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Geography test – population and migration
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1. Choose the right question for each paragraph of the following article and explain the underlined
words
What’s Happening in Europe? Here’s what you need to know about the crisis in Europe.
September 11, 2015 By TFK Staff
adapted from : TIME For Kids timeforkids.com/digital.
a. ___________________________________________
Under international law, refugees are people who flee their country because of war or persecution.
Migrants are people who move to another country for jobs and in an effort to improve their lives.
Why are Syrians, Iraqis, and Afghans travelling to countries in Europe?
Many are fleeing violence. Most of the refugees are from Syria, where a civil war1 has been raging
since 2011.
b.
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Many refugees and migrants are taking boats across the Mediterranean Sea to Greece and Italy.
More than 2,500 people have died this year attempting to cross the sea in unsafe boats. Other people
are travelling overland into Hungary from Serbia.
c.
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Many people hope to settle in Germany, Austria, and other northern countries. Hungary is a midway
point. This summer, thousands of Syrian refugees were stranded in Hungary when authorities
refused to let them board trains to Germany and Austria. To reduce the number of people entering
Hungary, the country is building a barbed-wire fence on its border2 with Serbia.
d.
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Germany says it will get 800,000 people this year. Britain says it will take up to 20,000 Syrian
refugees by 2020. France says it will welcome3 24,000 by 2017. Many refugees still face an
uncertain future.
e.
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On September 10, the U.S. said it would accept 10,000 refugees from Syria over the next year. The
U.S. has given more than $4 billion in aid to those affected by Syria’s civil war, more than any other
country. It is also giving $26.6 million for food, water, and legal help for refugees.
1. Is the U.S. doing anything?
2. What countries are receiving refugees?
3. Who is a refugee? Who is a migrant?
4. Why did so many people end up in Hungary?
5. How are people getting to Europe?
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2. Answer the following questions
a. What is the difference between push and pull factors?
b. What do demographers study? How?
c. How densely populated can a territory be?
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3. Match the words with their definitions
emigration
people who enter the country without proper
documents
immigration
where the birth rate equals the death rate and the
population remains stable.
natural increase
move to a location
illegal immigrants
move from a location
zero population growth
the difference between the number of births and deaths
in a specific location
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4. Choose the right answer
1. What is the most densely populated continent?
a. Europe
b. Africa
c. Asia
2. When a population pyramid has a wide base it does not tend to have...
a. high birth rate
b. an old population
c. high death rate
3. Which of the following is not a pull factor?
a. unemployment
b. fertile land
c. friends and family
4. How many people live on Earth?
a. about 7 million
b. about 7 billion
c. about 700 billion
5. The world population is
a. getting younger
b. stable in terms of average age
c. getting older
6. Who lives longer, men or women?
a. men
b. women
c. no difference between men and women
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