Ap Human Geography Chapter 6 Vocabulary

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A compass directionsuch as north or south.

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Absolute Direction

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The physical distance between two points usually measured in miles or kilometers.

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Absolute Distance

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The space within which daily activity occurs.

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Activity (action) space

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A trip of several hours usually suburb-to-city or vice versa; a form of cyclic movement.

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Commuting

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The moving back of an emigrated person to their home country.

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Counter Migration

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Movement that has a closed route repeated annually or seasonally.

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Cyclic Movement

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The various degenerative effects of distance on human spatial structures and interactions.

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Distance Decay

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The process of migratin away from a country or area; an out-migration.

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Emigration

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Migration across an international border.

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External Migration

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Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate.

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Forced Migration

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A mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction being a function of populatio size of the respective places and the distance between them.

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Gravity Model

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Migration flow within a nation-state, such as ongoing westward and southward movements in the United States.

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Internal Migration

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Refugees who have crossed one or more international boundaries during their dislocation and who now find themselves encamped in a different country.

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International Refugees

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The movement of a people or person insode their home area without crossing their national boundary line.

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Interregional Migration

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The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes thattractiveness of sites farther away.

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Intervening Opportunity

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Refugees who have abandoned their town or village but not their country.

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Intranational refugees

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A change in residence inteded to be permanent.

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Migration

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Movement among a definite set of places; often cyclical movement; Nomadic peoples mostly are Pastoralists.

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Nomadism

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Refugees who have been substantially integrated into the host country or host region and who are thus seen as long-term visitors.

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Permanent Refugees

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Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas.

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Pull factors

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Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and migrate to a new locale.

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Push Factors

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People who have been dislocated involuntarily from their original place of settlement.

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Refugees

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Distance measured, not in linear terms such as miles or kilometers, but in terms such as cost and time.

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Relative Distance

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Migration of a people or group at the changes of season (s) ("Snowbirds")

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Seasonal Movement

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System used for cheap labor that was completely unjust in the rapidly-industrializing United States and Eurpean-Western world.

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Slave Trade

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Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to town and city.

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Step Migration

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Refugees encamped in a host country or host region while waiting for resettlement.

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Temporary Refugees

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Population movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not becasue they are forced to move.

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Voluntary Migration