unit V
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mrdgeography on November 18, 2008
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Mr. Roehl's Geography 7th Grade Class, Cultural Studies/Burgin
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 site | the physical location of a city |
| situation | the location of a city in regards to surrounding economic, political, or topographic factors |
| urban | city |
| rural | countryside |
| confluence | where two or more rivers come together |
| refugee | someone who flees from a war, conflict, or political or religious persecution |
| migration | to move from one place to another place |
| immigration | to move into a country either legally or illegally |
| megalopolis | a series of cities that become interconnected through urban sprawl |
| gross domestic product | the sum total of all goods and services produced within a country in a year |
| fall line | an area on a river where boats can no longer go upriver because of cataracts, waterfalls, or rapids |
| infant mortality | how many babies die at birth or within the first few years of life |
| literacy rate | how many people can read or write |
| urbanization | when people move into cities |
| urban sprawl | when cities become bigger and spread out over a wide area |
| population distribution | a rough idea of where people live in a country using relative location |
| population density | a mathematical equation of the number of people who live per square mile or kilometer |
| birth rate | the number of people born in a country |
| death rate | the number of people who die in a country |
| genocide | to kill people of a different ethnicity or religion |
| epidemic | a widespread disease over a small geographic area |
| pandemic | an epidemic over a wide geographic area |
| demography | the study of population trends |
| physiological density | the total population divided by the amount of arable land |
| agricultural density | the total rural population divided by the amount of arable land |
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