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Ch2 population
Question | Answer |
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The study of population is crtical because ? | Their are more people alive now than ever before and population is increasing at a faster rate |
Where is the global population growth found ? | In LCDS that are in stage 2 or 3 |
How do geographers Study population problems? | by studying how people are spread out |
When a country is overpopulated what does it mean? | it has less necistys like food,water or shelter |
Where is the worls population disributed ? | in Population concentrations, sparsely populatied regions and population density. |
2/3 of the worlds population is found where? | east asia, south asia, southeast asia, and europe |
How can clustring be shown ? | on a catogram |
what are some populous countries? | Brazil,Canada, China US, and Russia |
East asia contains ? | East china, Koreans, Japan, Tawian |
How much of the worlds population live in East asia ? | 1/4 |
What is the most populous country in east asia ? | China |
Where is the population clustred in china ? | near the pacific ocean and fertile valleys |
Is east asia rural or urban ? | Rural |
What countries are found in South Asia? | India, Pakistan,Bangladishand the island of Sri Lanka. |
What country is the most populous in south asia? | India |
How much of thw worlds population live in South Asia? | 1/4 |
Where is the population clustred in India ? | around plains of Indus, and the Gangea river, Arabian Sea, and Bay of Bengal. |
Is south asia rural or urban? | Rural |
How much of the Earths population is found in south east asia ? | 1/4 |
What countries are found in Southeast asia ? | Phillippines, Java, Sumatra, Boreno, Papua, and New Guinea |
Where is the population clustred around in the Phillipeans? | Around rivers and fertile valleys and delta Indochina |
What countries are found in Europe ? | from monaco to Russia |
How much of the earths population lives here ? | 1/9 |
Where is the population clustered around? | around the coalfields of england, Germany, and Beligum |
What does europe have to do for food ? | import it |
Is Europe rural or urban? | Urban |
what two countries in the East asia region is urban like europe ? | Japan and South Korea |
What is the largest population concentration in the western hemisphere ? | In North east usa and south east canada |
What are the sparsely populated regions? | Dry lands, wet lands, cold lands, and Hifh lands. |
Why is it impossible to live int he dry lands ? | Area is to dry for farming and not much rain |
what are the 2 largest desert regions found ? | The northern hemasphere and the souther hemasphere . |
What is good about the dry lands? | oil comes from there |
Why dont people live in the wetlands? | the combination of heat and rain depletes nutrients in the soil |
What is the good thing about the wetlands ? | they can grow enough food to feed a large amount of population |
Why do pepole not live in the cold lands ? | very cold and less rain than dry lands |
Why do people not live in the high lands ? | They are and high and steep |
why do people live in the highlands? | they are uncomortable in lower elevation |
What are the 3 types of density? | population density, arthimetic density, and agricultral density |
What do they use arthimetic desnity for ? | to compare conditions in diffrent by total population and total land area |
The higher the physical density ? | the more pressure people place on their land to grow more food |
What if countries have the same physilogical density ? | dosent mean they will produce the same amoutn of food its based off conditions |
Do MCD or LCD have a lower agricultral density ? | MCDs |
Where has the population grew ? | in the natural increase, mortality and fertilaty |
What are the 3 measures demograpers look at ? | CBR, CDR, NIR |
If you subract the 2 .... it gives you the NIR ? | the CBR- CDR |
95 % Of the natural increasse is found where | in the LCDS |
What do they use to measure Fertilty ? | by the total fertilaty rate ( TFR) |
What are the 2 usful ways to measure fertility ? | Infant mortailty rate and Life expectancy |
Where are the highest IMR rates found ? | in the LCDS |
Why is population increasing at difrent rates in diffrent countries ? | because of Demorgraphic transition and world population growth ? |
What was the CBR , CDR, AND NIR in stage 1 ? | CBR: HIGH CDR: HIGH NIR: NO natural increase |
what did people depend on in stage 1 ? | hunting and gathering . |
Why was their an increase in CBR in stage 1 ? | Because of the Agricultral revolution |
How long was until countries started to move into stage 2 ? | 10,000 years |
What was the CBR, CDR AND NIR if stage 2 ? | CBR: HIGH CDR: LOW NIR: HIGH |
Why did MDCS move into stage 2 ? | Because of the Industrial revolution |
What helped the CBR increase and the CDR decrease in stage 2 ? | the imporvement of sanitaion |
What helped LDCS move into stage 2 / | the medical revoultion |
What year did Europe and NA go into the stage 2 ? | 1800s |
What year did the LCDS go into stage 2 ? | 1950 |
What was the CBR\, CDR, NIR ? | CBR: LOW CDR : SAME NIR: MODERATE |
What causes countries to go in to stage 3 ? | a big drop in CBR |
Why does CBR drop in stage 3 ? | because of econmic development and social customs change |
What is the CBR, CDR, AND NIR for satge 4 ? | CBR : LOW CDR:LOW NIR: NONE |
Why do countries move to stage 4 ? | Their are more women working , more money less children, more access to birth control |
Why do countries have a negative NIR ? | Because their cdr exceeds their cbr |
Why do MDCS in stage 4 or 3 have a higher CDR than Lcds in stage 2 ? | because mcds have more older people |
Why do men die younger than women? | they do more risky work |
What is the sex ratio in Lcds ? | their are more men than women |
Whay is cape verde in stage 2 ? | because their long term uncirenty ended in the population |
what helped cape verde go into stage 2 / | anti-malaria vaccines |
Why is chile in stage 3 ? | because the have the gov. family plane, moved to urban areas and CDR went down because of medical technology |
Why is denmark in stage 4 ? | More older people and population is increasing because of imigrants |
Why did the population increase in the 20th century ? | Because most countries were in stage 2 or 3 |
why arent countries in stage 4 yet ? | because of fundamental problems |
Why is japans population going to drop soon ? | because they have a large amount of older people than younger and their rule limits children |
When did the CDR drop in LCDS ? | in the 20 century |
Why might the world face overpopulation ? | malthus on overpopulation , decling birth rates world health rates |
who is thomas Malthus ? | he is an english econmist was one of the first to say that the worlds rate population will outrun food |
How do people grow ? | by geomethically |
How does food ? | arithmeticaly |
what is the first characteristics that make malthus theory / | Mny LCDs have expanded food production but more people |
What is the 2nd characteristicts that make malthus ? | the population is outstripping resources |
What do the critcis say about Malthus theory ? | expanding will fixed and resources |
What resource is following malthus theory ? | Rice |
NIR declines because of ? | either CBR OR CDR |
lCDS have a high demand in what ? | contracepicans |
Low status of women | Affects CBR |
What is disease is found in stage 2-3 ? | pestilence and famine |
What disease is also found in stage 2-3 ? | cholera was around the water pumps |
What disease is comnon in stage 3-4 ? | cardiovascular like heart attack and cancer |
what disease might come back in stage 5 ? | the reemergence of infectiuos disease |
what are the resaon of thr remergance od disease ? | evolution and poverty and travel |
why do lcds have more children / | ecnomic reason |
what happened in stage 1 for england ? | 1066 Normaninvade england population to 6 million |
what happened to england in stage 2 ? | 1750 the cbr and cdr of 40 1800 cbr was 36 cdr was 20 |
what happened in stage 3 ? | cbr droped but population increased to 49 million |
what happened in stage 4 in england ? | has been here since 1970 population grew 3 million |