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G Deciphering the Map
Look at the population density map of Massachusetts and answer the questions below.

Essex
Franklin
Middlesex
Worcester Suffolk
Hampshire
(Part of Norfolk)
Berkshire
Hampden Norfolk

Plymouth
Bristol
Over 1500
Over 1,500
600-1500
600 - 1,500
200-600 Bamstable
200 - 600
150-200
150 - 200
Less than 150
Less than 150
Population density
Dukes Nantucket
1. What are the most densely populated counties in Massachusetts?
2. In what counties would you be least likely to fi nd cities?
3. The town area of Andover has a population density of 1,007. What counties could it be in?
4. If the town area of Billerica is about 68 square kilometres and has 40,243 people in it, what
is its population density?

Let’s Do

Classroom Session
1. Why is it that poor and underdeveloped countries like South Sudan and Burundi have
extremely high population growth rates while highly developed nations like Japan and Spain
have very low and even negative population growth rates? Why is the population growing
rapidly in countries that cannot provide basic necessities to their existing population? Have a
discussion in class on this topic.
2. An international food-relief agency has asked you to prepare a report to help make the food
distribution in a certain area threatened by famine, more effi cient, for example, in Odisha. Will
you use maps of population distribution (dot maps)? What role will the scale play in your
presentation? Prepare a report as per the population distribution. Take help from the
Internet.

Think and Do
Create a booklet. Without looking through the chapter, write everything you can remember
using a blue or black pen, then look through the chapter and add any extra details in red.

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