D199 - Human Geography

Scheduled maintenance: 13 January 2026 from 09:00 to 11:00 D199 - Human Geography Leave the first rating Students also studied Terms in this set (97) Save Important airport names 30 terms Justin_ShadlePreview geography final flash cards 59 terms kj0300Preview Judaism 14 terms grace_ohoraPreview AP Hum 30 terms orla Practice questions for this set Learn1 / 7Study using Learn benefits a receiving country experiences when highly skilled immigrants are lured away from their country of origin when they accept higher-paying opportunities immigrantspeople moving INTO a geographical area. (IM = INTO) emigrantspeople moving OUT OF a geographical area. (EM = OUT OF) net migrationthe difference between the amount of people immigrating or emigrating to or from countries.Choose an answer 1brain gain2immigrants 3business-as-usual emissions trajectory4travel visas Don't know?

return migrationthe permanent return of emigrants to their country of origin.travel visasdocuments that give temporary permission to enter a country.brain draina wealthy country's recruiting the "best brains" from a poorer country by offering higher-paying opportunities brain wastea phenomenon in which international migrants higher levels of education such as a college degree are not honored by employers because the government doesn't accredit institutions outside of its own country brain gainbenefits a receiving country experiences when highly skilled immigrants are lured away from their country of origin when they accept higher-paying opportunities push factorsconditions that encourage a person to migrate FROM its location. examples include famine, war, economic issues, political or religious persecution, etc.pull factorsthings that attract a person to migrate TO a country. examples include employment opportunities.main push factors for labor migration from Romania, Spain, and Italy, and Bulgaria.unemployment, living expenses, and salary dissatisfaction main pull factors for labor migration from Romania, Spain, Italy, and Bulgaria.greater employment opportunities found abroad in other countries. better political and government systems that are more attractive to them.labor migrationthe movement of people from one country to another for employment business-as-usual emissions trajectorya climate change projection that assumes little or nothing will by done by people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; measured by RCP 2.6, 4.5, 6.0, and 8.5. RCP 8.5 is the worst case scenario.Neo-Malthusian modelA theory that holds that human population growth poses a danger if not controlled agencyability of a person to make independent decisions and carry them out desertificationthe conversation of normal land to desert, especially in semiarid areas forced migrationmovement of refugees from one area to another who did not choose to leave their homes and whose migration is the result of political pressures, conflict, or threats to their physical life and security voluntary migrationmovement from one area or country to another by people who made independent choices to leave their homes involuntary migrationmovement from an area to another by people who have no realistic choice but to move because they are compelled by the government or external pressure or under their own volition to escape their daily lives due to political, social, economic, or environmental impacts

asylum-seekeran international forced migrant who is seeking permanent residence another country after fleeing from their own country refugeean international migrant who is offered protection by another country after seeking refugee status under the terms outlined in the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and its 1967 additional Protocol.internationally displaced personsomeone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders secondary migrationa movement by refugees who have already completed one migration, who are going to complete another one due to conflict in the country they just migrated into Population displacementoccurs when the dominant group displaces or removes the minority group either voluntarily or involuntarily (ex: military attacks on civilians, homicides, kidnappings, eviction notices, etc) accommodationistsnative Americans tribes who decided to accept the new economic, political, and society of the United States traditionalistsNative American tribes who decided not to accept the new economic, political, and society of the United States, and instead, keep to their current political, societal, and religious standards Indian Removal Act1830 law authorizing the U. S. president to negotiate with Native American tribes to remove them to new lands in the west in exchange for their ancestral lands Treaty of New Echotatreaty that ceded Cherokee land to the federal government under false pretenses Holocene Epocha period of warm, stable climate starting about 11,700 years ago, allowing for the Agricultural Revolution Great Accelerationperiod of accelerating use of fossil fuels, starting in about 1950 Anthropocene Epocha proposed new geological period (replacing the Holocene Epoch) that reflects the widespread evidence of human impacts on the environment "the age of humans." photosynthesisthe process whereby plants convert solar energy into energy needed to live and grow; this process uses carbon dioxide and releases oxygen into the atmosphere aquifersnatural underground water reservoirs climate changeas distinct from changes in the weather over the short term, a change in the weather over a long term, lasting decades and possibly even centuries global warminga trend predicted by scientists, incorporating planet-wide increases of temperature of air, land, and water

anthropogenichuman-caused black carbonsolid carbon particles of soot released from internal combustion engines, coal, firewood, crop residues, and animal dung sequesterationthe process of capturing and holding; in reference to carbon sequesteration, the ability of plants and soils to "capture" carbon atoms and keep them out of the atmosphere cap-and-tradea program designed to manage carbon dioxide emissions by either limiting a company's total emissions to a level allowed by its permit, paying a tax for any overage, or purchasing other companies' permits to cover its own overage of emissions nonmarket goodsitems that are not sold or traded for money contingent valuationa method used to assign monetary values to nonmarket goods based on surveys SLCPsshort-lived climate pollutants that disperse more heat in the atmosphere; examples are black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons spatial datadata that can be linked to a specific location on earth.non-spatial datadata that cannot be linked to a specific location on earth.global positioning system (GPS)a technology that collects information about the position of an object on earth using several satellites and triangulation means triangulationa mathematical process to measure the location of a gps receiver on earth, by using multiple satellites or known points.geographic information system (GIS)a technology that combines remote sensing, gps data, spatial and non-spatial data, to perform powerful anylysis of earth ecosystemall the biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components in a particular location stable statea condition of temporary balance and stability in an ecosytem tipping pointa limit to the amount of change or disruption to an ecosystem while it can still maintain its current state food chainmovement of energy through nutrients in an ecosystem, from solar energy to apex predators, the highest species in the network trophic structurescientific term for "food chain", including the idea of producers, two levels of consumers, and decomposers producergreen plants that convert solar energy into food