| A | B |
| population | the total number of people living in a place |
| urban | many people living close together |
| suburb | community located at the edge of a big city, like Evanston, Illinois |
| rural | area with few people surrounded by countryside, like Grafton, Illinois |
| history | study of the past |
| Tuscon | city in Arizona named by Spanish settlers in 1692 |
| mission | place where people teach religion to others |
| religion | beliefs about God or gods |
| fort | area or building surrounded by walls and used by soldiers |
| transportation | the way to move people and supplies from place to place, like the train in Tucson |
| culture | way of life of groups of people |
| custom | something done often by members of a group |
| settler | person who moves to a new place to make a new home |