Starter quiz
- What does population mean?
- The type of animals in a country.
- The amount of land in a city.
- The total number of people living in an area. ✓
- The number of houses in a town.
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- What is population distribution?
- The total number of people in the world.
- How people are spread out across a country or region. ✓
- The number of babies born each year.
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- What is the current world population approximately?
- 1 billion
- 5 million
- 8 billion ✓
- 30 thousand
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- Which continent has the largest population?
- Europe
- Asia ✓
- Africa
- North America
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- Which country has the largest population in the world?
- China
- USA
- Russia
- India ✓
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- Why is it helpful to use maps when studying population?
- To track the weather.
- To find the best places to live.
- To show the distribution of population across different areas. ✓
- To calculate the number of animals in an area.
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Exit quiz
- What does GIS stand for?
- Global Information Studies
- Global Industrial Survey
- Geographic Information System ✓
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- Which of the following factors affect population distribution?
- Climate and natural resources
- Political and economic opportunities
- Availability of water
- All of the above ✓
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- How can GIS help in analysing population distribution?
- It replaces the need for population censuses.
- It allows us to visualise and map population patterns. ✓
- It predicts exact future population numbers.
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- Which region has the highest population density?
- South Asia ✓
- Australia
- The Amazon Rainforest
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Key learning points
- A GIS allows us to store and display data on a digital map.
- A GIS can be used to investigate population data within a country and across the world.
- Maps of the world's ‘human footprint’ show us information on where people live and where has been impacted by humans.
- GIS can be used to help explain the world’s human footprint.
Common misconception
GIS web maps are only a tool for visualising geographical patterns in data; they can't help us explain geographical patterns.
GIS are a useful tool to visualise, interpret and analyse geographical data. This means they can be used to explain geographical patterns by comparing different layers.
Keywords
Geographic information system - a GIS (geographic information system) is a computer mapping system that captures, and displays geographic data to help understand spatial patterns.
Population distribution - describes how the people in a population are spread out across an area
Population density - the number of people living in a defined area, e.g. 300 people per square kilometre.
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