Migration & Population
📋 What it is
People move (migrate) for push factors (war, drought, no jobs) and pull factors (safety, work, family).
🗣️ Coach says
Every move has a push and a pull. Something pushes people away — danger, no work — and something pulls them toward a new place — safety, jobs, family. Population maps are really maps of push and pull.
🧠 Memory hook
People move on PUSH (away from) + PULL (toward). Find both forces.
😂 Giggle
Why do people in Finland always seem so happy?
Because they're at the top of the world — literally, they're way up north and consistently ranked happiest!
😲 Whoa!
More than half the world’s people now live in cities — the first time in human history that’s ever been true.
✅ Quick check: Explain migration using a "push factor" and a "pull factor".
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
A push factor drives people away from a place (war, drought, no jobs); a pull factor draws them to a new place (safety, work, family). Migration is push + pull together.
Push–pull is the model geographers use to explain almost every human movement.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Ask a family member (or imagine) one reason someone might move to a new city — is it push or pull?