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A place with fewer people, where homes are more spread out, and farming is common.
What is rural?
Due to a high number of Venezuelan refugees, hospitals in Colombia are experiencing shortages of this essential resource, making it harder to treat patients.
What is medicine?
A country with more job opportunities and higher wages attracts migrants due to this type of pull factor.
What is an economic factor?
War, poverty, and violence made millions of Afghans do this
What is "flee their country?"
When people are spread randomly with no clear pattern, like in some wilderness areas, this distribution type is used.
What is random distribution?
This term refers to the movement of people, often permanently, from one place to another.
What is migration?
Pakistan’s cities were already struggling with this government set up system of resources, before Afghan refugees arrived. Refugees made access to it even harder. This is especially strained in the urban centers
What is insufficient infrastructure?
A natural disaster, like a hurricane or drought, forcing people to leave their homes is an example of this type of push factor.
What is a physical factor?
This South American country has received nearly 2.8 million Venezuelan refugees, making it the largest host of migrants from Venezuela.
What is Colombia?
This type of population distribution occurs when people live close together in groups, often around resources like water or fertile land.
What is clumped/clustered distribution?
This process happens when more people move from rural areas to cities, making urban areas grow.
What is urbanization?
With more mouths to feed and rising costs, this basic necessity is getting harder to afford.
What is food?
Strict government policies, war, or a lack of freedoms can cause people to flee their country. These are examples of what type of push factor?
What is a political factor?
This extremist group took over Afghanistan in 2021, severely restricting women’s rights.
Who is the Taliban?
This type of population distribution occurs when people are evenly spaced, often due to laws, farmland, or planning, such as in agricultural areas or suburban neighborhoods.
What is uniform (or spread out) distribution?
The idea of how crowded or spread out people are; if people live with more space between them or less space.
What is Population Density?
This major Colombian border city has become a hotspot for migration, leading to increased pressure on housing, law enforcement, and medical services.
What is Cúcuta?
Religious persecution or discrimination can push people to leave their home country. This is an example of what type of factor?
What is a social/cultural factor?
The refugee crisis has led to a rise in violent crime in Cúcuta. Between 2022 and 2023, these two crimes increased by over 100%, leading the mayor to send in soldiers.
What are extortion and armed robbery?
This continent has the highest population density, with billions of people living in a relatively small area.
What is Asia?
The essential systems like roads, transportation, electricity, and water that help a society function.
What is infrastructure?
Pakistan’s power grid is feeling the heat! Refugees add pressure to these essential systems.
What are electricity, water, and sanitation?
A country offering free public education, religious freedom, and strong community support might pull migrants in due to these two specific types of factors.
What are social/cultural and political factors?
Afghan women face extreme restrictions, including bans from these three places.
(What are work, school, and public parks?)
A population pattern where people are spaced out or live along a U.S. highway or road.
What is linear distribution?