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Human Settlement Key Words

Regarding Sorts of Immigration

Push Pull Factors

Pull factor is a geography term that is used to describe factors that attract people to a country, region, religion, organization etc.. It is the opposite of a push factor, which involves conditions that motivate one to leave. Push factors come in many forms. Sometimes these factors leave people with no choice but to leave their country of origin. Below are three examples of push factors that drive people to emigrate from their home countries. Lack of Jobs/Poverty: Economic factors provide the main motivation behind migration.

Emigration

The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

Immigration

Migration

Regarding Development and Area

Situation

Site

Developed Nations

Developing Nations

Types of Settlement

Suburban

Urbanization

Urban

Rural

Population

Population Density

the number of people living in each unit of area (such as a square mile)

Linear Population

Clustered Population

Scattered Population

A scattered population is a population distribution when a small amount of people are living in a big area.

Land

Urban Planning

Land Use

Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods.

Mapping

Dot Distribution

Latitude

Longitude

Absolute Location

Absolute location describes the location of a place based on a fixed point on earth.

Thematic Maps (e.g. Choropleth)