Exam 3: Migration

Commuters in Washington,DC may travel up to _____ miles each way to work daily.

All of the following stimulated migration: Hurricane Katrina,the eruption of Soufriere Hills Volcano,and the Irish famine of the 1840's.

All of the following are examples of periodic movements except

Australia prohibited immigration by non-whites until the 1970's.

The smallest number of slaves involved in the Atlantic slave trade was sent to

Transhumance movement usually occurs in urban areas.

Which is not an example of a fortified barrier to migration?

Internal migration of Huichol Indians to northern Mexican agricultural regions is a recent development in Mexico's internal migration pattern.

Irish migration to North America in the mid-1800s is an example of

A common form of periodic movement involving several million Americans is

The Afghan Taliban (Islamic fundamentalists)movement,spawned in Pakistan,created a counter migration of 2.5 million Afghanis to ________ when they came to power.

Recently,the country with the greatest number of IDP's in the western hemisphere was

As a result of the Atlantic Slave Trade from 1702-1810,most African slaves ended up in North America.

Define cyclic movement and periodic movement.Give examples (perhaps,from your own experience)of each.Describe your own activity space.

The "Lost Boys" were refugees from which country?

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:

The intervention of what country in the civil war beginning in 1979 in Afghanistan caused great numbers of refugees to leave the country?

There are between 50,000 and 80,000 refugees that have fled from _______to Lebanon since 2011.

In recent decades,major internal migrations in the United States are toward the Sunbelt and western states.

In the United States during the late twentieth century,internal migration streams were moving people from