UNIT 3 POPULATION

Famine: shortage of food

Steep: having an almost vertical slope or angle.

Soil: a country, land, or region

Low-lying: lyng near sea level or the ground surface

Sparsely: thinly scattered or distributed

Unevenly: not level or flat

Investment: the investing of money in order to make a profit 

Display: to show or exhibit

Figures: a symbol for a number

Axis: the line around which a rotating body, as the earth, turns

Drought: a long period of dry weather

Barren: not producing offspring

Conurbation:a large urban area, resulting from the expansion of several cities into each other

Megalopolis: a group of cities linked together by a transport network