Ch. 3 Migration –QUIZ #1

  1. In the social application of the gravity model, distance is usually measured by:

a.linear miles

b.number of telephones

c.mass of an object

d.intervening opportunities

e.travel time or cost

  1. The extent of individual activity space depends on all of the following except:
  1. means of mobility
  2. occupation and vocation
  3. stage in the life course
  4. strength of territoriality
  5. level of education
  1. The personal communication field of an individual is:
  1. related to age, sex, education, type and place of employment, and income
  2. a function of his or her access to radio or newspapers
  3. controlled by the efficiency with which the gossip function is performed
  4. the result of availability of transistor radios and television receivers
  5. is determined by the cost of newspapers, magazines, and cable television
  1. Ones willingness to defend their home ground is called:
  1. neighborhood watch
  2. defense mechanism
  3. reflexive response
  4. fight or flight impulse
  5. territoriality
  1. An individual’s zone of daily movement is known as that person’s:
  1. activity space
  2. push factor
  3. territoriality
  4. amenity
  5. space-time prism
  1. An individual’s activity space is primarily affected by:
  1. age, mobility, and opportunity
  2. income, sex, and ethnicity
  3. health, education, and employment
  4. politics, religion, and nationality
  5. complimentarity, transferability, and intervening opportunity
  1. According to the Gravity Model, what 2 factors most determine spatial interaction of 2 places?
  1. size and distance
  2. space and time
  3. time and cost
  4. time and means of transportation
  5. distance and means of transportation
  1. In the majority of societies, the most mobile segment of the population is:
  1. retirees
  2. teenagers
  3. the middle aged
  4. young adults
  5. women
  1. Distance decay implies that
  1. long distances erode the space-time prism
  2. long distances make the heart grow fonder
  3. short distances constrict the space-time prism
  4. short-distance contacts are more likely than long-distance contacts
  5. long-distance contacts are independent of transferability
  1. A country has net in-migration if emigration ______immigration.
  1. equals
  2. exceeds
  3. is closer to net migration than
  4. is less than
  5. varies more than
  1. All of the following are included in Ravenstein’s laws of migration EXCEPT:
  1. most migration proceeds step-by-step
  2. most migrants only go short distances
  3. most migration is urban to rural
  4. most migrants are adults
  5. most international migrants are young males
  1. Which of the following is NOT an example of relocation diffusion?
  1. The spread of Islam across Northern Africa and Southwest Asia.
  2. The spread of the English language to the British Colonies.
  3. The spread of Mexican cuisine to the United States.
  4. The spread of Roman Catholicism to Latin America.
  5. The spread of blues and jazz music to northern cities in the United States
  1. The movement of black Americans from the rural south to the cities of the northern U.S. is an example of which kind of diffusion:
  1. permeable
  2. contagious
  3. expansion
  4. relocation
  5. stimulus
  1. Hierarchical diffusion is
  1. the rapid and widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
  2. the spread of an underlying principle or idea to people of importance
  3. the spread of an idea from persons of power to other persons of lesser importance
  4. the spread of an idea or trait through the physical movement of people from one place to another
  5. the uniform spread of information throughout the world wide web
  1. In recent decades, all of the following have played a major role in the rapid growth of Sun Belt cities of the United States EXCEPT:
  1. immigration from Latin America
  2. lower property and business taxes
  3. cheap land and labor
  4. climatic changes leading to colder northern winters
  5. the increasing demand for retirement and resort centers
  1. One of the most damaging results of migration selectivity is “brain drain”. This refers to:
  1. the process by which people are given preference for migration
  2. people forced to migrate for political reasons
  3. a cultural feature that hinders migration
  4. the emotional stress put on people when migrating
  5. the large-scale emigration of talented people

TRUE or FALSE: In the blank clearly mark T or F for each statement. For one extra credit point per question, rewrite the FALSE statements making them into true statements.

  1. According to the distance decay model, the greater the distance between two places, the greater the interaction between those two places will be.
  1. As compared to Mexican immigrants, Cuban immigrants have a strong counterstream to their place of origin; therefore very little internal population redistribution occurs.
  1. According to the Gravity Model, as the population of the place of origin and/or the place of destination increases, the interaction between the two places increases.
  1. One of the strongest predictors of migration in the future is whether people have moved in the past, for this reason the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are considered high-immigrant countries.
  1. Because the United States has an aging population, and has become a nation of homeowners since World War II, mobility rates in the United States have drastically increased.
  1. The region of the United States with the lowest rate of geographic mobility is North East.
  1. The general migration pattern in the U.S. over the past several decades has been from the Frostbelt to the Sunbelt.
  1. The largest migration stream in the United States connects New York and California.
  1. The states experiencing the most out-migration as of 1998-99 were Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado.