What is emigration?

• A. The act of leaving one's country to permanently live in another.
• B. The process of moving to a new city within the same country.
• C. The study of how places are formed.
• D. The analysis of weather patterns in a region.

Answer: (A)

Emigration is the act of leaving one's country to permanently live in another. It focuses on international movement with the intent to settle abroad, not just relocating within the same country. Moving to a different city inside the same country is internal migration, which is a different idea. The other options describe different topics altogether—one is about how places are formed, and the other about weather patterns. For example, when people left Ireland in the 1800s to start a new life in the United States, that was emigration.