Ap Human Geography Chapter 3 Summary

Chapter 3: Outline 1. What is MIGRATION? * Migration is inherently geographical. a) Cyclic Movement- involves journeys that begin at our home base and bring us back to it. * Commuting the journey from home to work and again takes from minutes to hours and can involves several modes of transportation. * Seasonal Movement – every autumn hundreds of thousands of travelers leave their home in Canada and the northern parts of the United States. a) It has huge economic consequences in depopulated northern towns. 3. Nomadism- is a matter of survival, culture, and tradition.
a) It takes place alone lone- familiar routes repeated time. b) Periodic Movement- involves returning
p) Are places within a region or country where most foreign investment goes, where the vast majority of paying jobs are located, and where infrastructure is concentrated. m) Conflict and War: * As many as 15 million Germans migrated westward from their homes in Eastern Europe, either voluntarily or because they were forced to leave. * National migration flows can also be thought of as internal migration flows. q) Two of the major migration flows before 1950 occurred internally that is within a single country. r) In the United States a massive migration stream carried the center of population west. n) Where do people migrate from? * About 5 percent of the world’s people are international migrants. * The United States includes about 25 million people born in other countries. * About 65 million people have migrated to the US since 1820, including the 25 million alive today. * Since 1990’s women now constitute 54 percent of US immigrants and more children come with their