Population and Migration

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Across
  1. 3. - ____ land bridge that connected Asia with the Americas. Asian hunters followed herds of animals and migrated to North America.
  2. 6. - ⅔ of the world’s population lives within 500 miles of the _____
  3. 7. - negative factor that causes people to leave
  4. 8. - country that had a one child policy law to control the population growth
  5. 10. - about 60% of the world’s population live in this continent
  6. 11. - factor of migration; cooling or rising temperatures, a series of droughts, sudden catastrophes such as crop failures, floods, fires and earthquakes can also force people to migrate.
  7. 13. - country that faced a disaster in the 1800s when its potato crop was struck by the potato blight, a disease making potatoes inedible.
  8. 14. - stage in the Demographic Transition Model where the birth rate and death rae are low, stable or slow increase in population, USA falls in this category
  9. 15. - factor of migration; Politics concerns governments, government policies, wars and citizens’ rights.
  10. 17. – stage in Demographic Transition Model where there are high birth rates but falling death rates (ex: Afghanistan).
  11. 18. - factor of migration; People migrate when they are persecuted for being members of a particular ethnic group or religion.
Down
  1. 1. - climate type where most people live
  2. 2. - opposite of rural; city
  3. 4. - ____ revolution led to people leaving the rural countryside to find jobs in the new factories.
  4. 5. - country with the biggest population
  5. 7. - positive factor that attracts a migrant to another place
  6. 9. - Anthropologists believe that the first humans originated from East _____.
  7. 10. - the study of human behavior
  8. 11. - factor of migration; When people in a society suffer from extreme poverty, this pushes some of them to attempt to leave. Many Mexicans migrate north (“El Norte”) illegally for higher wages, working mainly as farmhands.
  9. 12. - also known as the “Fertile Crescent" was one of the first early civilizations located in the river valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  10. 16. - type of migration; slaves from Africa to North America and Native Americans being moved to reservations are examples of this