Geography Unit Test Review

People leave their rural homes (country) and move to urban areas (cities) due to:

• geographic instability

• family problems

• push and pull factors

• craving the hustle and bustle

Choose all examples of push factors:

• Safety

• Lack of clean water

• More healthcare

• Not enough jobs

• Better education

Choose all examples of pull factors:

• Better housing

• Poor electricity and technology

• Better Housing

• Entertainment

• Lack of food

Push factors:

• Make you want to leave an area.

• Draw you to a new place

Pull factors:

• Make you want to leave an area.

• Draw you to a new place

As seen in the videos in class, how are the rural to urban migration in Bangladesh and China different?

• In China, people have access to social services, education, and healthcare, while in Bangladesh they do not.

• In Bangladesh people are moving into slums, in China they are moving into small apartments and can find low paying jobs

• In China people are migrating because they don't feel safe, while in Bangladesh they are moving for better opportunities.

Scientists believe that sea levels are rising due to these two factors:

• Melting ice caps

• Increased amount of precipitation

• Land Shrinking

• Overall warmer temperature of sea water

Check any of the concerns shared about rising sea levels in the video, "What if all the ice melted on Earth?"

• Crop loss

• Forced migration inland

• Animals losing habitat

• Flooding

What makes Vaxjo, Sweden more sustainable than any cities in Canada?

• The use of fossil fuels

• Biofuel (created from food and human waste) is used for power

• Green space is available

• They recycle

How is the environment impacted because of human settlement? Check all that apply.

• Loss of habitat from expanding settlement

• The environment isn't impacted because of human settlement

• Loss of agricultural land to urban sprawl

• The disruption of migratory routes of different species