Unit 2, Lesson 4 - Themes of Geography: Movement and Human-

Civil Strife
Culture
Diffusion

Emigration
External Migration

Human-environment Interaction
Immigration
Internal Migration
Migration
Movement
Persecution
Pull Factor
Push Factor

Vocabulary

1. Explain the causes and effects of migration, including forced and voluntary migration

2. Distinguish among the five themes of geography

3. Describe examples of movement and human-environment interaction

Objectives/Goals

Themes of Geography: Movement and Human-Environment Interaction

​Essential Question: How does studying movement and human-environment interaction help geographers understand the world?

Why would you want to be inside?
Why would not want to be inside?

Why would you want to be outside?
Why would you NOT want to be outside?

Snowy Days

Think about what reasons would make you want to go outside and what reasons would make you want to go inside.

1. Location: where a space is located

   1. Absolute Location: tells the exact spot

   2. Relative Location: describes a location in relation to another location

2. Place: describes what a place is like

3. Region: a group of places with similar physical and human characteristics

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​5 Themes of Geography - Review

1. Geographers use movement to describe how people, products and ideas go from one place to another. 

2. Movement: refers to the movement of people, products, and ideas from one place to another

3. Migration: when people move from one place to live in a different place

   1. Migrant: a person who migrates

   2. Short-Term Migration: moving for shorter amounts of time (seasonal jobs)

   3. Long-Term Migration: moving for long amounts of time (permanently)

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​Movement and Migration

Types of Migration

1. Internal Migration: migration within the same country

   1. Internal - "Inside"

      1. Example: a person moves from Pennsylvania to Texas

2. External Migration: migration from one country to another

   1. External - "Exit"

      1. Emigration: migration out of a country

         1. Example: a person moves from the United States to India

      2. Immigration: migration into a country

         1. Example: a person moves from India to the United States

3. Voluntary Migration: when someone chooses to move for a job or to go to college, etc...

4. Forced Migration: when a person must move because of war or loss of land, etc...

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Match

Match the types of migration with the examples.

• Someone moves from the city of São Paulo, Brazil to the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• Someone moves out of Brazil and goes to another country.

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  Someone from another country moves to Brazil.

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  Someone chooses to move to Rio de Janeiro for a new job.

• Someone's community experienced a flash flood, destroying their homes, so they have to move.

Internal Migration

Emigration

Immigration

Voluntary Migration

Forced Migration

• Internal Migration

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Voluntary Migration

• Forced Migration

Push and Pull Factors of Migration

1. Being closer to family

2. Getting a job

3. Better community

4. Fair Government

5. Opportunities

​Pull Factors: reasons why people want to migrate to a place

1. Persecution: when people are punished or treated badly for reasons such as being from a different religion or ethnicity

2. Civil Strife: violence that involves groups of everyday people, not just governments

3. War

4. Natural Disasters

5. Lack of Freedom
   

Push Factors: reasons why people want to migrate away from a place

Effects of Migration

1. Migration spreads culture (shared beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group of people, including language, religion, values, ways of interacting, etc...) around the world

   1. Immigration leads to diversity

   2. Diffusion: Migration spreads new ideas and technologies

2. Migration can cause tension between different groups

   1. Competition for resources

   2. Competition for jobs

   3. Differences of views or opinions

1. Religions spread to other countries around the world (Judaism)

2. Medical Research and discoveries spread around the world provide better health care

Movement of Ideas

1. Everyday items that come from other countries (electronics)

2. Food items that come from other countries (French Fries - Belgium)

Movement of Products

Movement of Products and Ideas

Word Cloud

What is one product or idea that has been brought to the United States through migration?

Human-Environment Interaction

1. Human-Environment Interaction: how people and their physical surroundings affect each other

   1. How do people impact the environment?

   2. How do people change the environment?

   3. How does the environment impact the people that live there?

Open Ended

From the video we just watched, identify two different ways that humans have impacted or changed the country of Vietnam.

Draw

How many ways can you identify that show how humans have impacted or changed the environment?