Human Migration quiz

More questions about Human Migration

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1. 1 Easy

   What is the largest annual human migration on Earth called?

   Answer: Chunyun

   Why: The forty-day travel rush around the lunar new year moves billions of trips across the country.

2. 2 Medium

   What is a neighborhood full of immigrant shops and culture called?

   Answer: Ethnic enclave

   Why: Chinese hui and Korean kye are rotating credit clubs that have helped immigrants finance small businesses.

3. 3 Hard

   According to Ravenstein's Laws, most migrants move what kind of distance?

   Answer: Short distances

   Why: He also found that each stream produces a counter-stream flowing the other way.

4. 4 Easy

   What did Everett Lee call migration barriers like mountains or borders?

   Answer: Intervening obstacles

   Why: He put them between origin and destination, alongside the factors at each end and the mover’s own circumstances.

5. 5 Medium

   Which migration involves moving from a village to a town, then city?

   Answer: Step migration

   Why: Ravenstein put this in his 1885 laws: those who leave a village are replaced by migrants from ever more remote districts.

6. 6 Hard

   Which post-WWII German program recruited millions of foreign migrant workers?

   Answer: Gastarbeiter

   Why: The first treaty went to Italy in 1955, and about 870,000 workers came from Turkey before the 1973 hiring stop.