Human Settlement Key Words

Thematic Maps (e.g. Choropleth)

Absolute Location

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

Longitude

Latitude

Dot Distribution

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.

Urban Planning

Scattered Population

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

Clustered Population

Linear Population

Population Density

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

Rural

in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.

Urban

Urbanization

Suburban

A residential area on the outskirts of a city.Suburban areas have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods.

Developing Nations

Developed Nations

Site

physical characteristics of a place (ex. climate, water bodies, topography, soil, vegetation, elevation)

Situation

Migration

Immigration

Emigration

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

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.