Population Power
What was MS least populated county?
What is Issaquena County?
Why do we call people moving out of an area?
What is Out-Migration?
What do we call places with 2,500 or more people?
What is Urban?
What Native American group is highlighted in the chapter?
What is Choctaw?
What is a group that shares common traditions and feelings of belonging?
What is Ethnic group.
What does CBD stand for?
What is Central Business District?
How many counties does MS have?
What is 82
What is the difference between people entering and leaving an area called?
What is Net migration?
What is the outward spread of urban development?
Why is Urban Sprawl?
Chinese immigrants began coming to what Mississippi region around 1870?
What is the Delta?
What industry employed many Vietnamese immigrants along the Gulf Coast?
What is Seafood industry?
What three factors determine population growth or decline?
What are births, deaths, and migration?
Name MS populous county?
What is Hinds county?
What do we call people moving into an area?
What is in-migration?
What do we call communities with fewer than, 2500 people?
What is rural?
What is the official name of the Choctaw group discussed?
What is Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians?
Name three employment opportunities associated with Hispanic/Latino Mississippians in the chapter.
What is Poultry processing, construction, and casinos?
What is considered the “heart” of a city?
What is Central Business District?
What was MS population in 2000?
What is 2,844,658?
What MS region experienced large population losses?
What is the Delta?
What is a suburban center containing businesses, offices, schools, and other economic activities?
What is Edge City?
Many Hispanic/Latino Mississippians described in the textbook were of what descent?
What is Mexican descent?
What type of stores did many Chinese Mississippians operate?
What is Grocery stores?
Name the two mini population concentration areas.
What is McComb-Brookhaven and Natchez?
Name MS 2 major population concentration areas.
What is Jackson Metro and the Gulfcoast?
A factory closes and workers leave the tea looking for employment. Is the factory closing a push factor or pull factor?
What is Push factor?
What is the area beyond a city's limits and suburbs that is still influenced by the city? Answer: Hinterland.
What is Hinterland?
Many Vietnamese immigrants settled in what Mississippi region?
What is the Gulfcoast?
What farming change reduced the need for agricultural workers and contributed to African American migration?
What is Mechanization?
Name all five minor population concentration areas from the chapter.
What is Tupelo/Golden Triangle, Hattiesburg/Laurel, Memphis Sphere, Delta, and Meridian?
Name Mississippi's two major population concentration areas.
What is Jackson Metro and Gulf Coast?
Many people left the Delta seeking what?
What is jobs?
What is the area beyond a city's limits and suburbs that is still influenced by the city?
What is Hinterland?
Where did many Vietnamese immigrants settle?
What is the Gulf Coast?
Many Hispanic/Latino Mississippians described by the textbook were of what descent?
What is Mexican descent?
What were Mississippi's two mini population concentration areas?
What is McComb-Brookhaven and Natchez?
Name the five minor population concentration areas.
What is Tupelo/Golden Triangle, Hattiesburg/Laurel, Memphis Sphere, Delta, and Meridian?
A factory closes in one county while a new factory opens in another. Identify the push factor AND the pull factor.
What is Push—loss of jobs; Pull—new job opportunities?
Put these in order moving outward from the center: suburbs, hinterland, city.
What is City → Suburbs → Hinterland?
What industry employed many Vietnamese immigrants along the Gulf Coast?
What is Seafood industry?
Name three employment areas associated with Hispanic/Latino Mississippians in the chapter.
What is Poultry processing, construction, and casinos?
Explain the difference among population, population distribution, and population concentration.
What is Population = how many people live in an area; population distribution = where people live; population concentration = where many people are grouped together?