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Social Studies
Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Population Distribution | a description of where people have chosen to live in a particular country or region |
| Archipelago Effect | a term used to describe Canada's pockets of settlements as a group of islands |
| Population Density | a measure of how closely together people live in a given country or area |
| Site factors | features of the physical landscape if a place. ex. fertile soil, abundant trees, plentiful fish, and presence of mineral. |
| Situation factors | factors involving the relationship of a place to other places ex. trade, markets, and transportation |
| confluence | a place where two or more navigable rivers come together |
| Head of navigation | the farthest point of travel by one method |
| Relocation | the forced movement of a group of people |
| Township system | settlement system used in Ontario based on square blocks of 100 acres of land |
| Seigneurial system | a system of landholding that was used in France and later in Quebec; led to settlement pattern of long, narrow lots facing rivers and roads. |
| Inuit | Aboriginal people of Arctic Canada |
| Metis | people of First Nations and European ancestry or of Inuit and European Ancestry |
| Corridors | an area of urban development that extends from a large city, often along a major highway |
| Rural | describes those areas, often agricultural, that are located outside towns and cities |
| Industrial Revolution | the transition from an economy based on agricultural to one based on manufacturing |
| Urban | describes towns or cities with a population of 1000 or more, or areas with population density of at least 400 people per square kilometer |
| Rural to Urban Drift | the movement of people from areas of lower population densities into towns and cities |
| Urbanization | the process by which a rural area becomes urban |
| Megacities | massive urban areas that are so large that city life becomes extremely difficult to sustain |
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