GRADE 8 GEOGRAPHY REVIEW

How can we make our community more sustainable?

• Using Affordable Housing

• Polluting the Atmosphere

• Growing Housetop Gardens

What does a sustainable community look like?

• A community that limits amounts of waste

• A community that cuts down green areas for building

• A community that eats unreasonable amounts of meat

Why is it important to be sustainable?

• To maintain or improve the state of a place

• To ensure that trees die

• To train animals

• To improve the economic perspective

Why are world- renowned scientists trying to save the Amazon Rainforest now?

• In order to somehow maintain our main supply of oxygen, food, and water.

• In order to maintain the popularity of the place, and to get tourists to visit the place for economic purposes.

Identify the Push Factor

• better healthcare

• poor education

• lower crime rate

• improved sanitation

Identify the Pull factor

• Better Healthcare

• Poor education

• High crime rate

• Poor Sanitation

Identify the Push Factor

• Better healthcare

• Traffic Congestion

• less noise pollution

• improved sanitation

Identify the Pull factor

• Less doctors per 1000 people

• poor healthcare

• better job opportunities

• low wages

Identify a Push Factor... (check all that apply)

• High Crime Rate

• Fear of persecution

• Better salary

• Poor Education

"Push factors are those which attract a person to a particular country or place".

• True

• False