Class Notes 11/8/18

Cultural Landscpe

• Key Issues
• where is the world population disributed
• why is global population increasing
• why does population growth vary among regions
• why do some regions face health threats
• Population Concentrations
• 2/3 of the worlds inhabitants clustered in 4 regions
• east asia 
• southeast asia 
• europe
• south asia
• fertule soil and temprate climate
• near body of water 
• sparsely populated regions 
• humans try to aviod clustering in certain physical enviroments
• dry lands
• wet lands 
• cold lands
• high lands
• places considerd too harsh for occupancy have dimished over time
• population density
• density can be computed in up to three ways for a place
• arithmetic density
• numbers of objects in an area
• physialogical density
• number of people supported by a area
• agricultural density
• number of farmers to arable land
• components of population growth
• measure population change in country and world by three measures
• crude birth rate
• crude death rate
• natural increase rate