Distribution and Densisty
- Created by: ofields755
- Created on: 17-04-16 23:15
View mindmap
- Distribution and Density
- Distribution
- the way in which people spread out across the earth's surface
- uneven
- Changes over a period of time
- shown on a dot map
- Dot maps
- Advantages
- effectively shows the concentration of people
- dot represents a given number of people
- accurate representation of the given location of people
- disadvantages
- Misleading as it suggests, incorrectly the areas which are inhabitant
- difficulty of counting large numbers of dos in order to get a precise value
- Advantages
- density
- the number of people living in a given area, usually a sq km
- shown by a choropleth map
- obtained by dividing the total population of a country by the total area of that country
- choropleth map
- advantages
- easy to read
- disadvantage
- hide concentrations of population within each unit
- difficult to distinguish between different shades
- not suitable for showing total values
- advantages
- Distribution
Comments
No comments have yet been made