AP Human Geo Vocabulary (Chapter 3)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Remittances | money migrant send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part in the economy in many poorer countries |
| Cyclic Movements | movement that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally |
| Nomadism | takes place across familiar landscapes year round |
| Periodic Movements | longer period of time away, but still returning home |
| Migrant Labor | a common type of periodic movement involving millions of workers in the US and tens of millions of workers worldwide who cross international boarders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances |
| Transhumance | a seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock b/w highland and lowland pastures |
| Migration | permanent relocation across significant distances |
| Internal Migration | human movement within a nation-state, such as ongoing westward and southward movements |
| Forced Migration | human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate |
| Voluntary Migration | movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not b/c they were forced to move |
| Laws of Migration | 5 laws that predict the flow of migrants, developed by British demographer Ernst Ravenstein |
| Gravity Model | a mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction of being a function of popular size of the respective places and scales |
| Push/Pull Factors | push: negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and migrant to a new locale pull: positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas |
| Step Migration | to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to town and city |
| Intervening Opportunity | the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away |
| Chain Migration | pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links ex. when one migrant settles in a place and then writes, calls, or communicates through others to describe this place to family and friends who in turn migrate there |
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