DEMOGRAPHICS & POPULATION TRENDS: ALL ABOUT THE #’S

Movement of People (Learning Goal 2): Explain how population and settlement patterns are affected by migration, urbanization, transportation and the availability of resources.(TEKS/SE’s 6b/7b)

In your google drive choose U4LG2 Notes: Movement of People

REVIEW: REFER BACK TO LG 1 IN YOUR ISN

Essential Question #1: Historically, what are the 2 features that have

influenced the size and distribution of settlements?

Human Features Physical Features

Give Examples of Each: Human- Infrastructure, economic & political

systems and services Physical-agriculture/food, favorable climate,

access to water

ESSENTIAL QUESTION #2: WHAT ARE THE PROCESSES THAT HAVE CAUSED

CHANGES TO SETTLEMENT PATTERNS? Availability of resources

Water and natural resources

Transportation Growth of suburbia Railroads (Trans-Continental, Trans-Siberian, Amtrak)- movement

of resources

Urbanization Movement of people from rural to urban areas People move from primary economic activity to secondary,

tertiary and quaternary Motivated by pull factors: jobs, education, infrastructure, etc.

Economic Activities People move to areas with economic opportunities

49 Gold Rush, Midland-Odessa, Central Texas (Austin), outsourcing to India, Amazonian Rainforest, Eastern Europe to Western Europe

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES Primary

Reliance of raw materials/natural resources Such as: Agriculture, Forestry, Mining, Fishing

Secondary Movement to Industry

Raw Materials to Manufactured Goods

Tertiary Service Industry

Law, Retail, Restaurant, Police, Medical, Finance

Quaternary Information Processing

Education, Research, Government, Libraries, IT

Essential Question #3: How do push-pull factors & Geography affect migration?

Human Geographic Factors: Why do People Migrate?Generally categorized as “push-pull” factors•Push factors influence people to migrate from a location•Pull factors influence people to migrate to a location

1.Social Factors2.Political Factors3.Economic Factors4.Environmental Factors

Social Factors

•Relate to an entire group of people moving•Historical migration of the Jews including the formation of Israel•Early religious migration to North America in the 1600s

Political Factors

•Migration motivated by wars, government policies and/or political persecution•Refugees from wars or defections from totalitarian governments

Economic Factors

•Lack of economic opportunities and the lure of economic activities•Immigration to the United States and Canada

Environmental Factors

•Migrations which result in response to adverse or changing environmental conditions•Nomadic herders, migration after droughts, hurricanes, famine, floods, earthquakes and temperature changes

Essential Question #3: How do push-pull factors & Geography affect migration?

Physical Geographic Factors1.Physical barriers affect the flow of migration and migration routes such as mountains, deserts and dense forest serve as natural barriersEx: Himalayas blocking the Indian sub-continent, Amazon

Rainforest in South America and the Sahara Desert2.Physical features such as water routes and valleys have served to facilitate the flow of migrationEx: The Fertile Crescent as a crossroads of trade, the Great

Plains and the Northern European Plain