These are the vocabulary words from Rubenstein's AP Human Geography textbook.
Chapter-3: Migration
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| 1855909197 | Activity Space | the space within which daily activity occurs | 0 | |
| 1855909198 | Brain Drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. | 1 | |
| 1855909199 | Chain Migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | 2 | |
| 1855909200 | circulation | short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis | 3 | |
| 1855909201 | distance decay function | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin | 4 | |
| 1855909202 | emigration | migration from a location | 5 | |
| 1855909203 | immigration | migration to a location | 6 | |
| 1855909204 | forced migration | permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors | 7 | |
| 1855909205 | voluntary migration | permanent movement undertaken by choice | 8 | |
| 1855909206 | gravity model | A mathematical formula that describes the level of interaction between two places, based on the size of their populations and their distance from each other | 9 | |
| 1855909207 | guest worker | a person with temporary permission to work in another country | 10 | |
| 1855909208 | internal migration | permanent movement within the same country | 11 | |
| 1855909209 | international migration | permanent movement from one country to another | 12 | |
| 1855909210 | intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration | 13 | |
| 1855909211 | migration transition | 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 | 14 | |
| 1855909212 | migration stream | A constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination | 15 | |
| 1855909213 | migration selectivity | Only people exhibiting certain characteristics in a population choosing to migrate | 16 | |
| 1855909214 | mobility | the quality of moving freely | 17 | |
| 1855909215 | net migration | the difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration | 18 | |
| 1855909216 | push factors | factors that induce people to leave old residences | 19 | |
| 1855909217 | pull factors | factors that induce people to move to a new location | 20 | |
| 1855909218 | refugee | people who are forced to migrate from thier home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of thier race, religion, nationality, membership of a social group, of political opinion | 21 | |
| 1855909219 | urbanization | an increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements | 22 | |
| 1855909220 | suburbanization | The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe | 23 | |
| 1855909221 | counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries | 24 | |
| 1855909222 | interregional migration | movement from one region of a country to another | 25 | |
| 1855909223 | intraregional | movement within a region | 26 |
