HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Some positive factors that


attract human settlement  Favourable climate with no extremes of temperature or precipitation levels.


 Flat or gently sloping land that is fertile and easy to build on.


 Enough wealth and levels of development to stimulate industry and jobs.


 Accessibility to coasts and to other highly populated areas.


 Good transport and other infrastructure.


Northern Canada – very sparsely populated  Long, dark and bitterly cold winters discourage human settlement and agriculture.


 Remoteness and few roads make the region inaccessible.


 Human communities are small and scattered. Population growth is low.


Negative factors that discourage human


settlement  Climatic extremes (too hot, too cold, too dry or too wet).


 Steep and infertile land that is difficult to farm or build on. Very high mountains where oxygen levels and low atmospheric pressure make human survival difficult.


 Insufficient wealth or development to stimulate industry or jobs.


 Inaccessibility.  Poor transport and other infrastructure.


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Some densely and sparsely populated regions of the world


Amazon Basin – sparsely populated  Hot, wet rainforest conditions discourage human settlement.


 Infertile soils discourage agriculture.  Despite some in-migration, most of this region is quite inaccessible and contains very few roads or towns.


Population per square kilometre


q


over 1000 100–1000 10–100 1–10


under 1


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