I. Vocabulary: for Each of the Following Terms, Write a Definition and an Example

Chapter 3.3-4 Reading Guide I. Vocabulary: For each of the following terms, write a definition and an example. quotas urbanization population center brain drain suburbanization guest workers counterurbanization

II. Short Answer: Answer the following questions after you have completed the required reading. (Questions adapted from https://sites.google.com/site/katzongeographynow/home/ap-human-geography-reading-guides)

1. Identify and explain two obstacles that migrants face when immigrating to a country. Use a real life example to support your answer.

2. What did the Quota Act (1921) and the National Origins Act (1924) do? How did they favor immigration from certain regions?

3. Annotate the maps to the right with information on “Temporary Migration for Work” and “time-Contract Workers.”

4. Compare and contrast notes on immigration to the USA using the three case studies of Cuba, Haiti and Vietnam.

5. Carefully read the section on Cultural Challenges Faced While Living in Other Countries and complete a Venn diagram below to compare and contrast attitudes in the US and Europe toward immigrants. US Both Europe 6. What was the first “intervening obstacle” which hindered American settlement of the interior of the continent?

7. What developments in transportation eventually encouraged settlement to the Mississippi?

8. Why was settlement of the Great Plains slow to come, with settlers passing it by for California and the west coast?

9. How did the railroads encourage settlement of the American interior?

10. For what two reasons have people been migrating to the South in recent years?

11. Calculate the net growth (or loss) of US regions and place the appropriate number in each of the corresponding areas of the map (to the right) for both 1995 and 2007.

12. Make appropriate notes in tables below on five specific cases of interregional migration.

Where? Why How? Russia

Brazil

Indonesia

Europe

13. Define/describe each of the following terms, and summarize an important fact about its US occurrence. Urbanization Suburbanization Counterurbanization Definition Significant Facts in the US