AP Human Geography (The Cultural Landscape-Rubenstein) Vocabulary Chapter 3 Flashcards

These are the vocabulary words from Rubenstein's AP Human Geography textbook.
Chapter-3: Migration

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