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Jaden Lee English 6 cards

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1What are demographers?people who study population trends and data about population.
2What is population distribution and what are the classified terms?the pattern of how people are arranged in a given area.
clustered-close together and unevenly distributed
scattered-spread over a large area and not grouped together
linear-forming a line, which can be straight or wavy
peripheral-distributed along the perimeter of an area
3What are the classified area names?hamlet-less than 100
village-at least 100
town-at least 1000
city-at least 100 000
mega city-can be 10mil
4What is population density? How do you calculate it? Terms?the number of people in a given area.
people(population) divided by km2 of the land.
dense-describes high pop density(often crowded)
sparse-low pop density (scattered)
settlement hierarchy-an ordering of settlements by size of population.
5What is a choropleth map?a map that shows one type of data (population) via colour and shading. Darker shading means higher population density.
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