Chapter 2: Population and Health
Key Issue #1: Where is the World’s Population Distributed?
Rubenstein, pages 44‐49
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INTRODUCTION
1. Complete: At a local
, geographers find that overpopulation is a threat in some
of the world but not in others because some
between people and
have a favorable balance
whereas others do not. Further the
regions with the most people are not necessarily the regions with the unfavorable balance.
2. How do geographers display the concentration of population?
POPULATION CONCENTRATIONS
3. There are four major population concentrations, as well as two smaller concentrations, identified in the text.
Shade and label these highly and emerging clusters on the map provided.
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4. Complete the chart below, listing significant characteristics, facts, features, and countries involved in each
population concentration. Circle the two secondary concentrations.
EAST ASIA
SOUTH ASIA
SOUTHEAST ASIA
EUROPE
OTHER CLUSTERS
Pause & Reflect:
Why isn’t North America one of the four major population clusters?
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5. List the four sparsely populated lands on earth in the chart and then using the map on page 50 sketch out the
areas showing non‐ecumene and very sparsely populated lands. Identify larger areas on the map with terms
from the chart:
Sparsely Populated
Reasons ‐ inhospitable for human occupation
Regions
POPULATION DENSITY
6. Using the maps on page 48 & 49 name five countries other than Egypt that has high physiological and
agricultural densities.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Pause & Reflect:
Name a country other than Egypt that has high physiological and agricultural densities.
Chapter 2: Population
Key Issue #2: Why is Global Population Increasing?
Rubenstein, pages 50‐55
COMPONENTS of POPULATION GROWTH
1. What is the current NIR?
2. What year did global NIR peak, and what was it?
3. Approximately how many people are added to the world’s population annually?
4. Why has the number of people annually added to the population been slower to drop than the NIR?
5. In what world regions is most growth occurring?
Pause & Reflect:
The United States has an NIR of 0.6. Does that mean the doubling time is more than 54 years? Explain.
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6. What is the global average TFR?
7. What are the rates and locations of the global “highs and lows” in TFR?
Pause & Reflect:
How does the TFR in your family compare to the overall figure in North America?
9. How are these mortality rates distributed globally, in terms of developed and developing nations?
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POPULATION STRUCTURE
Website: http://populationpyramid.net/
10. The shape of a population pyramid is primarily determined by what demographic rate?
11. What does the “graying” of a population refer to?
12. What types of countries/regions are likely to have more males than females?
13. Using the pyramids on pg. 54 compare Naples, FL to Laredo, TX.
14. Can you name a community that might have more males than females?
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Be prepared to discuss these questions from article and video
Article:
http://www.familycare.org/special‐interest/if‐the‐world‐were‐a‐village‐of‐100‐people/
Video of the Miniature Earth Project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4639vev1Rw
1. After reading the article and watching the video, explain how the current trends in population change will
change by the year 2020? 2050?
2. How might this impact you and America (especially in terms of politics)?
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