HWG World Geography Vocabulary

relating to and characteristic of cities.

• urban

• rural

• dispersed rural

• clustered rural

economic activities related to providing services for sale.

• settlement patterns

• service industries

• environment

• manufacturing industries

a very large urban region consisting of several adjoining cities and suburbs.

• megaopolis

• sprawl

• metropolis

• megacities

the practice of creating social and environmental policies that protect resources for future generations.

• resources

• modernization

• economic development

• sustainable development

A factor that induces people to move out of their present location.

• culture

• pull factor

• push factor

• urbanization

originating in a particular region.

• domesticated

• cultivated

• culture

• indigenous

statistical data about human populations.

• urbanization

• economic development

• culture

• demographics

the spatial distribution of where humans inhabit the Earth.

• architecture

• settlement patterns

• urbanization

• transportation networks

the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment.

• human geography

• human-environmental interaction

• environmental determinism

• cultural landscape

manufacturing industries.

• A factor that induces people to move out of their present location

• economic activities related to the production of goods for sale

• the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment

• economic activities related to providing services for sale