Why people and animals move
Migration is rarely a single decision. Geographers separate the reasons that push people away from a place from the reasons that pull them towards another.
Part of your national curriculum
- Human and physical geography: Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Explain push and pull factors for migration
Key learning points
- • Push and pull
- • Animal migration compared
This lesson at a glance
- 20 minutes
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- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
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Why people and animals move
Migration is rarely a single decision. Geographers separate the reasons that push people away from a place from the reasons that pull them towards another.
In a nutshell
Explain push and pull factors for migration
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Push and pull
Push factors include conflict, drought and lack of work. Pull factors include safety, jobs, family already settled and better services.
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Learn
Animal migration compared
Wildebeest follow rainfall and grazing; Arctic terns follow daylight. Like people, animals move towards resources and away from scarcity — but instinct and inherited routes do the deciding.
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Challenge round
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Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
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Challenge round
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Game · Fill the gaps
Finish the sentences
Choose the word that belongs in each gap.
Push ____ include conflict, drought and lack of work.
Challenge round
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Game · Recall cards
A city's population doubles in twenty years. Which pressure is most likely?
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Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Why people and animals move
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. A city's population doubles in twenty years. Which pressure is most likely?
2. Drought forcing a family to leave is a…
3. Wildebeest migration mainly follows…
4. A pull factor could be…
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Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration