UK Cities and Population Distribution

Question 1

What is population density?

Answer 1

Population density is the number of people per square kilometre (live there).

Question 2

What is the number of people per square kilometre called?

Answer 2

The population density is the number of people per square kilometre.

Question 3

What does it mean when a place is sparsely populated?

Answer 3

When there are few people per square km (the population density is low).

Question 4

What does it mean when a place is densely populated?

Answer 4

When there are many people per square km (the population density is high).

Question 5

What is it called when there are few people per square km?

Answer 5

When there are few people per square km it is sparsely populated.

Question 6

What is it called when there are many people per square km?

Answer 6

When there are many people per square km it is densely populated.

Question 7

What percent of the UK’s surface area does countryside cover, and compare that to the percent of the population it houses.

Answer 7

Rural areas cover 92% of the UK’s surface area but only 18% of the population.

Question 8

What percent of the UK’s surface area do urban areas cover, and compare that to the percent of the population it houses.

Answer 8

Urban areas cover 8% of the UK’s surface area, but 82% of the population.

Question 9

Since when was the annual inward migration to the UK higher then outward?

Answer 9

Since 1997, the annual inward migration to the UK was higher than the annual outward migration.