3RD YEAR-WEEK 2

READ PAGES 4 AND 5- DISTRIBUTION AND DENSITY

1) MAKE A LIST OF VOCABULARY AND LOOK UP THEM IN THE DICTIONARY. SOME WORDS THAT
SHOULD BE INCLUDED ARE
UNEVEN: different in quality
EVENLY: If you say something evenly, you speak without showing emotion in your voice.
SPARSELY: When there is only a few amount of something/someone spread over a large area
DENSELY: When an area is densely populated it has a lot of things together in the same place.
SPREAD OUT: a group is in different places across a larger area.
CHOROPLETH:  a map that uses graded different colors in
areas on the map in order to indicate the average values of some property or quantity in those area
DOT: a small round mark
SQUARE KILOMETRE:
FOOTHILLS: a low mountain or low hill at the bottom of a larger mountain or range of mountains
RUGGED:  wild and not even; not easy to travel over
SILT: sand or soil that is carried along by flowing water and then dropped.
LEACHING: When a chemical substance , it is removed by the action of water passing through
the material
PORTS: a town by the sea or by a river that has a harbor

ANSWER
1. WHAT DOES “DISTRIBUTION” DESCRIBE?
Distribution describes the way which people are spread out across de earth surface.
2. WHAT DOES “SPARSELY POPULATED AREA” MEAN?
A population distribution is usually show in a dot map. When an area is very concentrated (of people) in the map it
appears with a lot of dots. And when the area has only a few people living there it has a few dots, and that is called a
sparsely populated area.
3. WHAT DOES “DENSITY” MEAN?
Density means the number of people living in a giving area (usually in a square kilometer).
4. HOW IS POPULATION DENSITY CALCULATED?
It is calculated by dividing the total population of a place by its area.
5. THE PATTERNS OF DISTRIBUTION AND DENSITY ARE AFFECTED BY physical FACTORS (SUCH AS
relief , climate , vegetation , soils , natural resources , AND water supplies) AND human FACTORS (SUCH AS
economic , political AND social)

2) ANSWER: WHAT DOES A DOT MAP DESCRIBE?

A dot map describes which areas of the earth are very concentrated of people and which areas have only a few people
living there (sparsely populated area). In concentrated places there are lots of dots and in the sparsely places only a few
dots.
3) ANSWER: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE WITH A CHOROPLETH MAP (FIGURE 1.2)?
The difference is that choropleth map shows only generalizations and tends to hide the concentrations, and a dot map
shows the concentration and the sparsely areas.
4) LOOK AT FIGURE 1.3: THESE FACTORS CAN MAKE AN AREA DENSELY OR SPARSELY POPULATED.
COMPLETE THE CHART WITH THE REASONS THAT MAKE AN AREA DENSELY OR SPARSELY
POPULATED
RELIEF Flat plains and low-lying undulated areas, broad river valleys and also the
DENSELY foothills of active volcanoes

SPARSELY High, rugged mountains and Worn-down shield lands

 Distributed rainfall with no temperature extremes, areas with high sunshine
DENSELY totals or heavy snowfall for tourism, seasonal monsoon rainfall
CLIMATE
Limited annual rainfall, low annual temperatures, high annual humidity and
SPARSELY unreliable seasonal rainfall

Grassland
DENSELY

VEGETATION
Forests
SPARSELY

Deep fertile slit left by rivers and volcanic soils.

DENSELY

SOIL
Thin soils in mountainous and glaciated places.
SPARSELY

P Minerals and energy supplies.

DENSELY
H NATURAL
Y RESOURCES Lacking minerals and lacking energy supplies.
SPARSELY
S
I Reliable supplies.
DENSELY
C
WATER
A SUPPLY Unreliable supplies
L SPARSELY

F
Gaps through mountains and confluences valleys.
A DENSELY
C NATURAL
T ROUTES Mountain barrier
SPARSELY
O
R Government investments. New towns. Reclamation of lands.
DENSELY

POLITICAL
Lack of government development. Depopulation of rural and old industrial areas.
SPARSELY Loss of lands.

Better housing opportunities. Education, health facilities, entertainment.

DENSELY Retirement areas.
SOCIAL
Poor housing opportunities. Limited education, health facilities entertainment.
SPARSELY Poor facilities for retirement.

Ports. Good roads, railways and airports. Industrial areas. Development of

DENSELY tourism. Money available for new high-tech industries.
ECONOMIC
Limited facilities ports. Poor transports links. Lack of industrials developments.
SPARSELY Lack of tourist development. Lack of money for new investments.

5) LOOK UP THIS INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

TOTAL POPULATION OF ARGENTINA (LAST CENSUS): 45,487,000
AREA OF ARGENTINA: 2,780,400 km-16-40

AREA OF BS AS: 307,571 km

POPULATION IN BS AS: 15,257,673
FORMULA TO CALCULATE DENSITY: to calculate density you need to divide the total population of a place by its
area.

6) WITH THE NUBERS FOUND, ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

1-WHAT IS THE DENSITY OF POPULATION IN ARGENTINA? WHAT IS THE DENSITY IN BS AS?
Argentina´s population density: 16, 359 876 276 794 71 / 16-40
BS AS population density: 49,606 994 807 702 94 / 49-60

2-ARGENTINA IS A COUNTRY WITH A LOW DENSITY OF POPULATION, HOWEVER, IT IS

CONCENTRATED IN SOME PLACES SUCH AS Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Misiones, Tucuman, Mendoza, etc.