Chapter 2 Guided Reading
Ch. 2 KI 1 Where is the world’s population distributed? (pgs. 44-53)
Skipped Sections: none
Must know terms: Demography, ecumene, arithmetic density, physiological density, agricultural
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II.
Population Concentrations
a. East Asia
b. South Asia
c. Southeast Asia
d. Europe
e. Other Population Clusters
Sparsely Populated Regions
(note: you do not need a separate heading
for each of the types of sparsely populated
regions, only what the conditions are and
why)
III.
Population Density
a. Arithmetic Density
b. Physiological Density
c. Agricultural Density
Leading Questions
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What do populated places tend to have in common?
For each region you need to know the following:
o What proportion of Earth’s population lives
there?
o Where is the population distributed? (general
and/or specific countries)
o What setting do most people live in?
(urban…rural?)
What is ecumene and what characteristics would cause a
place to lack ecumene?
What are the three ways to measure population density?
For each density type you need the following
information:
o How is the density calculated?
o Where is it high in the world? Low?
o What can it tell geographers about a place?
Ch. 2 KI 2 Where has the world’s population increased? (pgs. 53-55)
Skipped Sections: none
Must know geo terms: Crude birth rate (CBR), Crude death rate (CDR), Natural Increase Rate (NIR), doubling time, total
fertility rate (TFR), Infant mortality rate (IMR), life expectancy
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II.
III.
Natural Increase
Fertility
Mortality
Leading Questions
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What is natural increase and how is it determined?
What is the relationship between doubling time and
natural increase rate? Why does it exist?
Where is natural increase rate high? Low? Why?
What is fertility and how is it measured?
Where are fertility rates the highest? Lowest? Why?
What is mortality and how is it measured?
Where are mortality rates highest and lowest? Why?
How is life expectancy calculated?
Ch. 2 KI 3 Why is population increasing at different rates in different countries? (pg. 56-66)
Skipped Sections: Contemporary Geographic Tools: Spatial Analysis and the Census (62)
Must Know Geo Terms: The Demographic Transition Model (DTM), the Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, The
Medical Revolution, zero population growth (ZPG), population pyramid, dependency ratio, census
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III.
IV.
V.
Demographic Transition Model
a. Stage 1 Low Growth
b. Stage Two: High Growth
c. Stage Three: Moderate Growth
d. Stage 4: Low Growth
e. Figure 2-17
Population Pyramids
a. Age Distribution
b. Sex Ratio
Different Countries in Different Stages of
Demographic Transition
a. Cape Verde: Stage 2
b. Chile: Stage 3
c. Denmark: Stage 4
Japans Population Decline (case study on
pg 65)
Demographic Transition and World
Population Growth
Leading Questions
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What is the demographic transition? What does it measure?
For each stage (I. A-D) you need to include the following:
o What is happening to CBR, CDR, and NIR? Why?
o What major world events took place that would affect
demographics?
o When do countries go through each stage?
What is a population pyramid? How are they constructed?
What is dependency ratio? What can it tell geographers about
a plcae?
What is sex ratio? What can it tell geographers about a plcae?
For each example under III. you must have the following
information:
o Describe the demographic structure of the country.
o Explain why that country is in that stage.
What demographic trends do we see in Japan? Why? What
has been the effect?
Generalize the global demographic trends the DTM predicts.
Why do these trends occur?
Ch. 2 KI 4 Why might the world face an overpopulation problem? (66-73)
Skipped Sections: none
Must Know Geography Terms: Thomas Malthus, epidemiologic transition, pandemic
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III.
Malthus on Overpopulation
a. Contemporary Malthusians
b. Malthus’s Critics
c. Malthus’s Theory and Reality
Declining Birth Rates
a. Reasons for Declining Birth Rates
b. Reducing Births Through Contraceptives
World Health Threats
a. Epidemiologic Transition Stages 1 and 2
b. Epidemiologic Transition Stages 3 and 4
c. Epidemiologic Transition Possible Stage 5
Leading Questions
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Who is Malthus? What did he believe?
What parts of Malthus’s theory do people still believe
today?
What parts of Malthus’s theory do people think
Malthus should have included?
What do critics of Malthus claim?
How have Malthus’s views stood the test of time?
What was right and what was wrong?
What is the Epidemiologic transition?
What occurs in each stage of the transition? Why?
What could the future hold in terms of the
epidemiologic transition?