(CNN)For a group of radical anti-Western militants, ISIS is pretty good at luring Westerners to its ranks.

The latest is an American teen from suburban Chicago who was allegedly on his way to join ISIS. Mohammed Hamzah Khan was stopped just before he was supposed to board a plane to Turkey, authorities said.

But he's far from alone.

Last month, U.S. authorities detailed their case against a New York food store owner accused of funding ISIS and plotting to gun down American troops who had served in Iraq.

And a French man told his mother that he and his half-brother were going on vacation -- only to tell her later that they were fighting in Syria.

"Some of the foreign fighters may not return as terrorists to their respective countries, but all of them will have been exposed to an environment of sustained radicalization and violence with unknowable but worrying consequences," Richard Barrett of The Soufan Group wrote in a report called "Foreign fighters in Syria" this summer.

So what is it about ISIS and its uncanny ability to recruit Westerners? Here are five methods the group employs:

It preys on a recruit's sense of identity

The recruits are often young -- sometimes disillusioned teenagers trying to find purpose and make their mark.

For many, it boils down to a lack of a sense of identity or belonging, Barrett said.

"The general picture provided by foreign fighters of their lives in Syria suggests camaraderie, good morale and purposeful activity, all mixed in with a sense of understated heroism, designed to attract their friends as well as to boost their own self-esteem," he wrote. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where was Mohammed Hamzah Khan going?
2. How was he going to travel
3. What was he planning to do?
4. Is he a youngster?
5. From where?
6. Does he live in the inner city?
7. Which part then?
8. How many ways are known for ISIS to gather recruits?
9. Do they go after older people
10. What group do they try to get?
11. What are they counting on them lacking?
12. What group of people is ISIS against?
13. Do they let them join?
14. Where was a food store owner from that tried to help ISIS?
15. What was he accused of?
16. Was he going to attack anyone?
17. Who
18. Which ones?
19. Is this problem only in the U.S.?
20. What other country has it?
Answer: 1. Turkey
2. by plane
3. join ISIS
4. yes
5. Chicago
6. no
7. the suburbs
8. five
9. no
10. disillusioned teenagers
11. a sense of identity or belonging
12. Westerners
13. yes
14. New York
15. funding ISIS
16. yes
17. American Troops
18. who had served in Iraq.
19. no
20. France

Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

The state's name, Michigan, is of French origins (form of the Ojibwe word) "mishigamaa", meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area, and the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River.

Michigan's capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit.

Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula, to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is often noted to be shaped like a mitten. The Upper Peninsula (often referred to as "the U.P.") is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. The two peninsulas are connected by the Mackinac Bridge. The state has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world, being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair. As a result, it is one of the leading U.S. states for recreational boating.

Michigan also has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. A person in the state is never more than from a natural water source or more than from a Great Lakes shoreline. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. how many peninsulas does it have?
2. what language is Michigan derived from?
3. how many lakes and ponds does it have?
4. what separates the two peninsulas?
5. how many lakes does the strait join?
6. what are they called?
7. what region of US is it in?
8. what is the capital city?
9. does it have the largest population in the US?
10. what rank is it?
11. where is it considered to be the largest state?
12. is Lansing the biggest city in the state?
13. what is?
14. what bridge connects the peninsulas?
15. how many of the great lakes is it bounded by?
16. out of how many?
17. What does mishigamaa mean?
18. what is shaped as a mitten?
19. what does it lead in?
20. what does it have that can't be found in the world?
Answer: 1. two
2. French
3. 64,980
4. the Straits of Mackinac,
5. Two
6. Lake Huron and Lake Michigan
7. Great Lakes and Midwestern
8. Lansing
9. No
10. tenth
11. east of the Mississippi River.
12. No
13. Detroit
14. Mackinac Bridge.
15. four
16. five
17. large water or large lake
18. The Lower Peninsula
19. recreational boating.
20. the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision

The Portuguese Empire (), also known as the Portuguese Overseas ("Ultramar Portugues"), was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in world history and the first colonial empire of the Renaissance. It existed for almost six centuries from the capture of Ceuta in 1415 to the handover of Portuguese Macau to China in 1999.

The first era of the Portuguese empire originated at the beginning of the Age of Discovery. Initiated by the Kingdom of Portugal, it would eventually expand across the globe. Portuguese sailors began exploring the coast of Africa and the Atlantic archipelagos in 141819, using recent developments in navigation, cartography and maritime technology such as the caravel, in order that they might find a sea route to the source of the lucrative spice trade. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and in 1498, Vasco da Gama reached India. In 1500, either by an accidental landfall or by the crown's secret design, Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil on the South American coast.

Over the following decades, Portuguese sailors continued to explore the coasts and islands of East Asia, establishing forts and factories as they went. By 1571, a string of naval outposts connected Lisbon to Nagasaki along the coasts of Africa, the Middle East, India and South Asia. This commercial network and the colonial trade had a substantial positive impact on Portuguese economic growth (1500-1800), when it accounted for about a fifth of Portugal's per capita income. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what is one of the longest lived empires?
2. is there an alternate name?
3. what?
4. What years did it exsist for?
5. how many centuries is that?
6. What had a substansial impact on the economic growth?
7. Was it a positive impact?
8. Where did sailors explore?
9. Where did they explore first?
10. and?
11. when?
12. what were they searching for?
13. how were they to do this?
14. such as?
15. Who discovered Brazil?
16. where is it?
17. What year?
18. Who sailed to the cape of good hope?
19. when?
20. Who sailed to India?
Answer:
1. The Portuguese Empire
2. yes
3. also known as the Portuguese Overseas
4. from1415 to 1999.
5. almost six centuries
6. a commercial network
7. yes
8. East Asia
9. thee coast of africa
10. the Atlantic archipelagos
11. 141819,
12. Sea route to the source of the lucrative spice trade
13. using recent developments in navigation,
14. such as the caravel,
15. Pedro Alvares Cabral
16. on the South American coast.
17. In 1500
18. Bartolomeu Dias
19. 1488
20. Vasco da Gama