| A | B |
| Causes of Global Migrations | Mass starvation in Ireland (1845–1850); Partition of India (1947); Latin Americans seeking jobs in the United States (post–World War II); Ethnic cleansing in the Balkans (1990s) |
| Latin Americans | have immigrated to the United States over the last three decades because they want better economic opportunities |
| Bantu migrations in Africa and migrations of the ancient Aryans into South Asia | purpose of movement: searching for additional food sources |
| Slash-and-burn techniques | practiced by subsistence farmers who plant an area until the soil loses its fertility; the farmers then burn the land with ashes and leave it, taking their families with them |
| mass starvation | reason for Irish migration |
| Migration | the process whereby a group of people move from one place to another |