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WG Ch. 10 Terms
Demography Vocab
Term | Definition |
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nomadic | a way of life spent wandering in constant search of food for people & domesticated animals |
4 river valleys | Mesopotamia, Indus, Yellow, Nile |
Industrial Revolution | a change from rural farm-based economies to urban factory production |
Urbanization | the movement of people from rural areas to live in urban cities |
Physical factors on human settlement | humans settle near fresh water, access to oceans, low-lying areas with fertile soil |
human factors on human settlement | humans settle near transportation routes, economic activity or valuable resources |
suburbs | residential areas that form satellite cities around older, densely populated cities |
metropolitan region | cities that merge with other cities |
squatter settlements | towns that poor people in less developed countries create as they move to cities |
shanty town | slum settlement where poor people use plywood, corrugated metal, and plastic sheets to create dwellings |
dwellings | houses |
demographers | people who study the characteristics of human populations |
population pyramid | graph that shows the number of males and females by each age group |