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Worksheet 2.1
1.

ANGOLA

ZAMBIA
Chobe District
(national parks
and forest)

NAMIBIA

Okovango
Delta

3
2

ZIMBABWE
Maun
(tourism) Makgadikgadi
Pans

400

Selebi-Phikwe
(copper, nickel)
400

Kalahari Desert
(with game reserves
and national parks)

Jwaneng
(diamonds)

Gaborone

Francistown

Orapa
(diamonds)

BOTSWANA

300

200
km

Gaborone
Lobatse

SOUTH AFRICA

km
Key

Key

400

More than 10 persons

per square kilometre
1 to 9.9 persons per
square kilometre
Less than 1 person per
square kilometre

400mm annual rainfall

Area with less than
400mm of rain a year
Railway
Tarred road

01_13 IGCSE
GeogSB
Make
a large
copy of the table below. Use the maps to identify the
Barking Dog Art
numbered regions in the table and use the information to complete the
table of factors which explain the areas of different population densities.

Area

Name

Population
Density

Reasons

Very low (less than Low, unreliable rain, high evaporation, sandy mobile soils, Game
01_14key IGCSE
GeogSB
1 person
per km2) Reserves
and National Parks. Only a few roads (all un-tarred).
Barking Dog Art

Wet and swampy. Infested with tsetse flies. Many wild animals.

National Parks and forest infested with tsetse flies. Many wild
animals.

Large salt flats in which nothing can grow. No drinking water.

The remaining areas Low, except for

small urban areas

Dry and lacking transport routes except roads connecting

mining towns to the east.

The eastern side of

the country

More than
mm of
allows farming and
seasonalrivers to flow. Town growth along
tarred
. Electricity is available.

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