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Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture, 12th Edition
Chapter 03 Testbank: Migration
Multiple Choice
1. The Janjaweed militia burned villages in which country?
a) Ethiopia
b) Sudan
c) Puerto Rico.
d) Cuba
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrants and describe where most refugees migrate.
2. Today, an estimated _________ unauthorized migrants live in the United States.
a) 1.5 million
b) 8.5 million
c) 10.7 million
d. 43.7 million
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
3. What percentage of Haiti’s GDP comes from remittances sent by Haitians living abroad?
a) 18
b) 25
c) 20.7
d) 32.37
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
4. In both the United States and Canada, agricultural workers primarily come from
a) the USA and Canada.
b) China.
c) Mexico and Central America.
d) European student guest workers.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
5. The type of movement that involves journeys that begin at and bring us back to our home base is called
a) periodic.
b) immigration.
c) migratory.
d) cyclic.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
6. Among all migrants in the United States, authorized and unauthorized, migrants from Mexico account for
a) 26 percent.
b) 45 percent.
c) 15 percent.
d) 70 percent.
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective: Explain theories of migration and understand motivations for migration.
7. Commuters in New York City have an average commute of
a) 15 minutes.
b) 48.6 minutes.
c) 25 minutes.
d) 34.7 minutes.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
8. Most pastoral movement takes place according to travel patterns that are
a) purposeful and take place along long-familiar routes.
b) very irregular.
c) limited to desert regions.
d) constantly changing routes.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
9. Which of the identified types of movement creates your activity space?
a) periodic
b) migratory
c) cyclic
d) emigration
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
10. All of the following are examples of cyclic movements except
a) snowbirds.
b) transhumance.
c) commuting to work.
d) migrant workers.
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
11. A cyclic movement practiced in mountain areas when ranchers move livestock vertically during summer months and to lowlands during winter months is called:
a) nomadic herding.
b) transhumance.
c) livestock farming.
d) ranching.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
12. Many retried or semi-retired Americans and Canadians engage in a cyclic movement south for winter months. This group of migrants is referred to as:
a) vacationers.
b) pensioners.
c) snowbirds.
d) chain migrants.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
13. The long-term relocation of an individual, household, or group to a new location outside the community of origin is called
a) resettlement.
b) emigration.
c) migration.
d) transmovement.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
14. Between 1900 to 1970, many African American families in the United States migrated primarily
a) north and west.
b) further south.
c) the far west.
d) to the Pacific coast.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
15. Which US states experienced some of the highest percent increase in population during the period 1990-2018?
a) Louisiana, Alabama, Pennsylvania
b) Texas, Colorado, Utah, Georgia, Florida
c) Wyoming, Maryland, Maine
d) Wyoming, Illinois, Maryland
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
16. In the United States during the late twentieth century, manufacturing jobs shifted south to states with low union rates, lower taxes and other conditions that contributed to the growth of the _________________, a region of economic growth.
a) Corn Belt
b) Bible Belt
c) Rust Belt
d) Sun Belt
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
17. An example of migration flows created by climate change include the people of the Pacific island nation of
a) Iquitos.
b) Ecuador.
c) Tuvalu.
d) Puerto Rico.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
18. Irish migration to North America in the mid-1800s is an example of
a) forced migration.
b) migration which reflects both forced and voluntary aspects of migration.
c) voluntary migration.
d) cyclical migration.
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
19. Gender studies of migration indicate that men ______________ than women.
a) are more mobile
b) migrate farther
c) have more employment choices and income
d) all of the above
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast forced migration and voluntary migration.
20. During the Atlantic slave trade, the smallest number of enslaved persons was sent to
a) British Caribbean.
b) Brazil.
c) French Caribbean.
d) British North America.
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast forced migration and voluntary migration.
21. Which of the following is not one of Ernst Ravenstein’s laws of migration?
a) Every migration flow generates a return or counter-migration.
b) Urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas.
c) The majority of migrants move short distances.
d) The majority of urban migrants are uneducated.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
22. In 1901, this country approved the Immigration Restriction Act, which ended all nonwhite immigration to the country.
a) Africa
b) North America
c) Australia
d) Asia
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Determine how government policies impact migration.
23. One of the “laws” of migration as derived by Ravenstein states that
a) urban residents never migrate.
b) rural residents are less migratory than urban.
c) urban residents are less migratory than rural.
d) rural inhabitants hardly ever migrate.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
24. Ravenstein, in his study of migration, suggested that there is an inverse relationship between the volume of migration and the distance between the source and destination. That is, the number of migrants _____ as the distance they know they must travel increases.
a) increases
b) decreases
c) remains the same
d) decreases and then rises
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
25. What is the model which states that spatial interaction between places (e.g. migration) is directly related to the population size and inversely related to the distance between them?
a) gravity model
b) model of emigration
c) distance decay model
d) intervening opportunity model
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
26. According to Ravenstein, migrants who move longer distances tend to choose
a) warmer destinations.
b) open “frontier” areas.
c) big-city destinations.
d) to migrate as a family unit.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
27. An example of forced labor in the United States involving migrants on work visas includes
a) construction workers.
b) the information technology industry.
c) health care workers.
d) the hotel industry.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
28. Chain migration occurs when
a) The migrant uses technology to find a job in a new place.
b) The migrant finds another opportunity along the way to the intended destination.
c) The migrant travels with large numbers of other migrants.
d) The migrant travels to a place because of communications with family and friends already living in the destination.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
29. Between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, the population of New Orleans fell by ______________, as a result of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
a) 7 percent
b) 14 percent
c)11 percent
d)21 percent
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
30. Between 1820 and 1900, nearly all the immigrants entering the United States came from which areas of Europe?
a) Eastern Europe.
b) Italy.
c) Northern and western Europe.
d) Ireland.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Determine how government policies impact migration.
31. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, millions of Chinese laborers fled famine and political strife in southern China to work as contract laborers in which part of the world?
a) Africa
b) Southeast Asia
c) Europe
d) South America
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
32. European colonialism stimulated the movement of ___________ to the port and coastlines of Southeast Asia where they have become a significant minority population.
a) Africans
b) Central Asians
c) Europeans
d) Chinese
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
33. Major routes of human migration before 1950 include all of the following except:
a) eastern United States to western United States.
b) China to the United States.
c) Europe to Australia.
d) China to India.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: comprehension
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
34. Major islands of sub-Saharan development have occurred in:
a) South Africa and Nigeria.
b) Somalia and Sudan.
c) South Africa and Angola.
d) Congo and Ethiopia.
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
35. Major concentrations of Chinese immigrants are found in all of the following places except
a) Java.
b) southern Malaysia.
c) East Timor.
d) southern Vietnam.
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
36. Since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria in 2011 how many Syrians have fled to neighboring Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq?
a) 1.5 million
b) 5.6 million
c) 3.7 million
d) 6.2 million
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrants and describe where most refugees migrate.
37. In 2010, the center of the U.S. population was located in:
a) Missouri.
b) Ohio.
c) Indiana.
d) Illinois.
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
38. A person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion is officially a:
a) patriot
b) refugee
c) displaced person
d) gypsy
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrants and describe where most refugees migrate.
39. In terms of total number of refugees, _____ is the geographic realm most severely affected by refugee problems.
a) Russia
b) Central America and the Caribbean
c) South America
d) North Africa and Southwest Asia
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrants and describe where most refugees migrate.
40. The intervention of what country in the civil war beginning in 1979 in Afghanistan caused great numbers of refugees to leave the country?
a) India
b) the Soviet Union
c) the United States
d) Pakistan
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrants and describe where most refugees migrate.
41. The refugee crisis in Southwest Asia took place in 1991, when, in the aftermath of the Gulf War, the ______________population of northern Iraq was forced to leave their villages and flee across the Turkish and Iranian borders.
a) Christian
b) Kurdish
c) Indian
d) Jewish
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrants and describe where most refugees migrate.
42. The Afghan Taliban (Islamic fundamentalists) movement, spawned in Pakistan, created a counter migration of 2.5 million Afghanis to _____________.
a) Pakistan
b) Russia
c) India
d) Iran
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrants and describe where most refugees migrate.
43. In recent years, the largest numbers of internally displaced persons in Southeast Asia are reported from
a) Cambodia.
b) Myanmar (Burma).
c) Vietnam.
d) Laos.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrants and describe where most refugees migrate.
44. In 1990’s, the collapse of which of the following European countries produced the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the end of World War II?
a) Turkey
b) Yugoslavia
c) Greece
d) Romania
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrants and describe where most refugees migrate.
45. Recently, the country with the greatest number of IDP’s in the western hemisphere was
a) Brazil.
b) Colombia.
c) Jamaica.
d) Haiti.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrants and describe where most refugees migrate.
46. Migration is not a new issue as this barrier built in the fourteenth century indicates:
a) the United States - Canadian border
b) the Great Wall of China
c) the Berlin Wall
d) fences along the Rio Grande River
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective: Determine how government policies impact migration.
47. In the period from 1882-1907, the United States Congress passed exclusionary immigration laws designed to keep ______________ out of the immigrant stream.
a) Irish
b) Mexicans
c) Chinese
d) Russians
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Determine how government policies impact migration.
48. Human trafficking for sexual exploitation of women and girls accounts for at least _________________ of victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation globally.
a) 95 percent
b) 90 percent
c) 85 percent
d) 75 percent
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast forced migration and voluntary migration.
49. Since September 2001, there has been a greater concern about immigration control to
a) illegal immigrations impact on unemployment rates.
b) the spread of infectious diseases.
c) interrupt drug trafficking.
d) prevent terrorism.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Determine how government policies impact migration.
50. Post September 2001, asylum seekers from 33 countries where _______operates were automatically were automatically detained by the US government.
a) ISIS
b) Hezbollah
c) FARC
d) Al-Qaeda
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Determine how government policies impact migration.
True/False
51. Israel has occupied the Sinai Peninsula since 1967.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrations and describe where most refugees migrate.
52. More than 5,000,000 Mexicans legally immigrated to the United States between 1980-2012.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
53. All of the following stimulated migration: Hurricane Katrina, rising sea levels, and the Irish famine of the 1840’s.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
54. Pastoralism is a type of cyclical movement.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
55. Transhumance movement usually occurs in urban areas.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
56. Texas and Arizona both experienced population increases of greater than 50% from 1990-2018.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
57. As a result of the Atlantic Slave Trade from 1702-1810, most enslaved African were forced to migrate to North America.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast forced migration and voluntary migration.
58. Australia prohibited immigration by non-whites until the 1970’s.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Determine how government policies impact migration.
59. In the years 2000-2009, more Asians immigrated to the U.S. than Europeans.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Determine how government policies impact migration.
60. In recent decades, major internal migrations in the United States are toward the Sunbelt and western states.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
61. Transhumance involves the permanent movement of populations across major mountain range boundaries (e.g. the Andes between Chile and Argentina).
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
62. Pull factors are the conditions or perceptions which help a migrant to decide to leave a place.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
63. Modern forms of slavery affect 40.3 million people worldwide.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast forced migration and voluntary migration.
64. Guest worker programs in Europe allowed migrants to remain in the country temporarily under a work visa.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
65. When migrants move along or through kinship links, this is called chain migration.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
66. Geographers describe cities in developing countries where foreign and domestic investment
and job prospects are concentrated as islands of development.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
67. The Great Migration refers to the internal migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North from the period 1900 to 1970.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
68. Sri Lanka has never experienced significant refugee problems.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrations and describe where most refugees migrate.
69. Very few countries place legal restrictions on immigration.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective: Determine how government policies impact migration.
Essay
70. Define cyclic movement and periodic movement. Give examples (perhaps, from your own experience) of each. Describe your own activity space.
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
71. Look at the map (figure 3.6). Choose three numbered migrations and describe the migrations by type, by who was involved, and the period and consequences of the migration.
Figure 3.6
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Explain migration as a type of movement.
72. Discuss the geography of refugees as a distinct group of migrants. Discuss the difference between internal and international refugees and give examples of each type.
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrations and describe where most refugees migrate.
73. Define push and pull factors and discuss, with examples, the various types of push and pull factors.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective: Explain the theories of migration and understand the motivations for migration.
74. What are some of the economic, social, and security issues involved in the debate over United States immigration policy? Describe the several categories of migrants (authorized, unauthorized, temporary or guest worker, refugee etc.) currently residing in the United States.
Difficulty: Difficult.
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective: Identify why refugees are a distinct group of migrations and describe where most refugees migrate.