Push and Pull Factors

Question 1

What is a PUSH FACTOR?

Answer 1

A factor that motivates a person to migrate away from their country or region of residence

Question 2

What is a PULL FACTOR?

Answer 2

Something that attracts people to a place or an activity

Question 3

What does EMIGRANT mean?

Answer 3

A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another

Question 4

What does IMMIGRANT mean?

Answer 4

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

Question 5

What does MIGRATION mean?

Answer 5

The seasonal movement of animals or from one region to another/movement from one part of something to another

Question 6

What does IMMIGRATION mean?

Answer 6

The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

Question 7

What does EMIGRATION mean

Answer 7

The act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad

Question 8

What does MIGRATE mean?

Answer 8

The movement of an animal (typically a bird or fish) move from one region or habitat to another according to the seasons/move from one part of something to another

Question 9

In Haiti there is poverty, crime and violence and very little money. Jessica wants to move to Barbados. What are these factors that want to make Jessica move and what would she be called when she moves to Barbados?

Answer 9

These factors that make Jessica want to move are called push factors, when she moves to Barbados she would be a IMMIGRANT

Question 10

Name 5 PUSH FACTORS that would make a person want to leave their country

Answer 10

Options:

-Lack of jobs or opportunities

-Absence of good educational institutes

-Poor medical care

-Poverty

-Famine or drought

-War and
political conflicts

-Religious or political persecution

-Natural disasters

-Flooding