The Modern Word

1. A negative reason, like war or a natural disaster, that forces people to leave their home country.
5. The shift from making things by hand to making them with machines in large numbers.
9. A neighborhood or residential area located just outside of a major city.
10. The movement of people from one place to another.
12. A word describing anything related to life in a city.
14. The buying, selling, or exchanging of goods and services between different countries.
15. The worldwide computer network that makes modern globalization possible.
16. A person who is forced to flee their home country to find safety.
17. The total number of people living in a specific area, city, or country.
19. Scientific knowledge used to create new tools, machines, and computers.

1. Harmful materials released into the environment, often a negative side effect of rapid industrialization.
2. A large building where machines are used to mass-produce goods.
3. The trend of people leaving the countryside to build and live in cities.
4. The process of the world becoming more interconnected through economics, culture, and technology.
6. A person who moves into a new country to live there permanently.
7. A word describing anything related to life in the countryside or farming areas.
8. A severe shortage of food that causes hunger and acts as a major push factor.
11. The process of a society updating its ideas, infrastructure, and technology to be more current.
13. An official count of a country's population, usually conducted by the government every 10 years.
18. A positive reason, like good jobs or safe schools, that attracts someone to move to a new place.