World Geography Trivia

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

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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