Geography 1.3 Where do people live?

The patterns of how people are arranged in an area

• population distribution

• clustered

• population density

• dense populations

Spread over a large area and not grouped together

• Linear

• Peripheal

• Clustered

• Scattered

close together and unevenly distributed over an area

• Linear

• Peripheal

• Clustered

• Scattered

forming a line, which can be straight or wavy

• Linear

• Peripheal

• Clustered

• Scattered

distributed along the outer perimeter of an area

• Linear

• Peripheal

• Clustered

• Scattered

the number of people in a given area

• population density

• population distribution

• region rate

• growth rate

describes high population density—many people crowded together in a given area

• population density

• population distribution

• dense

• sparse

describes low population density—a small number of people scattered over a large area

• population density

• population distribution

• dense

• sparse

an ordering of settlements by size of population

• population density

• population distribution

• settlement hierarchy

• sparse

Identify the type of population distribution in the image.

• clustered

• scattered

• linear

• peripheral