The World Population: Distribution, Density and Growth
A worksheet based on Chapter 2, covering key concepts of world population including distribution, density, growth, migration, and demographic transition. Total: 40 marks.
Section A: One-Word Answers [20 Marks]
Answer the following questions in one or two words.
What term refers to the way people are spaced over the earth's surface?
Who remarked that Asia has "many places where people are few and few place where people are very many"?
What is the ratio between the numbers of people to the size of land called?
Which geographical factor, essential for drinking, bathing, and cooking, is considered the most important for life?
People generally prefer to live on flat plains and what other type of landform?
Section B: True or False [20 Marks]
State whether the following statements are True or False, and briefly explain why.