1. Physical Geography & Human Migration

2. Vocabulary
Migration - A permanent move from one place to a new location
Immigration – A permanent move into a new country
Push –factors that make you want to leave a place
Pull – factors that draw you to live in a place

3. Questions
Why do people migrate?

4. Push Factor – Economic
People often leave areas where there is a lack of employment, natural disasters, lack of food or shelter or has a lower standard of living.

5. Desert taking over arable land can be an economic push factor

6. Push Factor - Social
People leave areas where there is a lack of health care, educational opportunities and lack of religious tolerance.

7. Push Factor - Religious Persecution
When people cannot worship as they wish they migrate. The pilgrims that landed at Plymouth were fleeing religious persecution.

8. What is the significance of the map?

9. Push Factor - Political
People leave a place due to unfair legal systems, lack of govermental tolerance, war or terrorism.

10. Push Factor - Political Persecution
Political persecution means that people are punished when they disagree with the government. This happens most in dictatorships or communist countries.

11. Push Factor - Conflict
People flee from wars. These people are known as refugees. There are refugee camps as close as Tornillo Tx.

13. Push Factor - Limits on Freedom
Communist countries often limit personal freedom. People cannot listen to certain music, watch certain television shows, or even say things bad about the government.

14. Pull Factors Religious Freedom Economic Opportunity Land Availability
Political Freedom
Ethnic and Family Ties
Arable Land

15. Impact of Immigration Language Religion and Religious Freedom
Customs/Traditions
Cultural Landscape

16. Push/Pull Practice Create a T Chart like the one on the board
Sort the list of 14 words into one of the two categories in your notebook
Famine adventure war good climate
Land gold jobs tornados
Poverty freedom money family
drought bad climate