Important Geography Vocab

What is a push factor?

• Same as a pull factor

• Something in your home country that makes you want to leave.

• Something in another country that makes you want to go there.

• Something that makes you want to push an issue in your home country.

What is a pull factor?

• Something that pulls you into a bad country.

• Something that happens in another country.

• Something in another country that makes you want to move there.

• Something that happens in your country that makes you want to leave.

What does Migrate mean?

• movement of people to an area they have lived in before

• When people move within their own country

• Th action of coming to live permenantly in a new country

• movement of people to a new area

What does Immigrate mean?

• The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

• leaving a country to live elsewhere

• moving to a place where you have lived before

• moving to a new area

What does Emigrate mean?

• Something in a new country that makes people want to live there.

• To leave a country or region to live elsewhere

• The action of coming to live permenantly in a foreign country.

• Movement of people to a new area

What is Social Migration?

• Moving due to family or cultural reasons

• To leave a country to live elsewhere

• The action of coming to live permenantly in a foreign country

• When you change to a new Social Media platform

What is political Migration?

• To leave a country or region to live elsewhere

• Moving due to the government and/or national situation or policies

• Moving due to family or cultural reasons

• The action of coming to live permenantly in a foreign country

What is Economic Migration?

• moving to government and or national situation

• Moving due to the government and/or national situation of policies

• relating to races of large groups of people who have the same customs, religion, origin etc

• moving due to financial reasons(money)

What does ethnic mean?

• Moving due to the government and/or national situation or policies

• relating to races of large groups of people who have the same customs, religion, origin etc

• Moving due to the physical land and climate

• moving from one place to another

What is Genocide?

• Moving due to financial reasons(money)

• Moving due to the government and/or national situation or policies

• of or relating to races of large groups of people who have the same customs, religioin, origin etc

• The deliberate killing of people who beling to a particular racial, political or cultural group