Lesson 2.2.2.1

2.2.2.1 What are the contemporary patterns of global migration? Quiz: OCR Geography, Unit 4

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The 20 questions

  1. What term describes movement of migrants between different major world regions?

    • Internal migration
    • Inter-regional migration
    • Intra-regional migration
    • Step migration

  2. What term describes the movement of migrants between countries within the same world region?

    • Inter-regional migration
    • Forced migration
    • Transcontinental migration
    • Intra-regional migration

  3. Which index measures a nation's overall health, education, and income performance?

    • Gross National Income
    • Human Development Index
    • Gender Inequality Index
    • Happy Planet Index

  4. What financial flows are sent by international migrants back to their home families?

    • Foreign direct investment
    • Capital flight
    • Official development aid
    • Migrant remittances

  5. How do the overall volume magnitudes of South-South and South-North migrant flows currently compare?

    • South-South is double
    • South-North is triple
    • South-North is double
    • They are equal

  6. Which demographic group has increasingly dominated young labour migration flows in recent decades?

    • Child dependents
    • Female migrants
    • Elderly relatives
    • Retired workers

  7. What term describes the mutual economic, social, and political reliance between two migrating nations?

    • Autarky
    • Sovereignty
    • Interdependence
    • Independence

  8. What term defines exclusive migration pathways connecting two specific countries?

    • Transitional pathways
    • Multilateral corridors
    • Bilateral corridors
    • Unilateral channels

  9. High levels of remittance transfers into low-income origin countries directly promote what?

    • Political instability
    • Social inequality
    • Brain drain
    • Economic growth

  10. Loss of highly skilled professionals from developing countries to wealthier nations creates what issue?

    • Counter-urbanisation
    • Depopulation
    • Brain drain
    • Brain gain

  11. Which factor is a major driver of the recent global increase in refugee numbers?

    • Ageing populations
    • Decreased travel costs
    • Conflict and persecution
    • Free trade agreements

  12. A country receiving skilled migrants to fill domestic labour shortages experiences which positive benefit?

    • Brain drain
    • Demographic decline
    • Remittance burden
    • Brain gain

  13. What type of migration flow involves displaced people fleeing across international borders for safety?

    • Voluntary migration
    • Forced migration
    • Return migration
    • Retirement migration

  14. Ideas, values, and social attitudes brought back by returning migrants are known as what?

    • Cultural assimilation
    • Capital investments
    • Social remittances
    • Financial remittances

  15. Which economic process has encouraged new migration origin source areas and host destinations worldwide?

    • Protectionism
    • Economic globalisation
    • De-globalisation
    • Isolationism

  16. A nation introducing strict border controls and quota limits is altering which type of policy?

    • Immigration policy
    • Monetary policy
    • Fiscal policy
    • Emigration policy

  17. When young working-age people leave an origin nation, what primary demographic issue can arise?

    • Overcrowding
    • Ageing population
    • High fertility rate
    • Youth bulge

  18. How can global migration help reduce political tension and promote stability between nations?

    • Border militarisation
    • Bilateral cooperation
    • Trade tariffs
    • Diplomatic isolation

  19. What can result when migrant workers face exploitation, low wages, and poor working conditions?

    • Social cohesion
    • Human rights injustices
    • Economic equality
    • Political stability

  20. A migrant moving from India to the UAE represents which type of spatial migration corridor?

    • South-South corridor
    • East-West corridor
    • North-South corridor
    • North-North corridor

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