Population concepts Flashcards
(14 cards)
Population
How many people live somewhere. (New Zealand has a population of 5 million)
Population distribution
Where do people live in an area? Local, regional, national and global.
Population density
Number of people per square km. (Auckland has 12,000 per sq km)
Moderate population density
A moderate population density is somewhere in the middle. These countries average 15 to 150 people per square kilometre.
Densely populated
A high population density implies that the population is high relative to the size of the country.
Sparse populated
Sparsely populated simply means an area that contains few people. Areas are usually sparsely populated due to physical and human factors.
Location factors
Many important geographical factors involved in the location of individual industries are of relative significance, e.g., availability of raw materials, power resources, water, labour, markets and the transport facilities.
Natural/Physical location factors
What natural resources and advantages or disadvantages are there in this location.
Cultural location factors
The set of beliefs, moral values, traditions, language, and laws (or rules of behavior) held in common by a nation, a community, or other defined group of people.
Push factors
Influencing factor/s that motivates a person to leave one’s country or region, but can also be applied to ones organization, religion etc
Pull factors
Factors that attract people to a country, region, religion, organization etc
Obstacles
a thing that blocks one’s way or prevents or hinders progress.
Rural
Country, living out of town.
Urban
An urban area is the region surrounding a city. Most inhabitants of urban areas have nonagricultural jobs. Urban areas are very developed, meaning there is a density of human structures such as houses, commercial buildings, roads, bridges, and railways.
