Unit 2 Flashcards
Census
Finding population
Non participation
Causes controversy in the census
Sampling
A method of gathering data yourself (population)
What are the four major population concentrations?
East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe
What does East Asia include?
Eastern China, Islands of Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and the Islands of Taiwan
What does South Asia include?
Indira, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Islands of Sri Lanka. Very rural.
What does South East Asia include?
Mostly islands that lie between Indian and pacific oceans
Eucemene
The amount of Earth’ surface taken up of permanent human settlement
What do Eucemene areas have in common?
Low lying, fertile soil, temperate climate, access to the ocean
Where is population sparse?
Dry lands, wet lands, cold lands, high lands (extremes)
Arithmetic density
The amount of something (people) per given area (people/land)
Physiological density
The amount of people per arable land (people/arable land)
Agricultural density
The number of farmers per arable land (farmers/land)
What does physiological density show us?
The stress of agriculture in a country, how many people need to be fed per unit of land
What does agricultural density show us?
How many people work as farmers in a given area, tech development in a society (if density is high, tech is bad)
Crude Birth Rate
The amount of babies a. Year born for every 1000 people
CBR =
Amount of babies born/(amount of people/1000)
Crude death rate
The total amount of deaths per year per 1000 people
CDR=
Amount of deaths/amount of people divided by 1000
Natural increase rate
The percentage a society grows each year excluding immigration
Doubling time
The amount of years needed in order for the population to double