Population And Migration Flashcards
How is population density measured?
Population density=number of people/area (km2)
What dose high population density mean?
Have lots of people living in that space
What dose low population density mean?
Will have a few people living in that area
High populated places are normally …
Densely populated
Low populated areas are normally…
Sparsely populated
What is population density?
Population density is a measure of how many people are in a set area
Sparsely populated areas…
Australian outback
Antarctica
Greenland
Densely populated areas…
New York
London
Hong Kong
Tell me the three ways how people are distributed around an area?
Evenly spread
Clustered
Randomly spread
What kind of map would you use to show population density?
Cloropleth map
Give me two physical geography reasons that can tract or push people away?
Climate
Relief
Two human reasons ?
City
Jobs
Migration means?
Migration is the movement of people from one place to another
Emigration means?
Emigrants are people who leave a place - E for Exit
Immigration means?
Immigrants are people that arrive at a place
Where the emigrant leaves is called?
Origin
Emigrant arrives at the …
Destination
In between the places is called…
On route
Internal
The movement of people to different areas within the same country
International
This is the movement of people to a country to another country
Rural to urban
The movement from countryside to cities and towns
Temporary
The movement of someone going to a certain country to work and sending back money
Push factors meAning and some reasons
To leave a place and this can cause of high crime crop failure famine poverty war
Pull factors meaning and why
Reasons why it pulls someone to a place
Jobs
Safer
Good land
