Settlement Factors
A settlement factor that deters people from hurricanes, tornadoes, and the Arctic
What is a comfortable climate?
A settlement pattern that surrounds a highway or waterway
What is linear settlement?
What is a dense population?
This process describes leaving a country to reside elsewhere
What is emigration?
A Canadian Island that is in danger due to rising sea levels
What is Prince Edward Island?
A settlement factor that was attractive due to its ability to feed families.
What is sustainable land for agriculture
A settlement pattern that includes apartments, condos, and urbanization
What is a cluster?
A region that has between 15 and 150 people per square kilometer
What is a moderate population density?
What is a pull factor?
The country that is projected to be in the most danger of losing land due to rising sea levels
What is China?
The reason people settled along the Great Lakes
What is access to fresh water?
A settlement pattern that aligns with a sparse population density
What is scattered settlement?
Canada is an example of this population density
What is a sparse population density?
A type of migration often reliant on pull factors
What is immigration?
The ongoing event that leads to melting ice caps and rising sea levels
What is global warming?
Term used to describe where populations of people live throughout the world
What is population distribution?
A waterway predominantly in Quebec that sees linear settlement patterns along its shores
What is the St. Lawerence River?
The formula for population density
What is people in a region divided by the land area?
The term that represents the formula immigration subtract emigration
What is net migration?
The term describing the expansion of cities and subdivisions resulting in the loss of agricultural land
What is (sub)urban sprawl?
Proximity to Lake Ontario, the 401, the GO Train, and Lake Scugog made this Ontario Region attractive to settlers
What is Durham Region?
This densely populated Asian country has adopted the method of growing trees on top of trees to try to be sustainable despite its clustered settlement pattern
What is Japan?
Colours that represent a dense population on a population density map
What are darker colours?
Rising sea levels, inconsistent temperature, and natural disasters are examples of this push factor
What is climate change?
Expanding urban areas create this problem for local wildlife
What is loss of habitat?