Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Birth Rate, Urban Sprawl, Mortality Rate
28 Mar 2018
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Today, the population is estimated to be 35 million. At the time of the confederation, the population was 3. 4 million. Only 25% of the countries have a population higher than canada. Now it"s around 36 million population (10x since confederation) Population density: the number of people divided by the land area. Ca(cid:374)ada"s physiologi(cid:272)al de(cid:374)sity (cid:894)a(cid:373)ou(cid:374)t of arable land per person) is similar to that of the u. s. Arable land: the land you might expect to be settled, might expect people to live on (this is based on landscape, climate) by doing this, we are similar to the us. The dispersal of people within a geographic area. Ca(cid:374)ada"s populatio(cid:374) distri(cid:271)ution is one of the most unevenly dispersed in the world. The majority of canadians (75%) live within 100 km of the us border; the inhabited part of an area is referred to as an ecumene (inhabited land) This zone lies within the great lakes st. lawrence lowlands.
