Transcript Sparse and Dense Populations

Sparse and Dense Populations
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What is population density?
What is population distribution?
Why are partsContents
of the world more densely
populated than others?
Summary activities
The key concepts covered are:
Place, Space, Scale, Interdependence,
Cultural understanding and diversity
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What is
What is population
population
density?
density?
By the end of this section, you will:
Know what is meant by the
term population density
Understand the difference
between dense and sparse
population
Know where densely populated
areas are located.
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How popular?
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How popular?
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What’s the density?
Some areas of the world are more populated than others.
We use population density
as a measure of how many
people live in a set area.
Population density is
measured in people per
square kilometre (km2).
Population density = Number of people/Area(km2)
India has a population of 1,103,371,000 and covers
3,287,263km2. The population density of India is 336.
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Density calculations
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High or low?
An area that has a high population density
will have lots of people living in that space.
An area that has a low population density
will have few people living in that space.
Places that have a high
population density are said to
be densely populated.
Places that have a low
population density are said to
be sparsely populated.
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