Unit 2, Week 7

Question 1

Migration

Answer 1

The permanent movement of people from one place to another.

Question 2

Emigration

Answer 2

Migration from a location.

Question 3

Immigration

Answer 3

Migration to a new location.

Question 4

Ravenstein’s Laws

Answer 4

A series of laws that describe voluntary migration patterns.

Question 5

Friction of Distance

Answer 5

The degree to which distance interferes with some interaction, usually between two places.

Question 6

Push factor

Answer 6

Induces people to move out of their present location. Usually negative.

Question 7

Pull factor

Answer 7

Something that encourages people to move to a new place. Usually a positive, usually for economic. cultural, or environmental reasons.

Question 8

Intervening obstacle

Answer 8

An environmental of cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.

Question 9

Gravity model

Answer 9

Interaction of places based on their population, sizes, and distances between them.

Question 10

Trail of Tears

Answer 10

Native Americans (Cherokee) who were forced from their land traveled west in the 1830’s.

Question 11

Voluntary migration

Answer 11

Permanent movement undertaken by choice.

Question 12

Forced migration

Answer 12

Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.

Question 13

Brain drain

Answer 13

Large-scale emigration by talented people.

Question 14

Diaspora

Answer 14

A dispersion of people from their homeland. Historically and commonly refers to the Jewish people from their homeland.

Question 15

Atlantic Slave Trade

Answer 15

Process by which Europeans brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.

Question 16

Guest worker

Answer 16

A foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country.

Question 17

Refugee

Answer 17

A person who flees to another country to escape persecution or disaster.

Question 18

IDP

Answer 18

Internationally Displaced Person; Similar to refugees, but the relocation occurs within the same country.

Question 19

Colombian Exchange

Answer 19

The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas by the Europeans, beginning with the discovery of the New World by Columbus. Considered as the beginnings of globalization.

Question 20

Industrial Revolution

Answer 20

A period of major industrialization that took place during the 1700s and early 1800s. Change in technology, brought by improvements in machinery and esp. by use of steam power.

Question 21

Internal migration

Answer 21

Permanent movement within a particular country.

Question 22

Inter-regional migration

Answer 22

Permanent movement BETWEEN regions.

Question 23

Intra-regional migration

Answer 23

Permanent movement WITHIN the same region.

Question 24

Rural to urban migration

Answer 24

People moving from the countryside to cities.

Question 25

Wilbur Zelinsky

Answer 25

Made model of transition of migration of a country depending on how developed it is.