Earth`s Human geography

Earth`s human geography

Population

What is population?

• The world`s Population, or total number of people, lives in uneven clusters on Earth`s surface.

• Demography is the science that tries to explain how population change and why population distribution is uneven.

• Population distribution is the way the population is spread out over area.

• Example: People like to live where water is easily available to them.

VOCABULARY BUILDER

• Cluster (a group of something)

• The clown carried a cluster of ballons

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Multiple Choice

See a map of Egypt. Where do you think more people live in that Country?

• On the West side

• On the East side

Multiple Choice

We conclude that the population distribution in Egypt is

• Even

• Uneven

How crowded or Empty?

If you take tke population of an area and divide it by the size of that area in square miles or square kilomenters you can get the sense of how crowded or empty that area is?

Population density

• The number of people per square mile or square kilometeris called Population density.

• Population density differs from population distribution, however because it gives an average number of people for an area. Population distribution gives actual number of people for an area.

Multiple Choice

What type of number does population density describe to us?

• Actual

• Integers

• Average

• Just big numbers

VOCABULARY BUILDER

Vary (to differ widely)

The number of students in a class may vary from one school to another

Multiple Choice

Which has higher population density

• City

• Countryside

Population growth

• Population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a population

• Population growth depends on the birthrate and the death rate

• The birthrate is the number of live births each year per 1000 people

• The death rate is the number of deaths each year per 1000 people.

VOCABULARY BUILDER

• Method ( a way doing something)

• His cleaning method helped him finish in half of time.

• Aspect ( appearance of characteristic )

• They considered each aspect of the plan before they began building the house.

Multiple Select

The challenges of population growth are

• No fresh water everywhere

• Faster growth of population than food supply

• Not enough schools for all children

• Earthquakes are becoming more frequent due to the large number of people on the planet

• Rapid population growth affects the environment

Multiple Select

How has the development of modern science affected the recent population growth?

• New farming methods increased the world`s food supply

• The invention of video games contributed to human mental and physical health

• Scientific advances in health and medicine have allowed people to live longer

• The invention of weapons of mass destruction has helped population growth around the world

Multiple Select

To figure out the population density of an area, what two pieces of information do you need?

• Area

• Population growth

• Bithrate

• People number

• Gender structure

Multiple Choice

Effects of lack of jobs, schools, public services and dangers to the environment are thing of

• Low population growth

• Rapid population growth

• High death rate

• Medicine inventions