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Multiple choice geography world population migration and its effects no place for us? migration : factors, types and consequences

Migration in which people tend to move due to some push factors such as war, hunger and other difficult conditions ___________.

  1. Rural-Urban Migration

  2. Seasonal Migration

  3. Impelled Migration

  4. Involuntary Migration
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Here, no one is forced to migrate but due to some push factors such as war, hunger and other difficult conditions, people decide to leave.

Multiple choice geography world population migration and its effects no place for us? migration : factors, types and consequences

Migration in which the government or authorities of a place force people to migrate for a reason is called __________.

  1. Return Migration

  2. Rural-Urban Migration

  3. Seasonal Migration

  4. Involuntary Migration
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This happens when the government or authorities of a place force people to migrate for a reason. It refers to the movements of refugees and internally displaced people (those displaced by conflicts) as well as people displaced by natural or environmental disasters, chemical or nuclear disasters, famine, or development projects.

Multiple choice geography world population migration and its effects no place for us? migration : factors, types and consequences

Movement of people from one place to another with the intentions of settling permanently in the new location is called ________.

  1. Migration

  2. Transfer

  3. Movement

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Human migration is the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently in the new location. The movement is often over long distances and from one country to another, but internal migration is also possible; indeed, this is the dominant form globally. 

Multiple choice geography world population migration and its effects no place for us? migration : factors, types and consequences

Which of the following statements are true?

A. Migration is the consequence of the economic and political problems facing the countries where migrant come from.

B. These migrants are starting to cause political problems for their countries, the recipient countries and the countries they take as a transit.

  1. Only A

  2. Only B

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Movement of people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently in the new location is called human migration. Migration is due to the consequences faced by people of the country, making them settle in other country. These migrants become reason for political disturbances in the country they settle, because nativists of the country usually do not accept the migrants. 

Multiple choice geography world population migration and its effects no place for us? migration : factors, types and consequences

What is migration?

  1. Shifting from one city to other

  2. Traveling from one city to other

  3. Both of above

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Shifting from one city to other is called migration. Normally people migrate for education, earning. In some cases people transferred from one city to other from there office it is also comes under migration. 

Multiple choice geography world population migration and its effects no place for us? migration : factors, types and consequences

Why people migrate from one city to other?

  1. For good living standards

  2. For education purpose

  3. For employment reason

  4. All of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Normally no one prefer to migrate from their home town to new city. But for good living standards, for good education purpose or for employment they migrate to another city.

Multiple choice geography the earth and the graticule general idea about earth space around the earth is the earth round?

Choose the correct option to complete the statements given below: 
The globe and the earth are different in _______.

  1. shape

  2. size

  3. continents and oceans

  4. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A globe is a miniature form of the earth, which represents distances, directions, continents, oceans, countries, etc. A globe is often misconstrued with a map, which diagrammatically represents the earth's surface or a part thereof, based on scale.

Multiple choice geography the earth and the graticule general idea about earth space around the earth is the earth round?

State whether these sentences are true or false
The earth rotates from west to east.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

True.
Earth rotates eastward, in prograde motion. As viewed from the north pole star Polaris, Earth turns anticlockwise. The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.

Multiple choice geography the earth and the graticule general idea about earth space around the earth is the earth round?

State whether these sentences are true or false.
The axis of the earth is not actually tilted as depicted in a globe. 

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

False.
The axis of rotation of the Earth is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees away from vertical, perpendicular to the plane of our planet's orbit around the sun. The tilt of the Earth's axis is important, in that it governs the warming strength of the sun's energy.