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    CHAPTER 2

    POPULATION
    WHY IS POPULATION
    IMPORTANT?
    1. Helps explain issues in human
    geography

    2. It’s connected to everything!!!!


    (economics, health, politics….)

    Demography – the scientific study


    of population characteristics

    Census – most important source of


    data for human geographers
    ISSUE #1
    Where is the World’s Population Distributed?
    WHAT ARE THE 10 LARGEST COUNTRIES
    IN THE WORLD (BY POPULATION)?
    MOST POPULATED COUNTRI
    ES IN THE WORLD
    Geographers look at two properties to
    understand global population distribution….
    CONCENTRATION
    DENSITY
    (which areas are clustered, which are
    sparse? )

    2/3 of the world’s population lives in East Asia, Different ways of measuring this:
    South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Arithmetic, Physiological, Agricultural
    Europe
    POPULATION CONCENTRATIONS
    HIGHLY POPULATED
    SPARSELY POPULATED
    1. East Asia

    2. South Asia
    1. Dry Lands
    3. Europe

    4. Southeast Asia
    2. Wet Lands

    - large clusters in North America and Africa?


    3. Cold Lands
    - what does ecumene mean?

    Most typical person


    4. High Lands

    Interesting facts
    Population Distribution – people are not distributed
    uniformly across Earth’s surface
    World Population Cartogram

    Fig. 2-1: This cartogram displays countries by the size of their population rather
    than their land area. (Only countries with 50 million or more people are named.)
    World Growth worldmapper
    In a cartogram, countries are displayed by size of population
    rather than land area
    Ecumene – Seven thousand
    years ago humans occupied
    only a small percentage of
    Earth’s land area, primarily in
    Southwest Asia, Eastern
    Europe, and East Asia. Even
    500 years ago much of North
    America and Asia lay outside
    the ecumene. Still,
    approximately three-fourths
    of the world’s population
    live on only five percent of
    Earth’s surface. The balance
    of Earth’s surface consists of
    oceans (about 71 percent)
    and less intensively
    inhabited land.
    ARITHMETIC
    • Total number of people divided
    by total land area (population
    density)

    • Helps geographers compare


    populations of different parts of
    the world (helps understand
    “where”, people live, but not
    “why” there is uneven
    distribution)
    ARITHMETIC/POPULATION DENSITY
    PHYSIOLOGICAL
    • Number of people supported by
    a unit area of arable land

    • Helps us understand the capacity


    of land to support the
    population

    • The higher the PD, the more


    pressure on the land to produce
    enough food
    PHYSIOLOGICAL DENSITY
    AGRICULTURAL
    • Ratio of the number of farmers
    to the amount of arable land
    •
    Helps explain economic
    differences

    • MDCs have lower AD (why?


    Benefits?)
    AGRICULTURAL DENSITY
    LIST 3 PHYSICAL SIMILARITIES THE
    MOST POPULATED REGIONS SHARE…
    LIST 3 PHYSICAL SIMILARITIES THE
    MOST POPULATED REGIONS SHARE…
    1. Live near ocean and/or river w/ easy
    access to a river

    2. Live in low-lying areas

    3. Fertile soil

    4. Temperate climate

    5. All in the NH, between 10*N and 55*N


    POWERPOINTS
    • Title: Region you have (ex. East • Title: Type of Land you have (ex.
    Asia) Dry Land)

    • Population – fraction of world’s • Description – description of the


    land
    population there
    • Location – where is this type of
    • Map – of that region land found? Lat/Long, regions,
    countries…
    • Concentration – highest/most
    important area of concentration • Map/Picture – of an example of
    that type (ex. Sahara)
    • How do people make their
    living? • Challenges – what problems does
    Answer the following:
    1. Define Arithmetic, Physiological and Agricultural Density

    2. Tell one thing each of those types of density helps geographers


    do/understand….

    3. Who tends to have a lower Agricultural Density, MDCs or LDCs?


    Why?

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