GEOGRAPHY TEST Flashcards
What factors work together to creating patterns of where people live?
- natural environment
- level of economic development
- history of a region
What percent of the world’s surface are is water?
71%
What percent of the earth is land surface?
29%
What percent of the earth’s land surface can support human settlement?
Only half of the earth’s land surface
___% of the human population lives on __% of the earth’s land surface
90% of the human population lives on 10% of the earths land surface
Where do people tend to live?
Where there is more water
Where are many of the world’d largest cities developed?
Costal areas.
What’re water ways used for?
Shipping, industry, agriculture
Where do most people work in developing countries?
harvesting natural resources:
-cutting forests
-mining minerals
usually located in rural areas with low population densities
Where do people work in developed countries?
Jobs that provide services:
- retail stores
- hospitals
- banks
Arable:
capable of producing crops
Census
an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
About how many people existed 10 000 years ago after the iceage?
4 million
When the population begin to grow?
Around 1950, because of baby boomers made after world war 2
Through out the first years of the twenty first century, what did the population grow by?
76 million people
