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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich areas of the world generally have net "out" migrations?Asia and North AmericaAfrica and EuropeAfrica and AsiaLatin America and Europe
- 2. Multiple ChoiceAccording to Ravenstein which of the following is NOT true?Most migrants are young adults.Most migration is over very long distanceMigration is most often for economic reasons.Migration occurs in steps.
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe wave of immigrants around 1900 to 1915 was different from earlier waves of migration because most were from what area?Southern and Eastern EuropeAsiaAfricaLatin America
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe most common intraregional migration in the U.S. from urban to suburban occurred during 1970-1980.TrueFalse
- 5. Multiple ChoiceNet-In migration will be the greatest source of population increase in the following country(countries).Africa and South AsiaAsia and Latin AmericaAnglo AmericaSouth America
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich US quota laws were aimed at making sure most immigrants were from Europe?Immigration Act of 19651978 Global QuotasImmigration Act of 1990Quota Act of 1921 and National Origin Act of 1924
- 7. Multiple ChoiceSince the 1980s most US In-Migration has come fromEuropeEast AsiaLatin AmericaSouth Asia
- 8. Multiple ChoiceMost migrants move foreconomic reasonscultural reasonsenvironmental reasonspersecution reasons
- 9. Multiple ChoiceGetting up, driving to school, attending school, driving home only to do this all over again is called?inter-regional migrationinterstate migrationchain migrationcirculation migration
- 10. Multiple ChoicePopulation in the US originally moved west but has more recently begun to move where?been stationarymoved northmoved southmoved back east
- 11. Multiple ChoiceIf a country's Immigration is LESS than it's Emigration it hasnet in-migrationnet out-migrationit's population is increasingit needs to set quota laws
- 12. Multiple ChoiceAustralia receives most of it immigrants fromSouth AmericaEast AsiaIndiaMiddle East
- 13. Multiple ChoiceToday the largest number of immigrants come to the US from Latin America. In previous decades the largest number came fromGermanyEnglandIrelandRussia
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is a PULL factor?A hurricanefailed harvestincrease in taxesopening a new factory
- 15. Multiple ChoiceThe ability to move from one place to another ismobilitymigrationnet migrationvoluntary migration
- 16. Multiple ChoiceA country has net 0ut-migration if emigrationexceeds immigrationequals immigrationis less than immigrationequals crude birth rate
- 17. Multiple ChoiceThe most important intervening obstacle preventing Eastern Europeans from leaving their homes between World War 2 and the 1990s wasthe Danube Riverthe Alpscommunist control of the regionlack of financial resources
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe Atlantic Ocean is an example ofan environmental push factoran intervening obstaclean environmental pull factoran economic factor
- 19. Multiple ChoiceMost migrants to the US from 1800-1850 came from this part of Europe.north and eastnorth and southnorth and westsouth and east
- 20. Multiple ChoiceAccording to the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act undocumented workersare immediately arrestedwere allowed to pursue citizenshipjailed if caught a third timeno longer able to go to public school
- 21. Multiple ChoiceGuest workers in Europe and the Middle East are low-status but legal residents.truefalse
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhat is an example of forced migration?Spanish moving to MexicoAfrican slaves brought to the Americas.Syrians moving to TurkeyAfrican Americans moving north at the end of the civil war
- 23. Multiple ChoiceMany guest workers go to the oil fields in Midland Texas.TrueFalse
- 24. Multiple ChoiceMany guest workers go to work in the oil field in SW Asia.truefalse
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWho is migratory over LONG distances?women with childrenyoung unmarried menold peopleyoung families
- 26. Multiple ChoiceWhich would not be an environmental pull factor?clear, dry air in Arizonalumberjack job in the Pacific Northwestbeautiful clear water by the beachRocky Mountain scenery
- 27. Multiple ChoiceIn the 1840's millions Irish migrated to the US because ofwidespread floodinga farming disaster that killed the potato cropEnglish government take overthe need for religious freedom
- 28. Multiple ChoiceThe main PUSH factor for a refugee iseconomicenvironmentalnatural disasterpolitical
- 29. Multiple ChoiceLarge scale migration from SE Asia to the US in the 1970's was because ofcommunist take over of Vietnamwar in Myanmarfloods in Cambodiacivil war in Laos
- 30. Multiple ChoiceMost voluntary migrants from Great Britian have gone toMexicoNorth AmericaAustraliacontinental Europe
- 31. Multiple ChoiceBrain drain iswhen you can't come up with the answer on a testemigration from MDCs to LDCsemigration of talented and smart peopleforcing emigration for political reasons
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