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Migration Cause-Effect Organizer

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Migration Cause-Effect Organizer

People moving with belongings illustrating human migration

📖 Part 1: Identifying Causes and Effects

1. Based on the reading passage, list three main causes of human migration:

Environmental Causes: ________________________________

Economic Causes: ____________________________________

Social/Political Causes: _____________________________

2. What are two positive effects of migration on communities?
3. What are two challenges that migration can create?
4. Circle the best example of a cause-effect relationship from the passage:

Drought leads to difficult farming, so people move to find better land

People bring their culture when they migrate

The Great Migration happened from 1910-1970

Many people live in northern cities

🔗 Part 2: Cause-Effect Chains

5. Complete this cause-effect chain about environmental migration:

CAUSE: Climate change causes severe drought → EFFECT: _________________ → EFFECT: _________________

6. Create your own cause-effect chain for economic migration:

CAUSE: _________________________ → EFFECT: _________________ → EFFECT: _________________

7. Using the Great Migration example, explain how migration affected both the places people left AND the places they moved to:

Effect on the South (where people left):

Effect on Northern cities (where people moved):

🌍 Part 3: Analyzing Migration Scenarios

8. Read this scenario: "A volcanic eruption destroys farmland on an island. Families can no longer grow food to survive." Check all the likely effects:

People will migrate to find new places to live

The population of nearby areas may increase

Families will bring their traditions to new places

There may be competition for jobs in receiving areas

The island's environment will immediately recover

9. Think like a scientist: How might understanding cause-effect relationships in migration help us solve problems today?
10. Choose ONE current migration example (from the news, your community, or your family's history). Draw a simple cause-effect diagram in the box below:

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