History settlments Unit 4

Question 1

Demographics

Answer 1

Are satastics that describe populations and their charecteristics.

Question 2

Birth rate

Answer 2

The number of children born each year for every 1000 people.

Question 3

Death rate

Answer 3

The number of people out of 1000 who die in a year.

Question 4

Total Fertility Rate

Answer 4

The total number of babies born to a feamle in her childbearing years (15-45)

Question 5

Life expectancy

Answer 5

The number of years a person can be expected to live.

Question 6

Nautral increase

Answer 6

Is caculated by Birth Rates- Death rates = Nautral incease

Question 7

Urban

Answer 7

Bulitup areas (Large town, city, Megacity)

Question 8

Rural

Answer 8

Countryside (Hamlet, Village, Market Town)

Question 9

Urabnazation

Answer 9

More people leaving places like villages and farms to move to cites.

Question 10

Site

Answer 10

The ground conditions on which a community is bulit, with its physical charecteristics. ( Wet or dry, Steep or flat, warmer or cooler, altitude being low sea level or high sea level.)

Question 11

Situation

Answer 11

Location based on what is around the area. ( Other communties far or near, rivers, and transporation)

Question 12

Migration

Answer 12

is the movement of people from one permanent home to another. This movement changes the population of both areas.

Question 13

Immgration

Answer 13

Movement of people into another country.

Question 14

Emigration

Answer 14

Movement of people out of a country.

Question 15

Push factor

Answer 15

Are reasons why people move away from a place. People often leave rural areas for urban for many reasons.
(EX: lack of jobs, sevices, or social opportunites)

Question 16

Pull factor

Answer 16

Are reasons why people to choose to move to a partiuclar place. Urban areas tend to offer a wide range of jobs, sevecies, facilities, and social opportunites so they can attract more people to live there.

Question 17

Abandonded settlment

Answer 17

Another word is ‘Ghost town’ a place like this is abonded and your likely to see reamnig buldings and dusty areas/roads.

Question 18

Isolated settlment

Answer 18

A single house or a series of buldings located in a iscolated location, usually found in rural areas.

Question 19

Sustanability

Answer 19

Ability to mantain or support a process over time.

Question 20

green belt

Answer 20

An area of open land around a city where it is restricted to bulid on

Question 21

Sphere of influnce

Answer 21

Settelemtns can be linked togther. For example, A city is usually surronded by towns and villages that have transoporation links into the city.

Question 22

East-Facing Homes

Answer 22

Get most of the suns heat in the morning and some shade in the afternoon and evening.

Question 23

West-facing homes

Answer 23

Are mostly shady in the mornings but sunny in the afternoons and evenings. (Plants need to survive the intesne afternoon heat in the summer + survive morning shad)

Question 24

North-Facing Homes

Answer 24

Are mostly shaded for most of the year. Homes tend to be cooler early in the season and warm up as the season progresses. Temputrues are more moderate here meaning not too high or low.

Question 25

South-Facing Homes

Answer 25

on a mountine slope get more sunlight and this causes homes to be warmer from the suns heat. These are the best for farming and settelememt due to the fact that it also protects communties from winds which is great for crops and cities to grow.

Question 26

Rapid industrialization

Answer 26

The fast growth and development of industries in a specific reigon.

Question 27

disparity

Answer 27

A diffrience in level of treatment or level, especially one that is seen as unfair. (Inquality)

Question 28

rural depopulation

Answer 28

The decline in population size and loss of residents in rural areas over time.