1. Human Geography: migration

2. Human Geography The study of people, their cultures, and their distribution across Earth’s surface. Source: Mastering the TEKS in World Geography

3. Student Expectations: (1)A History. trace characteristics of various contemporary societies in regions that resulted from historical events or factors such as invasion, conquests, colonization, immigration and trade; (4)C Geography explain ways in which human migration influences the character of places and regions.

4. Essential Question: What reasons cause people to migrate to different areas?

5. Migration The movement of people from one area to another. Generally refers to a permanent move by people to a new location. Source: Mastering the TEKS in World Geography

6. immigration Migration of people into a new country or area. Source: Mastering the TEKS in World Geography Yahoo Kids Dictionary

7. emigration Migration of people out of a country or area.

8. push factors Those events that push people to move out of their old location. Source: Mastering the TEKS in World Geography

9. pull factors The attractions that lure migrants to a new location. Source: Mastering the TEKS in World Geography

10. social factors How people organize into groups, such as religious groups. Source: Mastering the TEKS in World Geography To the Cornell NotesNotes

11. religious persecution Unfair treatment of an individual or group of people because of religious differences. Source: Our World Today

12. ethnic persecution Unfair or hateful treatment of a person or group of people because of racial, tribal, national, linguistic or cultural differences. Source: Mastering the TEKS in World Geography Yahoo Kids Dictionary

13. environmental factors Migration caused by seasons, or natural destruction by storms, volcanoes, earthquakes or human disasters like chemical or radiation pollution. Source: Mastering the TEKS in World Geography Yahoo Kids Dictionary

14. forced migration when groups of people are uprooted and forced to move out by another group of people. Source: Mastering the TEKS in World Geography

15. physical barriers Migrating people generally avoid natural barriers like mountains, deserts and dense forests. Source: Mastering the TEKS in World Geography World Population growth video linklink Yahoo Kids Dictionary

16. Sources New World Encyclopedia http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Civilization http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Civilization TEA VocabularyVocabulary Merriam-Webster Dictionary : http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary Yahoo Kids Dictionary http://kids.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/english/search?query=political+science http://kids.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/english/search?query=political+science Background Leather: Photoshop StarPhotoshop Star Woodlands Junior School http://www.woodlands- junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/religion/jewish.htm http://www.woodlands- junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/religion/jewish.htm