ch.2 population and health Flashcards
four major population clusters
- south east asia
- South Asia
- east asia
- europe
- North America can be called 5th
- core because of resources
where do more people live than in the rest of the world
east asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and europe
India
-does not have money to import food
carogram
- map that shows size of country by population, not by land area
- distorts size of country to show population
most populated coountry
china
russia
largest by land area, but on cartogram map, russia is much smaller than china
japan
contains almost as many people as russia
east asia
- main populated countries are japan, china, and korea
- china in about 1.8 billion people
- popular because of cities and export based area
South Asia
- india 1.6 billion
- almost have all of worlds population in china and india
- other high population countries in South Asia are Sri Lanka, pakistan, and bangladesh
europe
- a more evenly distributed population
- has higher concentration of people living in urban city life
urban vs. rural
europe is urban city life population
- south, east, south east asia mostly rural and farmers
south east asia
- indonesia
- Indonesia contains 13, 677 islands, which all makes up the one Indonesia country
- issues are lack of resources, have capital city, but the biggest problem is communication
North America
could call it the 5th somewhat population clustered region
4 areas where people generally don’t live
- wetland
- dry land
- high lands
- cold land
ecuneme
permament human settlement
- doesnt include people who come and go or conduct research
- no ecuneme in antarctica
dry land
- can’t sustain life
- people don’t avoid hot areas because you can get water there, unlike dry land ( florida is hot, but there is still water)
- difference between hot and dry land is resource of water
- examples of dry land are deserts and egypt
- in egypt, the concentration is extremely high along the nile, no one lives anywhere else in egypt
- much of earths oil comes from dry land like Saudi Arabia
wetland
- too much water, humans can’t survive living in water
- difficult to sustain life
- ## cant grow things on water
cold land
- antarctica, cant sustain life
- too cold is biggest problem
high lands
- not enough oxygen to sustain life
- as you get higher, oxygen level decreases
- exception- people live in Central America, capital city of mexico, one of most densely populated areas in South America is the one exception for living in high lands
3 types of population density
arithemtic
physocoligcal
agricultural
- aproaches to describing distribuion of people
arithmetic density
- total population/ total land area
- not going to tell much except how many people live there
- answers the “where” question (where most people live)
- egypt- arithmetic density is 80 people per sq mile, not a lot
- japan on the otherhand in 1,000 per sq mile
- egypt has overpopulation problem even if statistics show it, the statistics can be misleading
- can be used to compare conditions in different countries because the total population and total land area are easy to obtain
physocological
- number of people supported by arable land
- total population/ arable land
- egypt- 2,296 people/ arable land, overpopulated because not enough resources for the amount of people
- if physcological density is high, most likely overpopulated
- provides insight into relationship between size od population and available resources in region
- compares population to resources
arable land
land that can be farmed
agricultural density
- ratio of number of farmers to arable land
- number gives us indicator if its a more developed or less developed country
- the two types of agriculture are commerical and substance agriculture
- high agricultural density is a ldc because need more farmers to farm the land
- low agric. density is mdc because they can run more efficiently with less farmers because of technology
- because of technology, plants grow faster in mdc than in ldc
- technology is the game changer, no tech, by hand, which is substance farming and takes more people and longer.
- measures economic efficiency of food production