1 A P SCALE ASSESNENT HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

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____ 1). Migrant people who flee their homelands to escape disaster, poverty, persecution, or war.

____ 2). Changes in the environment, such as cooling or rising temperatures, drought, and extreme weather events. 

 ____ 3). Specific groups of people that share languages,  customs, and a common heritage. 

  ____ 4). The movement of people from one place to another

  ____ 5). Describes how people are spread across the earth.

Multiple Choice

1. IRELAND potato crops failed, leading to famine. This caused millions of Irish people to migrate to the United States. 

2. Somalia and Ethiopia.  In the 1990s, many people in Somalia and Ethiopia moved to avoid civil war, drought, and famine.

3. Yugoslavia. The disintegration of this country in the 1990s caused the displacement of many people, especially Bosnians, Croats, and Serbs.

4. Rwanda. In the mid-1990s, millions of Hutus fled to avoid retaliation after earlier massacres of Tutsis.

WHAT DO ALL THESE HAVE IN COMMON?

• Wars in Africa are particularly violent.

• Political, economic, environmental and social factors can lead to human migration.

• Ethnic wars no longer trouble the world.

• Few people in the world still live in poverty.

Multiple Choice

____ 1). Migrant people who flee their homelands to escape disaster, poverty, persecution, or war.

 

• A). Migration

• B). Cultural groups 

• C). Refugees

• D). Population Distribution 

• E). Environmental Factors

Multiple Choice

____ 2). Changes in the environment, such as cooling or rising temperatures, drought, and extreme weather events. 

 

• A). Migration

• B). Cultural groups 

• C). Refugees

• D). Population Distribution 

• E). Environmental Factors

Multiple Choice

____ 3). Specific groups of people that share languages,  customs, and a common heritage. 

 

• A). Migration

• B). Cultural groups 

• C). Refugees

• D). Population Distribution 

• E). Environmental Factors

Multiple Choice

  ____ 4). The movement of people from one place to another

 

• A). Migration

• B). Cultural groups 

• C). Refugees

• D). Population Distribution 

• E). Environmental Factors

Multiple Choice

  ____ 5). Describes how people are spread across the earth.

 

• A). Migration

• B). Cultural groups 

• C). Refugees

• D). Population Distribution 

• E). Environmental Factors

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PART II: Physical Factors Affecting Migration Routes

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Multiple Choice

 ____________6).  People like to migrate through natural barriers like mountains, deserts, and dense forests.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

 ____________ 7). Groups of migrating people generally avoid valleys, grasslands, and water  routes. 

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

____________ 8).  Historically, most population patterns and distribution could be determined by factors such as availability of water and natural resources.    

• TRUE

• FALSE

Match

Match the following

• RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION

• POLITICAL FACTORS

• ECONOMIC MOTIVES

• FORCED MIGRATION

• PLEASANT ENVIRONMENT

PUSH

BOTH

BOTH

PUSH

PULL

• PUSH

• BOTH

• BOTH

• PUSH

• PULL

Open Ended

11). Which geographic factor was most responsible for increasing migration to the Americas?

Open Ended

12). Explain a cause and an effect of this migration route.

Open Ended

In what ways does physical geography contribute to the pattern shown on the map?

 (Physical geography such as major mountain ranges, deserts, plains, bodies of water, rivers, and climate)

Open Ended

Compare and contrast early human migrations patterns to modern human migrations patterns.