Chapter 5 Notes

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Chapter 5 Notes
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Studying Population

• We use maps, graphs, population pyramids, and
  statistics to study population
• Demographers collect stats about populations and
  use them o predict what will happen in the future
  
• These statistics show us three different facts
  about population
• Population Density

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Studying Population

• Population Distribution
• Shows us that people are unevenly spread
  throughout the earth
• Ties in with Human-Environment Interaction Theme
• Why is the world so unevenly distributed?
• Population Change
• Three Factors to population change
• Birthrate Amount of people born per every 1000
  people
• Deathrate Amount of die born per every 1000
  people
• Migration process of moving from one place to
  another
• Emmigrants People who leave a country
• Immigrants - People who come to a country

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Studying Culture

• People learn culture from their parents peers
• Cultural traits are activities behaviors
  specific to that culture
• Examples
• Pre-arranged marriages
• Chinese eat with chopsticks
• Cultural regions are a specific area which the
  people there have a shared culture

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Culture Change

• Culture is always changing
• Three main ways a culture changes
• Assimilation
• To become part of a dominant culture and to
  absorb the culture to where you move
• Acculturation
• To change as a result of having contact between
  cultures
• Diffusion
• Information or ideas spreading throughout a
  culture or society

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Geography of Languages

• Cultures main way of communication
• Different languages are spoken in specific
  regions of the earth
• Around 3,000-6,500 languages are spoken around
  the world today
• Languages are grouped into different families
  according to origin
• English is the most widespread language in the
  world

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Geography of Religion

• Religion binds a culture together and gives
  meaning to peoples lives
• Three types of religion
• Ethnic Religion
• Religion that focuses on 1 culture and has not
  spread to others
• Example - Judaism
• Animist Religions
• People believe in the presence of the spirits and
  of nature
• Example - Paganism
• Universalizing Religions
• Religions that have followers all over the world
• Example - Christianity