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