Geographic Terms 3

Question 1

Intraregional migration

Answer 1

Movement within one region

Question 2

Interregional migration

Answer 2

Movement from one region of a country to another

Question 3

International migration

Answer 3

A permanent move from one country to another

Question 4

Counterurbanization

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Net migration from urban to rural areas

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Ravenstein’s three reasons to migrate

Answer 5

Cultural, environmental, and economic reasons

Question 6

Intervening obstacle

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An environmental or political feature that hinders migration

Question 7

Asylum seeker

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Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee

Question 8

Brain drain

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Large scale emigration by talented people

Question 9

Chain migration

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Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there

Question 10

Counterurbanization

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Net migration from urban to rural areas in developed countries

Question 11

Emigration

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Migration from a location

Question 12

Floodplain

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The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends

Question 13

Guest worker

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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 from North Africa, in search of a higher paying job

Question 14

Immigration

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Migration to a new location

Question 15

Internal migration

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Permanent movement within a particular country

Question 16

Internally displaced person (IDP)

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Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border

Question 17

International migration

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Permanent movement from one country to another

Question 18

Interregional migration

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Permanent movement from one region of a country to another

Question 19

Intervening obstacle

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And environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

Question 20

Intraregional migration

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Permanent movement within one region of a country

Question 21

Migration

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A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location

Question 22

Migration transition

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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

Question 23

Net migration

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The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration

Question 24

Pull factor

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A factor that induces people to move to a new location

Question 25

Push factor

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A factor that induces people to leave old residences

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Quota

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In reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year

Question 27

Refugees

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People who are force 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

Question 28

Remittance

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Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated

Question 29

Unauthorized immigrant

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A person who enters a country without proper documents to do so