Place names
What are the three countries with the largest number of immigrants in total.
The United States, Germany and Saudi Arabia
Australia was invaded before Europe was?
True
Many migrants send part of their salary home to their families. What is this called?
Remittance/remittering
What fraction of the world's population currently lives in areas that risk becoming uninhabitable due to rising temperatures.
1/3
How do you determine net migration?
The difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants.
The number of migrants has increased after 1990 in all continents, but the increase is greatest in ? and ?
Asia and Europe.
How did people migrate from Russia to the USA in the 25 000 years ago?
They could walk over solid ice
Migration can also pose a number of geographical challenges such as ?
Lack of housing
How has digitalization aided the lack of migration to other countries?
Digitalization creates opportunities for those who do not want to migrate because it is easier to work remotely.
Sweden has a low net birth rate however, at times the net migration is high. What is a possible answer?
Periods of high net immigration have meant that the population has increased by 29 percent since 1970, from 8 to 10.3 million due to immigrants.
Name countries where you can identify a push factor and a pull factor
eg Middle East push factor:war
Sweden pull factor: good social benefits
What was the major cause of urbanisation in the 19th C
Industrialisation and the rapid population growth in Europe during the 19th century. Medical advances and more efficient agriculture meant that the population grew very rapidly
Many migrants who are unable to buy their own homes settle in suburbs with dilapidated housing and a limited range of workplaces, social services and venues for culture and sports. This means that many cities become ......
segregated
About 1 percent of the Earth's land area is uninhabitable due to high heat. By 2070, that proportion could have increased to ______ percent if the temperature increase is not stopped.
19%
A person is considered a refugee if they have been persecuted because of their.... ( name 3)
.. ethnic origin, religion, nationality, membership of a certain social group or political opinion.
why was the Trans-Siberian Railway built?
Interest in using Siberia's rich natural resources as raw materials for the emerging industry increased in the European part of Russia
Migration throughout history is described as four major waves. What are they?
1. Agricultural 2. Colonisation 3. Industrialisation 4. Decolonisation.
In Afghanistan, remittances have given many poor families in rural areas the opportunity to send their children to school, and ? and ?
1. keep their houses warm in winter, and
2. avoid borrowing money at high interest rates
The World Bank estimates that more than 200 million people will be displaced by climate change by 2050. Which 3 areas (parts of continents) will these be from?
Latin America, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
Why is there a relationship between poverty, poor health and migration?
The one usually leads to the other. Poverty may be caused by things like climate change ( crop failure) which means family can no longer provide health care for their children. They try to seek help by moving to other countries who has better job opportunities, education and health care.
The Trans-Siberian Railway is 9,300 km from ? to ?
Moscow to Vladivostok.
What factors caused cities to increase from the 1800's?Name 3 continents and a reason and time for each.
America - migrants from Europe due to industrialisation eg steam ships 17-20 C
Europe - migrants sue to asylum seekers in 21 century
Asia - traders during colonialism
The great wave of refugees in 2015, when 1.25 million refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq sought asylum in the EU. EU was divided over what?
It challenged the willingness and ability of member states to receive refugees
In 2015, six out of ten EU residents were of working age between 20 and 64. This proportion will fall to five out of ten by 2080. What is the problem with this?
Income from fewer people working will then have to be enough to pay for more healthcare and elderly care
Examples of changes that may affect migration in the future include the climate crisis, technological development and digitisation that are changing working life, and the ___________ populations of high-income countries.
ageing