Question

Favourable factors affecting the population distribution

Answer 1

Answer:

Physical factors that affect population distribution include altitude and latitude, relief, climate, soils, vegetation, water and location ofmineral and energy resources. It is important to note that most of the physical factors influence population distribution only indirectly through climatic conditions.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

1. Physical Factors:

Physical factors that affect population distribution include altitude and latitude, relief, climate, soils, vegetation, water and location of mineral and energy resources. It is important to note that most of the physical factors influence population distribution only indirectly through climatic conditions.Relief features also play an important role in influencing population distribution. The influence of altitude has already been noted. Among the other aspects of relief features which affect human habitation are general topography, slope and aspect. The main concentrations of human population are confined to the areas marked with flat topography. Rugged and undulating topog­raphy restricts the condensation of human population in any area.

Economic, Political and Historical Factors:

Population distribution and density in an area depends to a large extent on the type and scale of economic activities. Same geographic conditions provide different opportunities for people with different types and scale of economic activities. Technological and economic advancement can bring about significant changes in population distribution of an area. For instance, the Prairies of North America offered different opportunities for the Indians with their hunting economy, the nineteenth century ranchers, the later settled agriculturist and finally the modern industrialized and largely urbanized society.

Each stage in economic development was marked with profound changes in population density and distribution in the region. Industrialization and discovery of new sources of minerals and energy resources have, throughout human history, brought about redistribution of population through migration. In the pre-industrial agricultural societies, population distribution often fairly evenly distributed responds to the nature of crops grown and their relationship to physical conditions.

The industrial revolution has resulted in considerable change in population distribution in many parts of the world. Dense population concentration has replaced long established pattern of dispersal and generally even distribution. Initially, sources of energy and mineral resources became the force of industrial growth and population concentration. Improved transport network, growing spatial mobility of labour and increasing trade in the wake of economic and technological advancements have led to decline in the importance of place bound industries.