geo study guide

Settlement patterns

Settlement patterns

________ in Canada vary greatly from place to place.

Population distribution

________ is the way people are distributed in their country.

settlement

Sometimes ________ occurs in a line that stretches out for some distance over a landscape.

Population density

________ is an area of 1 km by km squared (km2) that contains a set amount of people after calculated.

Linear patterns

________ exist where economic activities support people and have developed in a line.

There are three types of densities

linear (line), dispersed (scattered), and concentrated (clustered)

Dispersed

patterns typically include areas with an agricultural base because people tend to live on farms that are spread out over a region

Characterized by

low population density/ dispersed population distribution pattern