Migration, Movement & Urban Growth
How and why people move: migration, push and pull factors, commuting, urbanization, sprawl, and the rise of the megacity.
- Difficulty:
- medium
- Questions:
- 11
Questions in this quiz
Q1. What is migration?
- • The growth of coral reefs
- • The formation of volcanoes
- • Movement of people from one place to another
- • A change in map projection
Q2. What is emigration?
- • Being born in a city
- • Leaving a country or region to live elsewhere
- • Entering a country to live there
- • Counting the population
Q3. What is immigration?
- • Leaving a country only
- • Entering a country or region to live there
- • Moving water through a canal
- • Increasing a city’s elevation
Q4. What is a push factor in migration?
- • A type of urban park
- • A map symbol for mountains
- • A reason people leave a place
- • A reason people arrive at a place
Q5. What is a pull factor in migration?
- • A reason people leave a place
- • A reason people are attracted to a place
- • A river that erodes a bank
- • A tax on city land
Q6. What is a commuter?
- • Someone who regularly travels between home and work or school
- • Someone who maps ocean currents
- • Someone who studies volcanoes
- • Someone who lives only in a capital city
Q7. Which term describes the share of people living in cities?
- • Urbanization rate
- • Albedo
- • Drainage density
- • Contour interval
Q8. Which term means people moving from rural areas to cities?
- • Subduction
- • Erosion
- • Urbanization
- • Deforestation
Q9. What is a megacity?
- • A city below sea level
- • A city on an island
- • A capital city only
- • A city with more than 10 million people
Q10. What is suburbanization?
- • Growth of residential areas outside a central city
- • The formation of mountains
- • Migration only between countries
- • The drying of a lake
Q11. Which term describes the physical spread of cities into surrounding rural land?
- • Condensation
- • Glaciation
- • Plate tectonics
- • Urban sprawl