Human Geography

Understanding how and why people move is important to

• geographers
• historians
• economists
• geographers and historians

Which of the following would be a pull factor, or something that pulls someone to a new place?

• a shortage of food
• cheap, good farmland
• lack of jobs
• lack of freedom

Which of the following would be a push factor, or something that pushes someone out of a place?

• freedom
• good government
• lack of jobs
• chance for a better life

Which of the following would be most helpful in understanding why people moved from other countries to the United States?

• diaries of immigrants
• book about pioneers living on the Plains
• map of the world
• chart showing where immigrants came from

What was the secret group of routes, safe places, and people that helped enslaved people escape to freedom called?

• Orphan Trains
• Westward Movement
• The Great Migration
• The Underground Railroad

Where did most of the orphans who traveled on the orphan trains end up living?

• big cities like New York City
• California and Oregon
• farming areas of the Midwest
• small towns in Canada

What is culture?

• different foods and traditions
• the way of life of a group of people
• how people dress
• a theme of geography

Which of the following is true about regions in the United States?

• Regions are often different because different cultural groups moved there.
• The regions are all very much alike.
• People from Mexico only live in the Southwest region.
• All regions have the same culture.

When people use, adapt, or modify the earth they are using what theme of geography?

• movement
• place
• region
• human/environment interaction

People in Michigan wear warm coats, hats, and mittens in winter to fit their environment. What is this an example of?

• adapting to the environment
• movement
• modifying the environment
• a core democratic value