Population Vocabulary
What is Population?
The total number of people living in a certain area at a given time.
The world's population is currently at a estimate of how many people?
8 Billion people.
Hanover
Which map is commonly used to represent population density?
Chloropleth map
What is Demography?
Demography is the study of population.
Which is the third most populus parish in Jamaica?
St. Catherine
Which ONE of the following would be more influential in the location of large industries in the Caribbean?
A. Relief
B. Soil
C. Access to the Coast
C. Access to the coast
Which map is commonly used to represent population distribution?
Dot map
What is a Census?
A census a an officail count of the number of people living within a country, taken every 10 or 11 yerars.
Jamaica has a population of roughly of many people?
3 Million people
The distribution of settlemnts along the river Ganges in South Asia is tied to which factor/s influencing population distribution ?
Water supply, Historical factor, Cultural factor
A population pyramid usually highlights what kind of population data?
The number of people living within different age ranges between the sexes within a population.
What is Population Distribution?
Population distribution is the way in which people are spread out over an area.
Which year was the last official census taken in Jamaica?
July of 2011
Tommy is a 24 year male from Claremont, St.Ann. He has recently decided to move to Kingston within the next year. Which of the following would MOST LIKELY be the reason as to why he wants to migrate?
A. Relief
B. Water Supply
C. Socio-Economic opportunites
C. Socio-Economic opportunites
Where there is clustering of dots a map, that area is send to be?
densly populated
What is Population Density?
Population density is the number of people living in a square kilometer (km2) of the country.
Which country has 18.5% of the world's total population?
China
A dot map of the caribbean illustrating population distribution would show which part of the caribbean beeing densly populated?
The Greater Antilles & Central America.
Darkers shades on a chloropleth map is used to depict places with
high population desnities.