Migration
What is the movement of people from one place to another?
What is migration?
What disease can spread through contaminated water and cause severe diarrhea and dehydration?
What is cholera?
What is a serious event that causes damage, destruction, or disruption to people and communities?
What is a disaster?
A new invention spreads from one country to another. What type of movement is this?
What is the movement of ideas?
Poor sanitation and contaminated water can lead to the spread of what disease?
What is cholera?
What do we call something that causes people to leave their home?
What is a push factor?
Why did cholera spread quickly in many 19th-century cities?
What are contaminated water and poor sanitation?
Tornadoes are especially common in an area of the central United States known as what?
What is Tornado Alley?
A ship carries wheat from one country to another. What type of movement is this?
What is the movement of goods?
What is the difference between a push factor and a pull factor?
What is a push factor encourages people to leave a place, while a pull factor attracts people to a new place?
A lack of jobs, war, famine, or religious persecution can all be examples of what?
What are push factors?
Why were port cities particularly vulnerable to the spread of disease?
What is large numbers of people and goods were constantly moving through them?
Hurricane Katrina caused thousands of people to leave New Orleans. What type of movement occurred?
What is migration?
Which of the following is an example of movement of ideas?
A. A family moves to another state
B. A hurricane crosses the ocean
C. A new technology spreads between countries
D. A ship carries food
What is C. A new technology spreads between countries?
A family loses its home because of a wildfire and moves to another community. What is one cause and one effect?
What is the wildfire is the cause, and the family's movement/displacement is an effect?
A person leaves their home country because there are few jobs. They move to the United States because they believe they can find better employment. Identify the push and pull factors.
What is lack of jobs as the push factor and economic opportunity as the pull factor?
John Snow studied cases of Cholera in London and discovered that many sick people had gotten their water from the same source. What did his investigation help demonstrate?
What is Cholera could be connected to contaminated water?
How can geography influence the effects of a natural disaster?
What is geography can affect where disasters occur and how vulnerable people and communities are to their effects?
Why can the movement of ideas change societies?
What is new ideas can change how people communicate, work, learn, govern, or solve problems?
A hurricane forces thousands of people to leave their homes. Some people eventually return, while others permanently relocate. What does this demonstrate about movement?
What is disasters can cause temporary or permanent migration?
Explain why migration can change the society people move into.
What is migration can introduce new cultures, languages, traditions, foods, religions, skills, and ideas to a community?
Explain how movement helped cholera become a larger problem in crowded cities.
What is people moved through crowded cities and contaminated water could spread disease from one person or community to another?
A city is located near a coastline and below sea level. A major hurricane approaches. Explain why the city's geography could make the disaster worse.
What is the city's coastal location increases its exposure to storms and flooding, while being below sea level can make it harder for floodwater to drain?
Movement can involve people, goods, ideas, diseases, and natural disasters. Explain why movement does not always have a positive effect.
What is movement can bring opportunities and new ideas, but it can also spread disease, cause displacement, or create economic and social problems?
A community experiences a hurricane. Roads are destroyed, people leave their homes, businesses close, and supplies become difficult to obtain.
Identify TWO different ways movement affected this community.