Cultural Geography of US and Canada
Population Patterns
Key Points
- Both Canada and the United States are home to various groups of native peoples and descendants of immigrants
- Physical geography impacts the distubtion and density of population in the U.S. and Canada
- North Americas settlements and its largest cities developed along waterways
- Natural resources and waterways for transportation helped North America industrialize
Vocabulary
- Immigration- Coming to permanently in a forgein in country
- Native American- A member of any of the indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Sunbelt- A part of land that receives a lot of sunshine
- Urbanization- Becoming more like a city (turning a town into a city, urbanization)
- Metropolitan Area- Region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing
- Suburb- An outlying district of a city
- Megalopolis- A chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas
- Mobility- The movement of people in a population, as from place to place, from job to job, or from one social class to another