Chapter 8 Review

The largest migration stream into the U.S. comes from Mexico

• True

• False

Many people migrate so that their children can have a better education

• True

• False

All immigrants that come to the U.S. are uneducated and work on farms

• True

• False

Immigrants have come to the U.S. in five different immigration waves

• True

• False

Someone who seeks safety by going to another country is known as a

• immigrant

• emigrant

• refugee

• migrant

The constant flow of migrants from one country into another country is known as

• persecution

• drought

• push factor

• migration stream

When people move to a new country they are called

• immigrants

• emigrants

• refugees

• persecution

What is the unfair treatment of people because of who they are or what they believe

• emigrant

• persecution

• immigrant

• drought

The loss of well educated people such as doctors or engineers to another country is called

• brain drain

• remittances

• immigrants

• job loss

All of the following are major push factors that cause people to leave their home countries except

• hunger

• poverty

• violent conflict

• economic opportunity