Social Studies 9 (May 25 – May 31)

 Canada’s People

1-           What is the archipelago effect?

2-           What does population density mean?

3-           How do we calculate Population density?

4-           Why do we calculate population density?

5-           Calculate the population density of the following countries below.

Country                               Population                                        Area                                     Population density

Canada                               33 487 208                                        3 855 081           

United States                     307 212 123                                      3 718 691           

China                                   1 338 612 968                                   3 705 386           

France                                 64 057 792                                        211 208

Afghanistan                       33 609 937                                        250 000

Australia                             21 262 641                                        2 967 893           

6.            Which country has the highest population density?

7.            Which country has the lowest population density?

8.         How can these figures be used? (what can they tell us?)

9.         Which province / territory in Canada do you think has the lowest population density? Why?

10.         Which province / territory in Canada do you think has the highest population density?  Why?