Unit Two Reading Key Issue One and Two - Greg Elsen | Biblioteka

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Which of the following areas of the world are NOT where the majority of people are clustered?

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All of the following areas are sparsely populated areas EXCEPT for

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This geographic term means land where people have made their permanent home, and to all work areas that are considered occupied and used for agricultural or any other economic purpose.

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There are different types of population densities; arithmetic density is

the number of people who live in a particular region

number of people/total land area

population of world/number of people in a particular country

number of people/open, uninhabited land

number of people square kilometer/total population

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Geographers might characterize as overpopulated a country where

there are too many people according to a standard economic measure of poverty

the population numbers less than one million, but there is concern that the country's natural resources are adequate for only half that number

the population numbers more than 100 million and there is concern about the finite limits of natural resources, although the resources available in the country seem adequate to that population

the population numbers more than one million, and there is an average distribution of population to resources

all of the above are correct