Ap Flashcards

7873168917	Migration	the movement of persons from one country or locality to another	0
7873186250	Emigration	Movement of individuals out of a population	1
7873208353	Immagration	Moving into a population	2
7873226256	Net migration	Th gain or loss in a total population in a particular area as a result of migration	3
7873292200	Circulation	Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.	4
7873308189	Push factor	Factor that induces people to leave old residences.	5
7873326655	Pull factor	Induces people to move into a new location.	6
7925346386	Refugees	People who flee their homeland to seek safety elsewhere	7
7925355281	Asylum	Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state.	8
7925371091	Intervening Obstacle	An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.	9
7925390191	International Migration	Human movement involving movement across international boundaries.	10
7925398111	Internal Migration	The permanent or semipermanent movement of individuals within a particular country.	11
7925406872	Interregional Migartion	Permanet movment from one region of a country to another. Ex. Moving to Maine from Arizona	12
7925437817	Intaregional Migration	Movement within a region or counrty. Ex. Permanently moving to the midwest	13
7925491328	Voluntary migration	Permanent movement undertaken by choice	14
7925498327	Forced migration	Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate	15
7925504946	Wilbur Zelinsky	(born 1921) is recognized as one of America's most prominent cultural geographers	16
7925519373	Chain Migration	pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links	17
7925539008	Undocumented immigrants	People who enter a country without proper documents.	18
7925551605	Quotas	Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year Ex. In 2013 only 300,000 immigrants can come to this country	19
7925581264	Brain Drain	Large-scale emigration by talented people. A band emigrates to a country	20
7925598218	Guest workers	Individuals who migrate temporarily to take up jobs in other countries	21
7925617031	Counterurbanization	The net loss of population from cities to smaller towns and rural areas.	22
7925632950	Gravity Model	A model that holds the potential use of a servace at a particular location Ex. People in a location? distance people must travel	23
7925686520	Distance decay	The decline of an activity or function with increasing distance from the place of origin.	24
7925706748	Step migration	Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages	25
7925726760	Counter Migration/return migration	The return of migrants which they earlier emigration. Ex. Refugees returing to there country when the disaster is over	26
7925765777	Activity Space	The area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity	27
7925781547	Cyclic Movement	Movement that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally	28
7925794608	Commuting	Paterns in human/economic systems, based on Newtons gravity equations.	29
7925834653	Sesonal movement	Migration based on the particular season . Ex. In the summer, some people go on vacations	30
7925875072	Periodic movement	Migration involving temporary, recurrent relocation. Ex: military service, college, etc.	31
7925882087	Transhumance	The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.	32
7925901589	International Refugee	A person who as been displaced from their country, and trys to find an asylum.	33
7925940436	Intranational refugee	A refugee who never returns to their own contry	34
7925966708	Permanent refugee	A statis given to a refugee after being granted full citizenship status.	35
7926023259	Temporary refugee	Status given to a refugee prior to receiving permanent residency in a new country	36
7926098074	Immigration laws	Laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state.	37
7926118367	Mobility	All types of movement from one location to another. E.g. The ability to move	38
7926160625	Transnational Migrants	Groups of people who maintain ties to their homelands after they have migrated.	39
7926181745	Suburbanization	The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe.	40
7926230055	Eco-Migration	Population movement caused by the degradation of land	41
7926267502	Migration fields	Area from which a given city or place draws a majority of the in-migrants	42
7926285481	Channelized Migration	The tendancy for migration to flow between areas that are socialy and economically alied by past migration patterns	43
7926353971	Ravensteins laws of Migration	Most migrants move only a short distance. There is a process of absorption, whereby people immediately surrounding a rapidly growing town move into it and the gaps they leave are filled by other migrants. E.g how big cities are formed	44
7926422506	Intevening Opprotunity	The presence of a nearer opprotunity that greatly diminishes the atractiveness of site farther away. Ex. A new job opprotunity opens up near you so you dont do to the one farther away.	45
7926481896	Remittance	Human migration flows in which the movers have not choice but to relocate. Ex. Your family mowes to France.	46
7926514701	Xeonphobia	Fear or dislike of foreigners significantly different from oneself.	47