Geography Time

Meet the Teams

Pull Factors

Push 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

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• What is migration?

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• The movement of people

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• What is urbanization?

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• People moving from countryside to city

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• What are remittances?

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

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• What is a push factor?

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• A reason for leaving a country • (pushes out)

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• What is a pull factor?

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• Reason for coming to a country• (pulls in)

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• What is voluntary migration?

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

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• What is reluctant migration?

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• 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.

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• What is forced migration?

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

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• What is a refugee?

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

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• What is immigration?

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• People moving INTO a country

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• What is a natural resource?

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• Something useful taken from the environment.

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• What is a raw material?

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

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• What is a recyclable resource?

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

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• What is a renewable resource?

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

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• What is a nonrenewable resource?

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

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• What is a fossil fuel?

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

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• What is a Developed Nation?

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• A nation that is rich and technologically advanced.

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• What is a developing nation?

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

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What is Human-Environment Interaction?

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

pollution, etc.

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• Push Factor Examples

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

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• Pull Factor examples

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

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• Developed Nation Characteristics

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• 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

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• Developing Nation Characteristics

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• Lack of Education• Lack of Public Services (sewer systems,

drinking water, garbage collection)• Growing family size and population• Growing factories• Growing cities• Widespread poverty

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• Three kinds of Migration

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

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• Effects of Urbanization

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• Large Slums (poor housing conditions)• Lack of services (clean drinking water,

electricity, garbage collection, transporation)• Rising poverty rates• Lack of resources (not enough food)

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• Examples of Reluctant Migration

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• Natural Disaster• Civil War• Famine

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• Difference between Natural Resource and Raw Material

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• Natural Resource: Something useful take from the environment

• Raw Material: A natural resource that will be turned into a product (manufactured good)

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• Difference between Renewable Resource and Recyclable Resource

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• 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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• Fossil Fuel Examples

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• Coal• Peat• Natural Gas• Oil

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• Examples of a raw material in a product

• A basketball shoe…

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• Cotton• Leather• Oil

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• Examples of Human-Environment Interaction

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

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• Effects of human population growth on the environment

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

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

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

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• Theme II: Place

• Examples that describe a “place?”

• Must answer the question: What is the location like?