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movement vocab
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Migration | movement from one part of something to another. |
Transportation | the action of transporting someone or something or the process of being transported. |
Transportation Infrastructure | the road and rail networks we depend on. |
Communications Infastructure | postal service,telephone, mobile phone, TV, radio, cable TV, internet, communications satellites, undersea cable. |
Pull Factors | something concerning the country to which a person migrates. |
Push Factors | a flaw or distress that drives a person away from a certain place. |
Space Time Compression | any phenomenon that alters the qualities of and relationship between space and time. |
Distance Decay | a geographical term which describes the effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions. |
Immaigration | the movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native in order to settle there,especially as permanent residents or future citizens. |
Emigration | the act of leaving one's country or region with the intent to settle permanently in another. |
Intervening Opportunities | the number of persons going a given distance is directly proportional to the number of opportunities at that distance and inversely proportional to the number of intervening opportunities. |
Intervening Obstacles | an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. |
Technology | machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge. |