Push and Pull Factors of Migration

Population Density needs division, so keep calculators nearby if that is not the focus. Push and Pull Factors of Migration and Urban, Suburban and Rural Areas are text based and work well as paired reading.

Sort twelve factors as push or pull, then analyze why the Ortiz family moved to Monterrey. The directions on the page read: Read the text and the story. Then sort the factors and answer the questions on page 2. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade World Geography and Regions, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with population and migration. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Divide the number of people by the area. Population Density shows that a region with 3,000,000 people on 12,000 square kilometers has a density of 250 people per square kilometer.

Internal migration is a move inside your own country, and international migration is a move to a different country. In Push and Pull Factors of Migration, the Ortiz family moves from a dry valley in Mexico to Monterrey, which is internal.

An urban area is a city with high population density, a suburban area is a community at the edge of a city, and a rural area is the countryside with low density. Urban, Suburban and Rural Areas compares housing, transportation, jobs and open space.