Geography Flashcards
Geography Test
What is migration?
Migration is the movement of people from one place to another place.
What is national migration?
Movement from one region to another, within the same country.
What is an emigrant?
A migrant who is leaving their source country.
What is an immigrant?
A migrant arriving in a host country
What is immigration?
The movement of people into a country.
What is permanent migration?
When the migrant intends on remaining in the host country.
What is forced migration?
When the migrant does not have a choice to leave their source country.
What is a refugee?
A person who has been forced to leave their home due to war, persecution or a natural disaster.
What does ‘persecution’ mean?
Being treated unfairly because of their race, or religious or political beliefs.
What is an asylum seeker?
Someone who is looking for protection and their claim has not yet been accepted.
Is fleeing Syria to move to the United Kingdom an example of a national or international migration?
International migration.
Is fleeing Syria to move to the United Kingdom an example of a voluntary or forced migration?
Forced migration.
Which type of migration occurs when migrants have no choice?
Forced
What is an international migrant?
A person who moves from one country to another country.
What is a refugee?
A person who has been forced to leave their home.
What is an economic migrant?
A person who moves from one place to another place for economic reasons.
Why might a refugee be forced to leave their home?
Because of war, persecution, and natural disasters.
What is temporary migration?
When the migrant intends on returning to their source country.
What is voluntary migration?
When the migrant makes a choice to leave their source country.
What is one advantage of migration for the source country?
Money is often sent home by migrants, reduces pressure on jobs and resources, migrants may return with new skills learnt in host country.
What is one disadvantage of migration for the source country?
Country loses skilled workers which reduces the country’s workforce, families are broken up, fewer people paying taxes therefore decreased government money.
What is one advantage of migration for the host country?
A richer and more diverse culture, increase in taxes being paid and therefore government money, helps to reduce any labour shortages.
What is one disadvantage of migration for the host country?
Puts pressure on services such as healthcare and education, overcrowding, and disagreement between different religions and cultures.
What is a pull factor?
Factors that attract someone to a new host country.
What is a push factor?
Factors that push someone away from a country.
Name a push factor.
Very few hospitals
Wars
Poor transport links
Natural disasters
Unhappy life
Lack of jobs
Worse living conditions
Name a pull factor.
Better jobs
More entertainment facilities
Better transport links
Hope for a better way of life
What is an economic migrant?
Somebody who chooses to move to a new host country to find a better-paid job.
‘Not enough jobs in the chosen industry.’ Is this an example of a push or pull factor?
Push
‘High unemployment rates for young people.’ Is this an example of a push or pull factor?
Push
Better living conditions.’ Is this an example of a push or pull factor?
Pull
What is a climate refugee?
A person forced to flee their homes because of sudden or gradual changes in the climate around them.
Give two examples of a sudden or gradual change in the climate.
Sea level rising, drought etc.
Name a country that is heavily affected by rising sea levels.
Bangladesh.
