Human Geography Lesson 2

Front

Bad things that make you want to migrate

Back

push factors

Front

Understanding how and why people move is important to: geographers, historians, economists, geographers and historians

Back

geographers

Front

Which of the following would be a pull factor, or something that pulls someone to a new place? Options: a shortage of food, cheap, good farmland, lack of jobs, lack of freedom

Back

cheap, good farmland

Front

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

Back

lack of jobs

Front

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

Back

The Underground Railroad

Front

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

Back

farming areas of the Midwest

Front

Where did most of the orphans who traveled on the orphan trains end up living? Options: big cities like New York City, California and Oregon, farming areas of the Midwest, small towns in Canada

Back

farming areas of the Midwest

Front

What is culture?

Back

the way of life of a group of people

Front

Which of the following shows how people adapted to life on the plains? Options: They moved there in covered wagons., They built towns., They cleared land for farms., They built sod houses and windmills.

Back

They built sod houses and windmills.

Front

To enter and live in a new country

Back

immigrate