AP Geography - Chapter 3 Flashcards

7619049694	Asylum seeker	someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee	0
7619051852	Topological space	the perception that one place is closer than another due to familiarity with the place	1
7619054822	Voluntary migration	permanent movement undertaken by choice	2
7619056577	Brain drain	a large scale emigration of talented people	3
7619058251	Unauthorized immigrants	people who enter a country without proper documentation to do so.	4
7619063228	Chain migration	migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.	5
7619072942	Refugees	people who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, or membership in a social group or political opinion.	6
7619080649	Quotas	in reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.	7
7619084112	Counterurbanization	net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.	8
7619087464	Pull factor	a factor that induces, or attracts, people to move to a new location.	9
7619089552	Push factor	a factor that induces people to leave old residences.	10
7619093357	Emigration	migration from a location (exiting)	11
7619094954	Net migration	the difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.	12
7619097323	Floodplain	the area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends.	13
7619100854	Mobility	all types of movement between locations	14
7619103218	Forced migration	permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors.	15
7619106077	Migration transition	a 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.	16
7619110693	Guest worker	a term once used for a worker to migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job.	17
7619118636	Migration	a form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.	18
7619121040	Immigration	migration to a new location (moving in).	19
7619122962	Intraregional migration	permanent movement within one region of a country.	20
7619125455	Interregional migration	permanent movement from one region of a country to another.	21
7619127038	Internal migration	permanent movement within a particular country	22
7619129741	International migration	permanent movement from one country to another.	23
7619133444	Internally displaced person	someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border.	24
7619138770	Intervening obstacle	an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.	25
7619142602	Step migration	migration to a destination that does not happen all at once but in a series of steps.	26
7619145036	Friction of distance	The farther away a place is, the more difficult it is to get there.	27
7619149092	Distance decay	the diminishing in importance, and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.	28
7619152252	Relocation diffusion	the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.	29
7619155609	Intervening opportunity	the existence of a closer, less expensive, or more attractive option that arises during migration so as to interrupt the migration process.	30