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Ch.2 Population
Introduction
Know the following key terms:
demography, overpopulation
Give 3 reasons why the study of population is important
1.
More people live now
than any time in history
2.
World pop. Increased
faster than before since
1950s
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What is an MDC? MORE DEVELOPED COUNTRY
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What is an LDC? LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRY
3.
Almost all pop. Growth is
in LDCs
(HIGHER POPULATION)
Key Issue 1
Question (First Bold Maroon Heading):
WHERE IS THE WORLD’S POPULATION DISTRIBUTED
Answers (Bullet points): POPULATION CONCENTRATIONS
SPARSELY POPULATED REGIONS
POPULATION DENSITY
Answer 1 (First Bold Orange Heading):
POPULATION CONCENTRATIONS
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How many of Earth’s people live in four regions?
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Which two continents have 2/3 of the world’s people?
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Identify 3 similarities between the four most populated regions. NEAR WATER, LOW ELEVATIONS
WITH GOOD SOIL & CLIMATE, IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
2/3 OF ALL PEOPLE
Answer 1 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings) EAST ASIA
 How many of the world’s people live here? 1/5 OF ALL PEOPLE
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List 3 countries in this region: CHINA, JAPAN, NORTH KOREA
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Of the people here, 5/6 of them live in which country? CHINA
Where are they clustered in this country? ON THE COAST
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Compare urban & rural populations in China to those in Japan & Korea.
Answer 1 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings) SOUTH ASIA
 How many of the world’s people live here? 1/5 OF ALL PEOPLE
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List 3 countries in this region: INDIA, BANGLADESH, NEPAL
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Of the people here, 3/4 of them live in which country? Where are they clustered in this country?
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Compare urban & rural populations in South Asia. MOSTLY R0URAL
Answer 1 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings) SOUTHEAST ASIA
 How many of the world’s people live here? HALF A BILLION PEOPLE
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List 3 countries in this region: Indonesia, Philippines, Borneo
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Of the people here, most live in which two countries? INDONESIA & THE PHILIPPINES
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Compare urban & rural populations in Southeast Asia.
Answer 1 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings) EUROPE
 How many of the world’s people live here? 1/9 OF ALL PEOPLE
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List 3 countries in this region: GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, BELGIUM
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Compare urban & rural populations in Europe. MOSTLY URBAN
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Of the people here, the highest concentrations live where? Why?
Answer 1 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings)
OTHER POPULATION CLUSTERS
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The largest population cluster in the Western Hemisphere is in the NE USA & SE CANADA
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2% of the world population lives in this region __________________
Half of that is in this country __________________
List the 5 areas of population concentration in the world:
1 EAST ASIA
2 SOUTH ASIA 3 SOUTHEAST ASIA
Answer 2 (Next Bold Orange Heading):
4 EUROPE
5 OTHER
POPULATION
CLUSTERS
SPARSELY POPULATED REGIONS
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What is the ecumene?
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Has it increased or decreased over time? INCREASED
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Compare the 2 maps on pg. 48. What type of climate do most people live in? Why?
Answer 2 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings)
DRY LANDS
Answer 2 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings)
WET LANDS
Answer 2 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings)
COLD LANDS
Answer 2 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings)
HIGH LANDS
List the 4 areas of sparsely populated regions of the world:
Answer 3 (Next Bold Orange Heading):
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DRY, WET, COLD, HIGH
POPULATION DENSITY
Measures of density help geographers describe the distribution of people compared to AVAILABLE
RESOURCES
Answer 3 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings) ARITHMETIC DENSITY
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What does arithmetic density enable geographers to compare?
Answer 3 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings) PHYSIOLOGICAL DENSITY
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The ______________ the physiological density, the greater the pressure people may place on
the land to produce enough food.
What does physiological density enable geographers to see?
Answer 3 Explained (Smaller Maroon Headings) AGRICULTURAL DENSITY
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What does agricultural density enable geographers to account for?
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To see the relationship between population and resources, you should look at
________________ density & ___________________ density.
Key Issue 2
Question (Bold Maroon Heading):
Answers (Bullet points):
WHERE HAS THE WORLD’S POPULATION INCREASED?
NATURAL INCREASE
FERTILITY
MORTALITY
 Population increases ____________ where more people are born than die
 Population increases ____________ where the number of births exceeds the number of deaths by
a small margin
 Population _____________ where deaths outnumber births
 Crude means what? VIEWING SOCIETY AS A WHOLE / AVERAGE
Answer 1 (First Bold Orange Heading):
NATURAL INCREASE
Know the following key terms: Crude Birth Rate (CBR), Crude Death Rate (CDR), Natural Increase Rate (NIR/RNI),
doubling time
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Very small changes in the NIR dramatically affect the size of the population, because the base
population from which we derive the percentage is so high.
The NIR affects the doubling time
NIR 2.2%
doubling time=35 years
NIR 1.0%
doubling time=70 years
100% of the natural increase is clustered in LDC’s (NIR is +2.0% in Africa, Asia & Latin America, but
negative in Europe)
Using Fig. 2-7 on pg. 54, name a large region that has NIR at 2.0 or above _________________
Using Fig. 2-7 on pg. 54, name a large region that has NIR at 1.0 to 1.9 _________________
Using Fig. 2-7 on pg. 54, name a large region that has NIR at 0.0 to 0.9 _________________
Using Fig. 2-7 on pg. 54, name a large region that has NIR below 0
_________________
Answer 2 (Next Bold Orange Heading):
FERTILITY
Know the following key term: total fertility rate (TFR)
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Using Fig. 2-8 on pg. 55, name the region that has the highest CBR _________________
Using Fig. 2-8 on pg. 55, name the region that has the lowest CBR _________________
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The TFR for the world is 2.7. For LDC’s it is 6+, for MDC’s it is 2-.
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Using Fig. 2-9 on pg. 55, name the region that has the highest TFR _________________
Using Fig. 2-9 on pg. 55, name the region that has the lowest TFR _________________
Answer 3 (Next Bold Orange Heading):
Answer 3 Summary
MORTALITY
Know the following key terms: infant mortality rate (IMR), life expectancy
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IMR reflects a country’s health-care system.
Using Fig. 2-10 on pg. 56, name the region that has the highest IMR _________________
Using Fig. 2-10 on pg. 56, name the regions that have the lowest IMR _________________
Rubenstein pg. 57
MDC’s have:
_______________ rates of natural increase
_______________ crude birth rates
_______________ total fertility rates
_______________ infant mortality rates
_______________ avg. life expectancy
_______________ crude death rates
LDC’s have:
_______________ rates of natural increase
_______________ crude birth rates
_______________ total fertility rates
_______________ infant mortality rates
_______________ avg. life expectancy
_______________ crude death rates