vocab chapter 3

Question 1

Large-scale emigration by talented people.

Answer 1

Brain drain:

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Chain migration:

Question 3

Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis, such as daily or annually.

Answer 3

Circulation:

Question 4

Net migration from urban to rural areas in developed countries.

Answer 4

Counterurbanization:

Question 5

Migration from a location.

Answer 5

Emigration:

Question 6

An area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends.

Answer 6

Floodplain:

Question 7

Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors

Answer 7

Forced migration:

Question 8

Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs.

Answer 8

Guest workers:

Question 9

Migration to a new location.

Answer 9

Immigration:

Question 10

Permanent movement within a particular country.

Answer 10

Internal migration:

Question 11

Permanent movement from one country to another.

Answer 11

International migration:

Question 12

Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.

Answer 12

Interregional migration:

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Intervening obstacle:

Question 14

Permanent movement within one region of a country.

Answer 14

Intraregional migration:

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Migration:

Question 16

Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from the social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.

Answer 16

Migration transition:

Question 17

All types of movement from one location to another.

Answer 17

Mobility:

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Net migration:

Question 19

A factor that induces people to move to a new location.

Answer 19

Pull factor:

Question 20

A factor that induces people to move out of their present location.

Answer 20

Push factor:

Question 21

Laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.

Answer 21

Quotas:

Question 22

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.

Answer 22

Refugees:

Question 23

Laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.

Answer 23

Quotas:

Question 24

Laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.

Answer 24

Quotas:

Question 25

People who enter a country without proper documents.

Answer 25

Undocumented immigrants:

Question 26

Permanent movement undertaken by choice

Answer 26

Voluntary migration: