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MIGRATION AND SEARCH FOR OPPORTUNITIES

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

WHAT IS MIGRATION?

a)

Search for jobs in other countries.

b)

The movement of people from one permanent home to another.

c)

The movement of people for tourism.

d)

All of them

2.

Why do people migrate?

a)

Sometimes they are forced to move.

b)

People are attracted to new places to live.

c)

People want to get better job opportunities.

d)

All of them

3.

What are the advantages of migration?

a)

Migrants may return without new skills.

b)

Money sent home by migrants.

c)

Gender imbalances.

d)

Redution of the size of the country's potential workforce.

4.

What are the disadvantages of migration?

a)

Gender imbalances: Women and children are left.

b)

Migrants may return with new skills.

c)

Decreases pressure on jobs and resources.

d)

All of them

5.

What is a refugee?

a)

It is someone who has left their home to visit other countries.

b)

It is a citizen.

c)

It is someone who has left their home and does not have a new home to go to.

d)

All of them

6.

Push factors are the reasons why people leave an area. They include:

a)

lack of services

b)

high crime

c)

poverty

d)

All of them

7.

Pull factors are the reasons why people move to a particular area. They DON'T include:

a)

good climate

b)

lack of safety

c)

higher employment

d)

safer, less crime

8.

Migration usually happens as a result of a combination of these push and pull factors:

a)

security

b)

environment

c)

stability

d)

All of them

9.

Why do people migrate?

a)

Moving to escape political persecution or war

b)

Moving to find work or follow a particular career path.

c)

Moving somewhere for a better quality of life or to be closer to family or friends.

d)

All of them

10.

Some people are forced to migrate, eg someone who moves due to war or famine.

a)

True

b)

Falso