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 is culture?

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

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

Cutting down trees to clear the land for farming is an example of 

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

Which of the following shows how people adapted to life on the plains?

• They moved there in covered wagons.
• They built towns.
• They cleared land for farms.
• They built sod houses and windmills.

Natural resources which are found in the ground are called

• iron and copper
• minerals
• chemicals
• fossils