Migration

Q. How do you define backwash effect?

1. The country from which the people emigrate which loses skilled people is known as backwash effect.
2. The country from which the people immigrate which gains skilled people is known as backwash effect.
3. The country from which the people emigrate which gains skilled people is known as backwash effect.
4. The country from which the people immigrate loses skilled people is known as backwash effect.

Q. _____ is the movement of people in and out of an area.

1. Development
2. Settlement
3. Travelling
4. Migration

Q. Which of the following can be considered as push factors of migration?

1. Climate change in a certain region
2. Superior educational and job opportunities
3. Lack of job opportunities in the region
4. Unstable governments and widespread conflict

Q. Which of the following are the negative effects of the Brain Drain?

1. Knowledge is acquired by the migrants.
2. Money sent back by migrants to their home country helps the economy of that country.
3. The migrants become valuable skilled human resources for other countries rather than their own countries.
4. There is a shortage of skilled people in the place of origin of the migration.

Q. and are the two main types of factors that cause migration.

1. Push
2. Pull
3. Forward
4. Backward

Q. Which of the following can be considered as pull factors?

1. Better job opportunities in the region
2. Better educational facilities in the region
3. Unstable government conflicts like wars
4. Lack of housing facilities in the region

Q. The act of leaving a country is known as .

1. emigration
2. immigration
3. in-migration

Q. The act of leaving a country is called _____.

1. emigration
2. immigration
3. refugee
4. displacement

Q. What is Brain drain? What are its push and pull factors?

Q. The act of leaving a country is called _____.

1. emigration
2. immigration
3. refugee
4. displacement

Q. Immigration is also known as _____ migration.

1. out
2. backward
3. in
4. forward

Q. Emigration is also known as _____ migration.

1. in
2. out
3. forward
4. backward