Geography Time

Meet the Teams Push Factors Pull Factors

Rules Team 1 goes first. Then Team 2. Fill out your study guide as we go.

How to Score Points 1 point: closest line of black tape. 2 points: halfway back 3 points: furthest line of black tape 4 points: your back touching the back wall.

How to Lose Points -1 Points: Hit the Promethean Board -4 Points: Block or disrupt a shot

Question What is migration?

Answer The movement of people

Question What is urbanization?

Answer People moving from countryside to city

Question What are remittances?

Answer When a worker sends money to their family in another country

Question What is a push factor?

Answer A reason for leaving a country (pushes out)

Question What is a pull factor?

Answer Reason for coming to a country (pulls in)

Question What is voluntary migration?

Answer A person moves because they want to move The pull factor is important Job opportunities, family, better education, etc.

Question What is reluctant migration?

Answer A person decides to move, even though they don’t want to move. The push factor is the most important. Natural disasters, wars, famine, etc.

Question What is forced migration?

Answer A person is forced to move. Examples: Slavery, Native Americans on Reservations, Jews in Concentration Camps

Question What is a refugee?

Answer A reluctant immigrant. Someone who decided to leave their home because conditions were so bad. Survivors of a civil war or natural disaster

Question What is immigration?

Answer People moving INTO a country

Question What is a natural resource?

Answer Something useful taken from the environment.

Question What is a raw material?

Answer A natural resource in its natural state, before it is turned into a manufactured good.

Question What is a recyclable resource?

Answer A resource that is naturally recycled by a process in nature. Water, carbon-dioxide, oxygen

Question What is a renewable resource?

Answer A resource that humans can replace once they take it from nature Wind power, solar power, hydro power Crops, and wood, etc.

Question What is a nonrenewable resource?

Answer A resource that humans cannot replace once they take it from nature. Fossil fuels metals

Question What is a fossil fuel?

Answer An energy source made from the fossilizing material of dead plants. Coal Oil Peat Natural Gas

Question What is a Developed Nation?

Answer A nation that is rich and technologically advanced.

Question What is a developing nation?

Answer A nation that is trying to catch up with Developed Nations in money and technology.

Question What is Human-Environment Interaction?

Answer When humans change the physical world around them to meet their needs. Farming, mining, building a dam, building a city, pollution, etc.

Question Push Factor Examples

Answer Natural disaster War Famine Disease Lack of opportunity No Jobs Religious persecution

Question Pull Factor examples

Answer Family in another country Good jobs Available Land Religious Freedom Peace and Safety Good Education

Question Developed Nation Characteristics

Answer Highly Educated Workers Well-off Citizens Strong Business Factories have been around for a long time Most jobs are based on service Big, well-developed cities Population decline

Question Developing Nation Characteristics

Answer Lack of Education Lack of Public Services (sewer systems, drinking water, garbage collection) Growing family size and population Growing factories Growing cities Widespread poverty

Question Three kinds of Migration

Answer Voluntary (immigrants) Reluctant (refugees) Forced (slaves)

Question Effects of Urbanization

Answer Large Slums (poor housing conditions) Lack of services (clean drinking water, electricity, garbage collection, transporation) Rising poverty rates Lack of resources (not enough food)

Question Examples of Reluctant Migration

Answer Natural Disaster Civil War Famine

Question Difference between Natural Resource and Raw Material

Answer Natural Resource: Something useful take from the environment Raw Material: A natural resource that will be turned into a product (manufactured good)

Question Difference between Renewable Resource and Recyclable Resource

Answer Renewable: Humans can replace it after they take it from the environment (ex: grow more corn) Recyclable Resource: Goes through natural cycle to be renewed (drinking water, waste water, river water, ocean, rain, repeat)

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Question Fossil Fuel Examples

Answer Coal Peat Natural Gas Oil

Question Examples of a raw material in a product A basketball shoe…

Answer Cotton Leather Oil

Question Examples of Human-Environment Interaction

Answer Building a city Deforestation Desertification Farming Building a new dam Irrigation

Question Effects of human population growth on the environment

Answer Air pollution Water pollution Oil Spills Decreasing amounts of available fresh water

Question Cause of rapid rise in human population over the last 200 years

Answer More infants survive into adulthood and have families of their own. Better food supply Better medical care High standard of living

Question Theme II: Place Examples that describe a “place?” Must answer the question: What is the location like?