Theme 2 Flashcards
Demography
The study of population. places, people, events
ex: age, sex education, nationality, ethnicity ect.
Population geography
focuses on the number, composition and distribution of human beings on the earth’s surface.
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Distribution
the arrangement of locations on the earth’s surface where people live.
Dot map
is used to display population on a map, each dot representing a certain amount of people.
Population Density
The number of people that live in area.
Arithmetic density
A total number of people divided by total land area
ex: USA’s arithmetic density is 32 people per square kilometer.
Physiological population density
divides the amount people by square kilometers of land suited for agriculture. Determines the pressure that will be put on the land to produce food.
ex. Egypt is mostly desert which puts lots of pressure on the arable land causing the country to have a high physiological density.
Agriculture density
average land farmed by each farmer
ex: more developed countries have lower agricultural density.
Overpopulation
too many people for the land to support.
Carrying capacity
the number of people an area of land can support
sustainability
the principal that everything humans need for their survival and well-being depends on our natural environment
Crude birth rate
of people born in a year per 1000 people
CDR drude death rate
of people die in a year per 1000 people
NIR natural increase rate or (CBR_CDR)
percent population increase per year
equation :CBR-CDR=NIR
IMR(infant mortality rate)
infants who die per 1000 infants
TFR(total fertility rate)
average # of children a woman chooses to have
Doubling time
The time it takes to double an areas population
Population Pyramid
a way to analyze population that represents age and sex composition. The shape differs depending on the distribution of males and females at each age level.
ex: A population pyramid from Afghanistan starts out wide at the bottom to represent the age group of 0-5 and the pyramid gets narrower as the age gets higher.
Agriculture revolution
The advancement of agriculture technology that allowed larger populations to survive because there was more food.
Industrial Revolution
In the early 1800s to 1900s brought major improvements in technology that created an unprecedented amount of wealth.
Zero population growth
A goal of leveling the worlds population so it is able to sustain all of it’s inhabitants .
Thomas Malthus
first person to note that the worlds population was growing faster than the food Supply needed to sustain it.