Deck 3: Migration

Question 1

Which of the following events would be considered a migration pull factor?

A) religious persecution
B) failed harvest
C) flooding of a river
D) opening of a new factory
E) civil war

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The leading cause for migration to the United States and Canada has been

A) freedom from religious persecution.
B) avoiding harsh environmental conditions.
C) forced migration.
D) economic opportunity.
E) fleeing dictatorial governments.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Migration to the suburbs in the United States is driven by

A) changes in employment.
B) the opportunity to work in factories or service industries.
C) the opportunity to live in a detached house with a yard.
D) declining opportunities in agriculture.
E) a lack of any kind of housing in urban areas.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Counterurbanization has occurred primarily in

A) the West Coast states.
B) the Southern states.
C) the Northeastern states.
D) the Midwestern states.
E) the Rocky Mountain states.

Question 5

Which factor most often causes migration?

A) economic
B) environmental
C) international
D) political
E) regional conflicts

Question 6

Counterurbanization is

A) the move from urban core to suburban areas.
B) due to expanding suburbs.
C) migration to rural areas and small towns.
D) the trend of the elderly retiring to rural locations.
E) decline of the inner-city infrastructure.

Question 7

The Brazilian government encouraged interregional migration by

A) making Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo more attractive.
B) dictating optimal locations for factories.
C) clearing the rain forest for agricultural activities in the interior.
D) moving the capital to Brasilia.
E) industrial development on the Atlantic coast.

Question 8

Worldwide,rural to urban migration is

A) the major trend in developing countries.
B) driven by a desire for a simpler lifestyle.
C) the major trend today in the U.S. and Canada.
D) a thing of the past.
E) driven by population growth.

Question 9

Wilbur Zelinsky's model of migration predicted

A) women are more likely to migrate than men.
B) long migration distances are more likely than short.
C) migration characteristics vary with the demographic transition.
D) intraregional migration is more important than interregional.
E) migrants move most frequently for economic reasons.

Question 10

The migration transition model predicts that international migration reaches a peak at ________ of the demographic transition.

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4

Question 11

The government of Brazil has encouraged migration

A) from the interior to the coast.
B) from rural to urban areas.
C) to the United States and Europe.
D) from the coast to the interior.
E) to jobs in factories.

Question 12

What source region dominated migration to the United States in the nineteenth century?

A) Latin America
B) Asia
C) Europe
D) Africa
E) North Africa and Southwest Asia

Question 13

A country has net in-migration if emigration ________ immigration.

A) equals
B) exceeds
C) is closer to net migration than
D) is less than
E) varies more than

Question 14

The U.S.center of population has moved steadily to the

A) east.
B) north.
C) south.
D) west.
E) center.

Question 15

What source region dominated migration to the United States in the second part of the twentieth century?

A) Europe
B) Latin America
C) Asia
D) Africa
E) Asia and Latin America together

Question 16

Migration is a

A) form of expansion diffusion.
B) temporary move, but for longer than one day.
C) form of contagious diffusion.
D) permanent move to a new location.
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 17

The recession of the early 21st century resulted in

A) slowed interregional migration because there were few opportunities anywhere.
B) slowed intraregional migration because housing prices were high.
C) increased interregional migration because of job searches.
D) increased intraregional migration because of job searches.
E) intraregional migration matched perfectly with interregional migration.

Question 18

Intraregional migration in the United States has slowed recently because of

A) lifestyle choices.
B) the economic recession.
C) a desire for detached houses with private yards.
D) job growth in urban centers.
E) a counterurbanization trend.

Question 19

Ravenstein found that most migrants generally travel

A) short distances within the same country.
B) long distances to other countries.
C) short distances to other countries.
D) to rural areas for farming.
E) from North America to Europe.

Question 20

Which of the following is not presently one of the three largest migration flows in the world?

A) to Europe from Asia
B) to Europe from Africa
C) to North America from Asia
D) to North America from Latin America

Question 21

A majority of undocumented migrants to the United States come from

A) China.
B) Mexico.
C) Canada.
D) Europe.
E) Africa.

Question 22

The difference between the number of people migrating to a place and the number leaving is called net migration.

Question 23

Job opportunities in the city is the biggest push factor away from rural areas in developing countries.

Question 24

The Pew Hispanic Center estimated in 2010 that there were about ________ undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

A) 6 million
B) 8 million
C) 11 million
D) 15 million
E) 22 million

Question 25

The center of U.S.population has moved westward for the last 200 years.

Question 26

The most common environmental push factor is too much or too little water.

Question 27

Brain drain is

A) the large-scale emigration of talented people.
B) the process by which people are given reference for migration.
C) people forced to migrate for political reasons.
D) a cultural feature that hinders migration.
E) a net decline in literacy.

Question 28

Opposition to immigration in the United States coincided with

A) the majority of immigrants no longer arriving from Europe.
B) increased tensions over the Vietnam war.
C) decreased legal migration.
D) the economic boom of the 1990s.
E) large numbers of refugees moving into the country.

Question 29

Interregional migration in the U.S.has increased in the early twenty-first century.

Question 30

Immigrants to the United States under the age of 15

A) are less common than the proportion of children already in the U.S. population.
B) are more common than the proportion of children already in the U.S. population.
C) are equally common than the proportion of children already in the U.S. population.
D) cannot legally immigrate.
E) may only arrive with their mothers and proper immigration documents.

Question 31

All other things being equal,the farther away a place is,the less likely it is a destination for migration.

Question 32

Immigration and emigration have the same meaning,only different spellings.

Question 33

Migration to the United States declined during the 1920s primarily because of

A) economic depression in the United States.
B) forced migration after World War I.
C) the imposition of quota laws.
D) declining demand for industrial workers.
E) declining demand for domestic workers.

Question 34

Countries with slow population growth but strong economies commonly experience out-migration.

Question 35

Russia and Indonesia have both adopted policies to encourage migration to less-populated areas of each country.

Question 36

The most important type of internal migration within the United States is from urban to suburban.

Question 37

Refugees migrate primarily because of which type of push factor?

A) economic
B) environmental
C) political
D) circulation
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 38

When did the gender pattern of migrants to the United States switch from more men than women to more women than men?

A) the 1920s
B) the 1950s
C) the 1970s
D) the 1990s
E) the 2000s

Question 39

During the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries,immigration to the United States was mostly from Europe.

Question 40

Unrestricted immigration to the United States was first limited by

A) hemispheric quotas in 1975.
B) the start of World War II.
C) the Constitution.
D) the National Origins Act of 1924.
E) the Quota Act of 1921.

Question 41

A fence guards the entire U.S.-Mexico border.

Question 42

Describe the general relationship between population growth and migration.

Question 43

Migration to the United States declined in the 1920s as a result of new laws.What did these laws do?

Question 44

Several million people have migrated to the United States illegally in recent years.Why have most of these people come to the United States?

Question 45

The United States sets a yearly quota on the number of refugees accepted each year.

Question 46

In recent years,the immigration quota has been sufficient to accommodate all people who wish to migrate to the United States.

Question 47

European countries continue guest worker programs today.

Question 48

The three major kinds of push factors are political,economic,and environmental.

Question 49

List the major push and pull factors in migration and give examples of each.

Question 50

More women than men migrate to the United States each year.

Question 51

Describe suburbanization in more developed countries.

Question 52

Describe changes in the movement of the U.S.center of population and reasons for those changes.

Question 53

Describe the major intraregional and interregional migration patterns within the United States in recent years.

Question 54

Most migration occurs because of a combination of push and pull factors.