Definitions
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Migration Type
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People forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster.

What is a refugee?

100

A sneaky way to enslave someone without calling it "slavery".

Indentured Labor

100

Also known as involuntary migration and slavery.

What is Forced Migration.

100

What is a region?  

A region is an area of land that has common features.

100
The place from where the largest number of people migrate to Canada.
What is Europe?
200
Forces which encourage people to move.
What is Push Factor?
200

Where a nation of people moves to______________.

Migration Field

200

Also known as cyclical migration...when people migrate by going back and forth, usually for agricultural work.

Seasonal Migration

200

True or False...

A region can be defined by natural or artificial features.

True

200
An effecient mode of transportation to move people and huge loads long distances.
What is a train?
300

Something that encourages people to leave a country or place.

What is pull factor?

300

A large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have since moved out to places all over the world.

Diaspora

300

When a person or people go back to stay in their country of origin.

Return Migration

300

What are the three types of regions?

Formal, Functional & Perceptual

300
Today, most Canadian rail traffic is freight, not passenger trains. Our large cities use this to move millions of people daily over short distances.
What is a subway?
400

Things that make it difficult to move.

What are barriers?

400

When 1 person migrates then others join by migrating into their existing network.

Chain Migration

400

When people move within the same country.

Internal Migration.

400

What is "Place" in Geography?

The physical and human characteristics of a location.

400
A form of transportation that has the ability to move great quantities long distances at a low cost. This makes them the cheapest way to move items like cars, wheat or iron across the world.
What is ships?
500

A mixture of ethnic groups formed during the European Colonial era. (European/Black)

What is creole?

500

Pull and Push Factor are examples of _____________ migration?

Economic Migration.

500

Rural--->Regional City--->Big City--->International

The above is an example of___________________.

Step Migration

500

Give an example of physical characteristics of place.

Give an example of human characteristics of place.

Example: landforms, bodies of water, soil, animals

Example: human ideas and actions.

500

Physical, financial, legal, and emotional barriers.

What is a factor that affects movement?

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