Population Distribution Flashcards
What is Population distribution?
The way in which people are spread across a given area.
What do geographers study population distribution as?
Local.
Regional.
National.
Global.
Patterns of population distribution tend to be what?
Uneven.
Give an example of uneven population distribution?
In the UK, more people are living in the south-east England than in Wales.
What is population density?
The average number of people per kilometre.
What does population density show?
Whether an area is sparsely or densely populated.
How is population density calculated?
Total population
Divided by
Total land area in kmsquared.
Areas of high and low population density are what?
Unevenly spread across the world.
The majority of places with high population densities are found where?
In the northern hemisphere.
The population density of a country has very little to do with what?.
Its level of economic development.
Give an example of how population density has very little to do with the level of economic development
Both Bangladesh and Japan are very densely populated.
Bangladesh is a LEDC.
Japan is a MEDC.
What affects the spread of people across the world?
Environmental and human factors.
Name 3 factors which attract people to a settlement?
Temperature climate.
Low lying flat fertile land.
Good supply of natural resources.
Where is a place people go for temperature climate and for low lying flat fertile land?
Temperature - UK.
Land - Bangladesh Delta
Name 3 factors which discourage people to a settlement?
Extreme temperature.
Mountainous/high land areas.
Dense vegetation.
