Vocabulary

• Population: a group or type of people
• Rural: areas or populations outside cities
• Urban: areas or populations inside cities
• Demography: The study of human population statistics
• Growth rate: A number that shows the increase or decrease in a population during a certain period or time
• Birth rate: The number or live births per thousand people every year
• Death rate: The number of deaths per thousand people every year
• Migration: The movement of people from one place to another
• Economy: The system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region
• Carrying capacity: The maximum number of people that a region can support without running out of resources
• Population distribution: The patterns of how people are arranged in an area
• Clustered: Tightly packed in a small area
• Scattered: Spread over a large area and not grouped together
• Linear: Forming a line, which can be straight or wavy along a natural or human-built feature
• Peripheral: Distributed along the outer perimeter of an area (like a mountain)
• Population density: The number of people in a given area
• Dense: Describes high population density
• Sparse: Describes low population density
• Settlement hierarchy: An ordering of settlements by size of population
• Arable land: An area with fertile soil in a moderate climate, with a consistent water supply, that can be used to grow crops