PULL AND PUSH FACTORS WORKSHEETS

As you can see, our textbook has not much information about migration. So, here there is some extra information and activities for you to learn more about why people decide to leave their home country.

MIGRATION: PULL AND PUSH FACTORS.

In the next video you can see some images showing some migration factors. Could you classify them by pull and push factors.MIGRATIONS: PULL AND PUSH FACTORS on PhotoPeach

USA BIG CITIES

One of the consequences of population growth is the development of cities. Watch this video and answer the questions.

NATURAL MOVEMENTS OF THE POPULATION

Do you remember how to calculate population's rates?

POPULATION DENSITY

Why do people choose to live in some places and not in others?
In the next tables you can find some reasons for explaning people's distribution.

PHYSICAL
	Densely populated	Examples	Sparsely populated	Examples
Relief	Flat plains and low-lying undulating areas	Bangladesh	High, rugged mountains	Andes
	Broad river valleys	Ganges Valley	Worn-down shield lands	Canadian Shield
	Foot hills of active volcanoes	Etna, Pinatubo
Climate	Evenly distributed rainfall with no temperatures extremes	North-west Europe	Limited annual rainfall	Sahara Desert
	Areas with: 1.high sunshine totals 2.heavy snowfall for tourism	1.Spanish coast	Low annual temperatures	Greenland
		2.-Swiss alpine valleys	High annual humidity	Amazon rainforest
	Seasonal monsoon rainfall.	Bangladesh	Unreliable seasonal rainfall	Sahel
Vegetation	Grassland (ease to clear/farm)	Paris Basin	Forest	Amazonia, Canadial Shield
Soil	Deep fertile silt left by rivers	Nile Valley and Delta	Thin soils in mountainous or glaciated areas.	Northern Scandinavia
	Volcanic soils	Etna	1.Laking humus 2.affected by leaching	1.Sahel 2.Rainforest
Natural resources	Mineral, e.g. coal, iron ore	Pennsylvania, Johannesburg	Lacking minerals	Ethiopia
	Energy supplies, e.g. HEP	Rhône  Valley	Lacking energy supplies	North-east Brazil
Water supply	Reliable supplies	North-west Europe	Unreliable supplies	Afganistan
Natural routes	Gaps through mountains, confluence of valleys.	Rhine Valley, Paris	Mountain barrier	Himalayas

HUMAN
	Densely populated	Examples	Sparsely populated	Examples
Economic	Ports	New York, Sydney	Limited facilities for ports	Bangladesh
	Good roads, railways, airports	Germany, California	Poor transport links	Himalayas
	Industrial areas (traditional)	Pittsburgh, Ruhr	Lack of tourist development	Sudan
	Development of tourism	Banff(Canada), Jamaica	Lack of tourist developments	Iraq
	Money available for new high-tech industries.	California, south of France	Lack of government investment	Nepal, Gaza
Political	Government investment	Tokyo region, north Italy	Lack of government investment	Dem. Rep. of Congo
	New towns	Satellite towns around Cairo, Brasilia	Depopulation of rural and old industrial areas	North-east Brazil, Belgian coalfield
	Reclamation of land	Hong Kong Island, Dutch polders	Loss of land, e.g. deforestation, and soil erosion	Amazonia, Apennines, Sahel
Social	Better housing opportunities	Arizona	Poor housing opportunities	Afghanistan, Soweto
	Education , health facilities, entertainment	Sydney, Milan	Limited education, health facilities, entertainment	Rwanda
	Retirement areas	Spanish costas, Canary Islands	Poor facilities for retirement	Eritrea