Geography Time
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Transcript of Geography Time
Geography Time
Meet the Teams
Pull Factors
Push Factors
Rules
• Team 1 goes first. Then Team 2. • Fill out your study guide as we go.
How to Score Points
• 1 point: closest line of black tape.• 2 points: halfway back• 3 points: furthest line of black tape• 4 points: your back touching the back wall.
How to Lose Points
• -1 Points: Hit the Promethean Board• -4 Points: Block or disrupt a shot
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• What is migration?
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• The movement of people
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• What is urbanization?
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• People moving from countryside to city
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• What are remittances?
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• When a worker sends money to their family in another country
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• What is a push factor?
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• A reason for leaving a country • (pushes out)
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• What is a pull factor?
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• Reason for coming to a country• (pulls in)
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• What is voluntary migration?
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• A person moves because they want to move• The pull factor is important– Job opportunities, family, better education, etc.
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• What is reluctant migration?
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• A person decides to move, even though they don’t want to move.
• The push factor is the most important.– Natural disasters, wars, famine, etc.
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• What is forced migration?
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• A person is forced to move.• Examples: Slavery, Native Americans on– Reservations, Jews in Concentration Camps
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• What is a refugee?
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• A reluctant immigrant. Someone who decided to leave their home because conditions were so bad.– Survivors of a civil war or natural disaster
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• What is immigration?
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• People moving INTO a country
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• What is a natural resource?
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• Something useful taken from the environment.
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• What is a raw material?
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• A natural resource in its natural state, before it is turned into a manufactured good.
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• What is a recyclable resource?
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• A resource that is naturally recycled by a process in nature.– Water, carbon-dioxide, oxygen
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• What is a renewable resource?
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• A resource that humans can replace once they take it from nature– Wind power, solar power, hydro power– Crops, and wood, etc.
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• What is a nonrenewable resource?
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• A resource that humans cannot replace once they take it from nature.– Fossil fuels– metals
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• What is a fossil fuel?
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• An energy source made from the fossilizing material of dead plants.– Coal– Oil– Peat– Natural Gas
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• What is a Developed Nation?
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• A nation that is rich and technologically advanced.
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• What is a developing nation?
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• A nation that is trying to catch up with Developed Nations in money and technology.
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What is Human-Environment Interaction?
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• When humans change the physical world around them to meet their needs.– Farming, mining, building a dam, building a city,
pollution, etc.
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• Push Factor Examples
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• Natural disaster• War• Famine• Disease• Lack of opportunity• No Jobs• Religious persecution
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• Pull Factor examples
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• Family in another country• Good jobs• Available Land• Religious Freedom• Peace and Safety• Good Education
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• Developed Nation Characteristics
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• Highly Educated Workers• Well-off Citizens• Strong Business• Factories have been around for a long time• Most jobs are based on service• Big, well-developed cities• Population decline
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• Developing Nation Characteristics
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• Lack of Education• Lack of Public Services (sewer systems,
drinking water, garbage collection)• Growing family size and population• Growing factories• Growing cities• Widespread poverty
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• Three kinds of Migration
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• Voluntary (immigrants)• Reluctant (refugees)• Forced (slaves)
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• Effects of Urbanization
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• Large Slums (poor housing conditions)• Lack of services (clean drinking water,
electricity, garbage collection, transporation)• Rising poverty rates• Lack of resources (not enough food)
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• Examples of Reluctant Migration
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• Natural Disaster• Civil War• Famine
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• Difference between Natural Resource and Raw Material
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• Natural Resource: Something useful take from the environment
• Raw Material: A natural resource that will be turned into a product (manufactured good)
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• Difference between Renewable Resource and Recyclable Resource
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• Renewable: Humans can replace it after they take it from the environment (ex: grow more corn)
• Recyclable Resource: Goes through natural cycle to be renewed (drinking water, waste water, river water, ocean, rain, repeat)
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• Fossil Fuel Examples
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• Coal• Peat• Natural Gas• Oil
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• Examples of a raw material in a product
• A basketball shoe…
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• Cotton• Leather• Oil
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• Examples of Human-Environment Interaction
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• Building a city• Deforestation• Desertification• Farming• Building a new dam• Irrigation
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• Effects of human population growth on the environment
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• Air pollution• Water pollution• Oil Spills• Decreasing amounts of available fresh water
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• Cause of rapid rise in human population over the last 200 years
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• More infants survive into adulthood and have families of their own.– Better food supply– Better medical care– High standard of living
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• Theme II: Place
• Examples that describe a “place?”
• Must answer the question: What is the location like?