Citizenship
A person who is legally recognized as a member of a country.
What is a citizen?
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
During the 1600s and 1700s, European explorers and settlers were often motivated by these three G's.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
The total number of people living in a region.
What is population?
This climate is hot and dry with very little rainfall throughout the year.
What is an arid climate?
The legal status of being a citizen of a country.
What is citizenship?
Someone who moves INTO a new country.
What is an immigrant?
This 19th-century belief encouraged Americans to expand westward across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
An area with few people and lots of open space.
What is a rural area?
This climate has extremely cold winters, short cold summers, and very few trees.
What is tundra?
A person who becomes a U.S. citizen after birth through the naturalization process.
What is a naturalized citizen?
Someone who EXITS or moves away from a country.
What is an emigrant?
Between 1845 and 1852, this disaster caused many Irish families to immigrate to the United States.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
The process of people moving into cities, causing cities to grow.
What is urbanization?
This climate has a very long, cold, snowy winters and short, cool summers.
What is subartic?
The legal process through which someone who was not a U.S. citizen at birth becomes a citizen.
What is naturalization?
War, poverty, and natural disasters are examples of these reasons people leave their homes.
What are push factors?
During the Industrial Revolution, the growth of these workplaces created jobs that attracted immigrants to American cities.
What are factories?
The average number of years a person is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
This climate experiences warm summers, cold snowy winters, and precipitation throughout the year.
What is humid continental?
Voting in elections is an example of this type of citizenship privilege, while obeying laws is an example of this type of civic duty.
What are rights and responsibilities?
A family leaves their country because of war and move to the United States for better job opportunities. Identify both factors influencing their decisions.
What are war (push factor) and job opportunities (pull factor)?
This immigration station in New York Harbor processed millions of immigrants, especially during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is Ellis Island?
Two cities each have 10,000 people. City A covers 10 square miles, while City B covers 100 square miles. This city has a higher population density.
What is City A?
In this climate, temperature and precipitation changed depending on elevation and latitude.
What is a highlands climate?