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Population Geography
• Demography
• The study of population
– Number of people in each region
– Population growth and decline rates
– Spatial distribution and movement
of people
• Crude death rate
• CDR is the number of deaths
annually per 1000 people
• Crude birth Rate
• CBR is the number of births
annually per 1000 people
• CBR - CDR
• Growth rate
• Immigration
• Influx of people from foreign
countries.
• Emigration
• To move away from one’s
original country.
• Doubling Time
• Time it takes for population to
double.
• Population Pyramid
• Graph showing % of males and
females in the population at
each age range.
• Population density
• Carrying Capacity
• Shows how heavily or sparsely
an area is populated.
• The ability of land to produce
food and resources to support
the population.
• Kinds of Migration
– Forced
– Voluntary
– Impelled
• Push Factor
• Reasons to make someone
migrate away from their
homeland.
• Pull Factor
• Reasons for someone to
move to a new land.
• Immigration Quotas
• Demographic transition
• Maximum number of
immigrants allowed into a
country.
• Pattern of change
accompanied by
industrialization.
• Population explosion is
stage 2 & 3. Birthrates out
do death rates.
Ex: Mexico and Kenya
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The Whole World As 100 People
If we could shrink the earth’s population
to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing ratios remaining the same, it would look like
this:
There would be
57 Asians,
21 Europeans,
14 people from the Western Hemisphere (north and south,)
8 Africans.
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white and 30 white
70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual, 11 homosexual
59% of the entire world’s wealth would be in the hands
of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
One would be near death; one would be near birth
Only one would have a college education
One would own a computer.
When one considers our world from such a compressed
perspective, the need for both acceptance and
understanding becomes very evident.
How do American
consumption
patterns affect people
and the planet?
Consumerism
Developed Countries
Developing Countries
Gross Domestic Product
is one of the measures of national income
and output for a given country's economy.
GDP is defined as the total market value of
all final goods and services produced within
the country in a given period of time (usually
a calendar year).
Per Capita
It is usually used in the field of
statistics to indicate the average
per person for any given
concern, such as income, crime
rate, etc.
Participate in a Discussion of Consumption Patterns
You will take part in a discussion of consumption patterns around the
world. For each question, your group will play the part of either a
developed country or a developing country.
Guidelines for Discussing Each Question
Follow these steps to discuss each question below:
• In your group, talk about the question from your country’s
perspective.
• Alternate the role of Presenter within your group. Each Presenter
will represent your group’s opinion during the discussion of one of
the questions.
• Stand up when speaking.
• Refer to the previous speaker by saying, “(Name of previous
speaker),
our group agrees/disagrees with you because…”
• Support your argument with at least one piece of evidence from the
reading or the cartogram.
• Before you sit down, call on the next Presenter by name.
Discussion Questions
Question 1 (Section 7.3)
How does your country feel about the food consumption patterns
represented on the cartogram? Why?
Question 2 (Section 7.4)
How does your country feel about the oil consumption patterns
represented on the cartogram? Why?
Question 3 (Section 7.5)
How does your country feel about the personal computer consumption
patterns represented on the cartogram? Why?
Question 4 (Section 7.6)
How does your country feel about the GDP patterns represented on
the
cartogram? Why? How does this cartogram and the reading help
explain
the consumption patterns seen on the first three cartograms?
Information Master 7 Discussion Guidelines
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