Human Migration Vocab Quiz

What is the definition of net migration?

• A factor that draws or attracts people to another location

• A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region

• The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration

• The physical movement by humans from one area to another

Which term refers to a factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region?

• Pull factors

• Voluntary migration

• Push factors

• Net migration

What is the definition of voluntary migration?

• A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region

• The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration

• Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced

• The physical movement by humans from one area to another

What is the definition of forced migration?

• The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration

• The physical movement by humans from one area to another

• A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region

• Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate

What is the definition of internal migration?

• Permanent movement from one region of a country to another

• A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures

• Permanent movement within one region of a country

• The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

What is the definition of step migration?

• Permanent movement from one region of a country to another

• Permanent movement within one region of a country

• Migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination

• Repeated movement between two or more places, either within or between countries

What is the definition of circular migration?

• Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.

• repeated movement between two or more places, either within or between countries

• Migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination

• pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links

What is the definition of transnational migration?

• Permanent movement from one region of a country to another

• Permanent movement within one region of a country

• Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages

• A form of population movement in which a person regularly moves between two or more countries and forms a new cultural identity transcending a single geopolitical unit

What is the definition of chain migration?

• pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links

• Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city

• a foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country

• permanent movement from an agrarian sparsely populated region to a densely populated metropolitan area

What is the definition of rural-to-urban migration?

• pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links

• Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city

• a foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country

• permanent movement from an agrarian sparsely populated region to a densely populated metropolitan area