Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Chapter 6
Where People Move and Why?
120
Geography
9th Grade
10/13/2008

Additional Geography Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
What country is the most mobile in the world?
Definition
U.S.A.
Term
How many people in the United States move from state to state every other year?
Definition
Over 5 million
Term
Approximately how many people move within their state, county, community every year?
Definition
35 million
Term
On an average, approximately how often do Americans move?
Definition
Every 6 years
Term
What is migration the result of?
Definition
Perception (mental constructs)
Term
What does perception often look like and what does it lead to?
Definition
Distorted; leading to other decisions (returning home)
Term
What is a straight line distance?
Definition
Absolute distance
Term
What is the actual street distance?
Definition
Relative distance
Term
What helps sustain the U.S. natural increase?
Definition
Migration
Term
What is the relocation of people?
Definition
MIgration
Term
What is the resulting subtraction from a country because of someone leaving?
Definition
Emigration
Term
What is the resulting addition to a country because of someone arriving?
Definition
Immigration
Term
Present-day China had a major internal migration bringing millions of workers from rural areas to burgeoning cities where?
Definition
Pacific Rim
Term
The early 20th century migration stream took tens of thousands of what type of people from the South to the North and Midwest?
Definition
African Americans
Term
A degree of difference between source & destination, the effectiveness of flow of information from the destination back to the source, and the physical distance between the source & destination are 3 what?
Definition
Factors that indicate the intensity of a migration flow
Term
In 1885 what British Demographer studies internal migration?
Definition
Ernst Ravenstein
Term
What were Ernst Ravenstein's 5 "Laws of migration"?
Definition
1. Net migration amounts to fraction of gross between the source area and destination.
2. Majority of migrants move short distances.
3. Migrants who move large distances tend to move to large cities.
4. Urban residents are less likely to migrant than rural residents.
5. Families are less likely to make international moves than young people.
Term
The average number migrants _________ as the distance between the source area and destination _________.
Definition
Decreases; increases
Term
What is the measure of interaction of places?
Definition
Gravity Model
Term
What 2 areas attract legals & illegals?
Definition
North America and West Europe
Term
In 1980 more than 125,000 cubans left Cuba on what escape route?
Definition
Mariel Boatlife
Term
In 1972 Uganda's dictator (whats his name?) expelled 50,000 Asians & Ugandans of Asian decent?
Definition
Idi Amin
Term
In the 1990's what country had 3 million people leave permanently?
Definition
Yugoslavia
Term
In the mid 1990's Rwanda in Equatorial Africa had how many dead? & a major migration to where had approximately 2 million?
Definition
600,000 dead; Zaire & Tanzania
Term
In the 1840's many people left Ireland to go to the New World for what reason?
Definition
The potato crop rotted from lack of rain, famine
Term
In the 1990's after decades on Soviet obstruction, how many Jews left USSR for Israel?
Definition
Over 2 million
Term
In the 1990's many whites from South Africa migrated where?
Definition
Australia, Europe, and North America
Term
What invention migrated people from the Sunbelt to the North?
Definition
Air-conditioning
Term
News and job opportunities travel faster with the help of what?
Definition
Television and radio
Term
Who quickly heard Germany's need for immigrant labor?
Definition
Turkey
Term
What are things that make people want to move away from a place?
Definition
Push factors
Term
What are things that make people want to move to a place?
Definition
Pull factors
Term
What are small steps to a final destination?
Definition
Step migration
Term
What is getting caught up in job opportunities on a migration path to a destination?
Definition
Intervening opportunity
Term
After WWI who wanted to go North but got stopped at places like St. Louis because of job opportunities?
Definition
African Americans
Term
What is relocation by choice?
Definition
Voluntary migration
Term
What is relocation by force?
Definition
Forced migration
Term
What migration isn't clear-cut?
Definition
European to United States migration
Term
The north atlantic slave trade involved how many African Americans?
Definition
Between 12 and 30 million
Term
In 1788 convicts were shipped from where to where?
Definition
Britain to Australia
Term
In the 1800's thousands of North Americans were forced where?
Definition
Reservations
Term
What type of migration is a type of forced migration?
Definition
Counter migration
Term
What type of migration flows generate a return, or counter, migration?
Definition
Voluntary migration
Term
What doesn't work with forced migrations?
Definition
Returning from a destination to a source
Term
What is a daily routine that takes people through a regular sequence of short moves?
Definition
Activity (or action) space
Term
What is activity space affected by?
Definition
Technology
Term
What are short trips that begin at home and bring us back to it?
Definition
Cyclic Movement
Term
What is an example, or type, of cyclic movement?
Definition
Commuting-trips several hours & transport modes
Term
What is movement from home to new places and back depending on season?
Definition
Seasonal movement
Term
What is an example of Seasonal movement?
Definition
Nomadism-aimless wandering across steppe and desert by small groups of rootless roamers
Term
What is movement that involves less back and forth mobility but a longer period of residence?
Definition
Periodic Movement
Term
What are 3 examples of periodic movement?
Definition
1. Military Service (10 million U.S. citizens)
2. Migrant Labor (millions in U.S., tens of millions worldwide)
3. Transhumance (pasterol farming which farmers and livestock move with season)
Term
What is it called when movement turns into permanent settlement?
Definition
Migratory
Term
What is it called when someone is unable to adjust to a new destination and returns home?
Definition
Return migration
Term
For the past 5 centuries an unpredicted scale of migration was generated by what?
Definition
Europe
Term
In the European Emigration (no counterpart), before the 1830's how many Europeans left?
Definition
2.75 million
Term
Between 1835 and 1935 how many Europeans left Europe?
Definition
75 million
Term
In the European Emigration the British went to where?
Definition
North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
Term
In the European emigration Spain and Portugal went where?
Definition
Middle and South America
Term
What were some European settlements in the European Emigration?
Definition
Angolia, Kenya, Java
Term
In the African forced migration, it began in the 16th century when Africans were brought where?
Definition
Carribbean
Term
In the African forced migration, early decades on 17th century, small numbers of African americans were on plantations where?
Definition
Coastal Eastern North America
Term
In the African forced migration Benin and Bahia still had what remaining after?
Definition
Cultural Elements
Term
In the African forced migration Arab raiders were active where?
Definition
East Africa and Horn (Zanzibar)
Term
In the African forced migration the British took thousands of what from South Asia?
Definition
Indentured Servants
Term
The British renewed Indian migration which brought South Asians to where?
Definition
Malay Peninsula (including Singapore) and Pacific holdings (including figi)
Term
Chinese in Southeast Asia account for what substantial portions of natural population?
Definition
1. Thailand-14%
2. Malaysia-32 %
3. Singapore- greater than or equal to 76%
4. Indonesia- 3% (over 200 million people)
Term
In the 20th century governments where restricted China immigration?
Definition
Southeast Asia
Term
China minorities in Southeast Asia tend to be what and engage in what?
Definition
Urban; trade, commerce, finance
Term
What is it called when there is a cross of international borders (when there is a move from realm to realm)?
Definition
Interregional Migrations
Term
In the African American North to South movement North movement _________ during when?
Definition
Increased; WWI
Term
In the African American North to South movement, in 1920's North movement?
Definition
Increased
Term
In the African American North to South movement in the 1930's North movement?
Definition
Decreased
Term
In 1900 what percent of U.S. blacks lived outside the South?
Definition
10%
Term
In 2000 what percent of U.S. blacks lived outside the South?
Definition
50%
Term
What were the causes of African American to move North to South?
Definition
1. Changed civil rights conditions in U.S.
2. Disillusionment with living conditions in the North and West.
3. Perceived economic opportunities in the South
Term
In the early 20th century how many jews were in past-day palestine?
Definition
50,000
Term
In 1919-1948 who held mandate over Palestine?
Definition
United Kingdom
Term
How many Jews were in Palestine in 1948?
Definition
750,000
Term
What was created with the help of UN?
Definition
Israel
Term
In the creation on Israel how many Palestine Arabs were sent where?
Definition
600,000; Jordan, Egypt, Syria
Term
How many people are in Israel today?
Definition
6.4 million (1 million Arabs)
Term
Before the creation of what did Germans flee to Soviet-controlled East Germany into West Germany?
Definition
Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain
Term
Many Germans left Europe and went to where during the post 1945 external migrations?
Definition
U.S. (1.8 million)
Canada (1.1 million)
Australia (1 million)
Israel (750,000)
Argentina (750,000)
Brazil (500,000)
Venezuela (500,000)
Term
In the 1990's during the Mexico to Southwest U.S. how many legal immigrants had reached the U.S?
Definition
2 million
Term
In 1961 during the Mexico to Southwest U.S. how many legal immigrants had reached the U.S?
Definition
3 million
Term
In the 1990's during the Asia to U.S. migration how many immigrants came legally?
Definition
2.5 million
Term
What was the order from first to last of the Asia to U.S. migration?
Definition
Philippines, Vietnam, China, India
Term
What were some European Consequences on post 1945 external migrations?
Definition
1. Need of labors
2. Immigrants went from poor to wealthy countries
3. Political Problems from ethnicities and religions
Term
In the post 1945 external migration to North America in the 1960's what took Cubans to America?
Definition
Cuban Airlift
Term
Where did many Cubans go to?
Definition
Miami
Term
In South Florida the core Hispanic center, Dade county is officially what?
Definition
Bicultural and Bilingual
Term
In 1960-1970's cubans arrived to North America as what?
Definition
Refugees
Term
In 2000 how many Cubans had arrived in North America?
Definition
Over half million
Term
In 1970 UN reported how many refugees?
Definition
2.9 million
Term
In 1980 UN reported how many refugees?
Definition
8 million
Term
In 1990 UN reported how many refugees?
Definition
17 million
Term
In 2000 UN reported how many refugees?
Definition
24 million
Term
The UN funds what?
Definition
International relief efforts
Term
The UN does what about refugees?
Definition
Negotiates with governments on behalf of refugees
Term
What are the reasons for the dispute between UN and other agencies about refugees?
Definition
1. Different definitions of refugee
2. Refugees flee into difficult counting areas
3. Governments change refugee numbers for political objectives
Term
In 2000 UN counts how many uncounted refugees?
Definition
25 million
Term
What are the three characteristics of a refugee?
Definition
1. Most move without tangible property they can transport
2. Most make 1st step on foot, bike, wagon, boat
3. Refugees move without official documents
Term
In the late 1990's what were the refugee rankings from greatest to lowest?
Definition
1. Africa, South of Sahara
2. Southwest Asia and North Africa
3. South Asia
Term
In Subsaharan Africa what country collapsed?
Definition
Zaire
Term
What is Africa's worst refugee locale?
Definition
Sudan
Term
In 2001 in Subsaharan Africa the discovery of what led to expulsion of thousands?
Definition
Oil reserves
Term
In 1997 the UNHCR reported how many refugees in GUinea and Ivory Coast?
Definition
1.5 million
Term
What country had over 1 million intranational refugees?
Definition
Angolia
Term
In the 1980's what country was caught in the Soviets last imperalist campaign?
Definition
Afghanistan
Term
In 1979 the Soviet invasion generated what that carried millions westward into Iran and Eastward into Pakistan?
Definition
Double migration
Term
How many millions in Afghanistan were brought into Iran and Pakistan?
Definition
Iran-2.5 million
Pakistan-3.7 million
Term
In 1996 who took control of most of Afghanistan and imposed Islamic rule?
Definition
Islamic Fundamentalist
Term
In the 1990's how many refugees were in South Asia?
Definition
Between 1.2 and 1.5 million
Term
What in South Asia caused additional refugee problems?
Definition
Sri Lanka Civil War
Term
In 1975 how many refugees from Vietnam came into Southeast Asia?
Definition
Between 1 and 2 million
Term
In the 1990's approximately how many refugees from Cambodia went to Thailand because of violence?
Definition
300,000
Term
Today the largest refugee camps are intranational camps where?
Definition
Burma (Myanmar)
Term
In 1997 Columbia's major refugee problem is because of what?
Definition
Struggle against drug dealers
Term
Earth's refugee problem is a what?
Definition
Barometer of the world's future
Supporting users have an ad free experience!