human geography terms
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Human Geography Terms
By: Shree
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Population Distribution
The arrangement or spread of people living in agiven area; also, how the population of an areais arranged according to variables such as age,race, or sex.
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Human Settlement Patterns
The science of human settlements, including cityor community planning and design.
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Clustered Settlement
A clustered settlement is a settlement patternidentified by its dense development around acentral church or public place. One example isHeca, Saudi Arabia which is one of the onlywater resources and, as a result, has aclustered settlement pattern.
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Scattered Settlement
Scattered settlements are made up of individualbuildings scattered over a wide area. Oneexample is rural southwest Ontario which hasexcellent soil supply and has scatteredsettlement patterns.
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Linear Settlement
Linear settlements are located in a line alongmain transport routes such as roads, railways,rivers and canals. One example is wheneveryone wanted to live near the St. Lawrenceriver in Montreal for the water and to fish.
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Population Density
Population density is the number of peopleliving per square kilometer. Some places withhigh population density are Bangladesh and Hong Kong. Northern Ontario is a place with low population density.
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Population Density of the World
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Overpopulated
Excessive population of an area to the point ofovercrowding, depletion of natural resources, orenvironmental deterioration.