demography / migration

Sparsely populated

• A phrase used to describe an area where LOTS of people live (HIGH population density)

• few people in an area

• A model used in population geography to show the age and sex distribution of a particular population.

• The way people distribute themselves in their environment, including where they locate their dwellings, how they group dwellings into settlements,and how permanent or transitory those settlements are

Push Factor

• factors that concern how people organize into groups, such as social classes or religious groups

• Factors that induce people to leave an old location to a new one. Factors include oppression, poverty, political conflicts and environmental problems.

• Reasons for human migration relating to government, their policies, and wars

Population Pyramid

• The way people distribute themselves in their environment, including where they locate their dwellings, how they group dwellings into settlements,and how permenant or transitory those settlements are

• a measurement of the number of people per given unit of land

• A model used in population geography to show the age and sex distribution of a particular population.

• A phrase used to describe an area where LOTS of people live (HIGH population density)

Pull Factor

• factors that concern how people organize into groups, such as social classes or religious groups

• Factors that induce people to leave old location to a new one. Factors include oppression, poverty, political conflicts and environmental problems.

• Reasons for human migration relating to government, their policies, and wars

• Factor that induces people to move to a new location. Factors include freedom, economic opportunities and cultural ties.

Factors that concern how people organize into groups, such as social classes or religious groups

• Pull Factor

• Political Factors

• Social Factors

• Push Factor

The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban

• Demography

• Social Factors

• Urbanization

• Shanty Towns

Economic Motives

• the movement of persons from one country or locality to another, generally a permanent move to a new location

• residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city

• when people in a society suffer from poverty or lack of opportunity, this pushes them to move to a new location

• Urban area consisting of a core city and its surrounding suburbs

A measurement of the number of people per given unit of land

• Densely populated

• Political Factors

• Population Density

• Population Pyramid

A phrase used to describe an area where LOTS of people live (HIGH population density)

• Sparsely populated

• Environmental Factors

• Population Pyramid

• Densely populated

Residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city

• Migration

• Metropolitan Region

• Suburbs

• Economic Motives