocation movement from a source to a destination without a return journey, as opposed to cyclical movement
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Periodic Movement
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a form of migration that involves intermittent but recurrent movement, such as temporary relocation for college or service in the military
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Personal Space
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the space a person can reach without travelling
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Pull Factors
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those that pull you towards a certain destination, such as weather, economy, and family
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Push Factors
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those that push you away from your current abode, such as weather, economy, and family
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Refugee
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people who have been dislocated involuntarily from their original place of settlement
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Rural-Urban Migration
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migration flow going frow rural to urban areas
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Space-Time Prism
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the set of all points that can be reached by an individual given a maximum possible speed from a starting point in space-time and an ending point in space-time
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Step Migration
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migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages. For example, from farm to nearby village to town to city
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Transhumance
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a seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between lowland and highland pastures
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Transmigration
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moving from one country or region to another
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Voluntary Migration
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population movement in which people relocate in response to percieved oppurtunity, not because they are forced to move
