Chapter 3 test review

18. A principal factor in the population shift westward in the 1850s was

A) a gold rush.

8. A Syrian family migrated from Syria through Turkey to Greece without immigration documents. Although Greece does not grant the family refugee status and they face the risk of deportation, theirs is a case of international and ________ migration

A) forced

31. You might propose a(n) ________ program for your country if you wanted to hire a large number of manual laborers from neighboring countries to build a large dam or canal, with the understanding that they would not be granted any other privileges or legal status in your country, after the project is finished.

A) guest worker

25. The Trail of Tears represented for America's indigenous population *

A) legally mandated forced migration.

2. The term that best describes a permanent move to a new location is

A) migration.

29. Using the figure below, it is correct to say

A) most migration flows originate and/or end in Asia.

33. Brain drain is *

A) the large-scale emigration of talented people

22. Rural to urban migration beginning in the 1800s in the United States was an outgrowth of

C) a demographic shift in family size.

28. A physical feature, such as a body of water, might actually aid transportation and migration because ocean travel may be easier than overland travel. However, if that physical feature hinders migration, it is an example of

C) an intervening obstacle.

14. The most popular destination for voluntary migrants from Great Britain in the eighteenth century colonial period was *

C) eastern coast of North America.

4. Which one of the following is the best example of circulation migration?

C) going to the same grocery store once a week to stock up on food and supplies

5. Wilbur Zelinsky's model of migration predicted

C) migration characteristics tend to go along with the demographic transition.

35. A number of localities in the U.S. have passed local resolutions supporting more rights for unauthorized immigrants; this is a movement known as:

D) Sanctuary City.

26. Which of the following represents voluntary migration?

D) Vietnamese secondary relocation from Bismarck, North Dakota to Westminster, California

27. The most common environmental push factor worldwide is

D) availability (too much or too little) of water

34. U.S. quota laws from the 1920s until the 1960s had the effect of *

D) ensuring the majority of migrants continued to be from Europe

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

D) opening of a new factory

17. From the discussions of demographic changes within the United States we can deduce that the largest level of interregional migration in the United States was caused by the *

D) opening up of the western territories to settlement.

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

D) west.

20. Which of the following is NOT true?

E) Countries with low NIR but strong economies commonly experience net out-migration.

12. Which of the following does NOT represent one of the United States' 3 main eras of immigration?

E) The leading sources of twenty-first century Asian immigration are the result of climate change in places such as Bangladesh, Oceania, or the Maldives.

7. Which of the following people would you predict to be most likely to engage in voluntary migration in the near future?

E) a teenaged girl in China whose rural family would like to plan to send a younger sibling to college in the future

16. Recent immigrants to the United States

E) are spread throughout several states according to economic prospects.

24. Refugees and asylum seekers migrate most often because of which type of push factor?

E) political

10. The greatest total number of foreign-born residents can be found in

E) the United States.

40. Mexico has open borders on both of the southern and northern borders.

False

37. Individual retirees who travel south for the winter and return north during the summer are evidence of both push and pull environmental factors and circular migration

True

41. Florida, Texas, California, and New York receive half of the immigrants that come to America

True

42. If a country has more emigrants than immigrants it has a net- out migration *

True

45. Ravenstein's laws of migration included that most international immigrants were young males.

True

39. After WWII, more immigrants to the US came from Latin America and Asia.

true

44. Counterurbanization means to move from urban areas to rural areas.

true

13. If your ancestors migrated to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s, barring any other evidence, you might strongly suspect that they originated in

B) Ireland or Germany

11. The largest number of both legal and undocumented immigrants to the United States come from what country?

B) Mexico

36. Europe has recently experienced a major influx of migrants fleeing civil tumult from which country?

B) Syria

3. A country has net in-migration if immigration numbers

B) exceed emigration numbers.

6. Which of the following current migration flows is the LEAST significant in terms of total numbers of people?

B) from Africa to Europe

1.The ability to move either temporarily or permanently is best described by the term *

B) mobility.

9. Several million Irish and Germans migrated in the 1840s primarily because

B) of disastrous economic conditions brought on by government policy and displacement by the Industrial Revolution.

21. Which intraregional migration trend in the United States has been occurring sine the 1950s?

B) urban to suburban