Theme 4 – Population and Settlement

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Theme 4 Population and Settlement

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Starter Activity Working in pairs, write down
as many adjectives as you can for each photo
below

• Photo A

Photo B
Answer the questions below
Why is this area sparsely populated ?
Why is this area densely populated ?
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Lesson 1 Population Distribution

• Key Questions
• What does population distribution and population
  density mean ?
• Where do people in Britain live ?
• Why are people distributed unevenly across the
  Earths surface ?

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Activity 1 What does population distribution
and population density mean ?

• Read page 62 of Key Geography Book 1
• Write down what the following key terms mean
• Population Distribution
• Population Density
• Sparsely Populated
• Densely Populated

- how spread out people are across the Earths
surface
- the number of people living in a given area
(km²)
- places with a few people living there with a
low population density
- places that are crowded with a high population
density
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Describe the population distribution of the UK
Activity 2 Where do people in Britain live ?
Low
Anomaly

• Use HLGTA
• H Highest
• L Lowest
• GT General Trend
• A - Anomaly

General Trend
Choropleth map
High
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World Population Density by country
Western Europe and Asia are densely populated
North America, South America and Africa have a
low population density
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Activity 3 - Why are people distributed unevenly
across the Earths surface ?
Natural Routes
Relief
Climate
Water Supply

• Physical Factors

Vegetation
Natural Resources
Soil
Economic
Human Factors
Political
Social
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Plenary what is the question ?
From the Northwest to the Southeast
Sparsely
Uneven
Densely
The number of people per km² in a country
How spread out people are across the Earths
surface
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Homework

• Explain why some areas of the UK are densely
  populated and why some areas are sparsely
  populated.