Questions for REVIEW CONTEST - Chp. 3 Migration
1. The most important type of intraregional migration in the world is: RURAL TO URBAN
2. The “boat people” are associated mostly with what country as they wished to seek asylum in the USA? Vietnam
3. USA Quota laws from 1920s until 1960s favored only: EUROPEANS
4. Counterurbanization is migration to: movement from suburbs to rural areas and small towns
5. Most Asians are currently migrating to the USA through the process of: CHAIN MIGRATION
6. What is the current intraregional migration trend in the USA? URBAN TO SUBURBAN
7. The largest level of interregional migration in the USA was caused by: opening up the WEST
8. Which is likely to cause virtually all population growth in the next few decades for USA? net-in migration/immigrants
9. People are forced to migrate primarily because of what kind of factor? CULTURAL
10. The most important pull factor for migrants to NA today is: ECONOMIC
11. The term guest workers are more associated with what continent? EUROPE
12. Which European country has sent the largest # of immigrants to the USA? GERMANY
13. Which country has as of 2013 sent the largest # of legal immigrants to the USA? MEXICO
14. Which country has the most illegal immigrants in the USA? MEXICO
15. Europeans to the USA came in which stage of the Demographic Transition Model? STAGE 2
16. Why did 65 million Europeans leave Europe during STAGE 2 for all parts of the world? Overpopulation Europe
17. A permanent move to a new location is called: MIGRATION
18. The ability to move from one location to another is: VOLUNTARY MIGRATION
19. The desire to reunify with family living in another country would be consider what kind of factor? cultural
20. Is this (desire to reunify with family) cultural factor push or pull? PULL
21. Which gender sends the most adults internationally? MALE
22. Which gender migrates the most interregional or intraregional? WOMEN
23. Migration and circulation are both forms of: MOBILITY
24. Which country relocated its capital in 1960 to the interior of the country from the coast in order to encourage interregional migration? BRAZIL
25. Which country enticed their people to move from the island of JAVA to other less populated islands with money and land opportunities? INDONESIA
26. How many unauthorized immigrants are thought to be residing in the U.S. in millions? 1.9 million
27. What was the intervening obstacle for early Colonial Americans wishing to move West? APPALACHIANS
28. Why did Americans bypass the Midwest heading further west? GOLD RUSH
29. When did the Scandinavians come to the USA? 1800s
30. What famous Island served as a processing center off of NYC to process immigrants until the 1950s? ELLIS ISLE
31. 3/4 of all immigrants to the USA are accepted because of what status? They have family members here
32. What must an adult male or female have in order to be accepted into the USA if they do not have family her? SKILL or professional degree
33. What 2 countries sent the largest # political refugees to the USA? CUBA and VIETNAM
34. Which will the USA Immigration Department accept? A person hurt by politics or by economics first? POLITICAL
35. Which country has the most foreign born residents? USA
36. Name 3 continents with net-in migration: North America, Oceania, Europe
37. Name 3 continents with net-out migration: Africa, Asia, and Latin America
38. After the Appalachian Mountains, what was the next intervening obstacle for Americans heading West? MISSISSIPPI River
39. What mode of transportation helped Americans move West took engineering skills and thousands of miles of access to the Midwest? CANALS
40. Only what percentage of people can be accepted into the USA from each country of the world? 7%
41. What kind of status are Guest workers? low status
42. What was diffused to the USA from Britain that is still apparent today? Democracy. two house of Congress, language, Christianity, industrial revolution, medical revolution, art, literature, architecture
43. What is brain drain? Large scale emigration by talented people.
44. Name one environmental PUSH factor? bad climate, bad climate that kills crops, inability to farm
45. Ravenstein's Laws explained what? Why migrants move and their characteristics
46. Zelinsky's Laws of Migration explained what? Why migrants move according to the Demographic Transition Model and his new Migration Transition Model
47. Lee's Model explained what? What are the push and pull factors for immigration and emigration
48. Migrants from a location - emigration 49. migration to a new location = immigration 50. mobility=all types of movement from 1 location to another. 51. What’s the difference between physiological, arithmetic, & ag density?