CHAPTER 5 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

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CHAPTER 5HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

• 3 key areas
• 1-population
• 2-cultures
• 3-languages religions

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Human Geography

• Terms
• Demography
• Study of human populations
• Population Density
• of people living per square mile (average)
• Population Distribution
• A study of where most people live
• Why are some areas more crowded than others?
• Reasons---

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4 Great Clusters of people

• 1-East Asia
• 2-South Asia
• 3-Europe
• 4-Eastern part of North America

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3 factors that affect population

• Birth rate
• of births per 1,000 per year
• Death Rate
• of deaths/1000 per year
• Migration Patterns
• Emigrants
• Immigrants--

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Push Pull Factors for Migration

• Push Factors
• What forces people to leave?
• Examples
• War
• Famine
• Drought, floods
• Lack of jobs
• discrimination

• Pull Factors
• What attracts people to different areas?
• Examples
• Jobs
• Food
• Clean air/water
• freedom

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Natural Increases of Population

• Dont take migration into account
• Just looks at birth death rates
• Highest increasesAfrica SW Asia
• Why??
• Lowest increases-US, Europe, Australia, Japan
• Trendsmore than 6 bill people on Earth
• Population grows by 80 mil per year

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3 stages of demographic transition--population
change

• 1st stage
• High birth rates high death rates
• Population?
• Reasons?
• 2nd stage
• High birth rates and lower death rates
• Population?
• Reasons

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3rd stage

• Low birth rates low death rates
• Population?
• Reasons?

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Population Pyramidsgraph of age of populations

• Create a pyramid

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CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

• all the features of a peoples way of life
• Examples
• Language, food, religion, clothing, art,
  architecture, values, technology
• Cultural Traits
• Activities behaviors that people do
• Examplesreading, eating, writing,

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CULTURAL TRAITS OF US

• RELIGION-
• LANGUAGE-
• EDUCATION-
• ECONOMY-
• HOUSING-
• CLOTHING-
• FOOD-
• GOVT-

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How do cultures change?

• Innovation
• New ideasneed to be timesaving, useful
  necessary
• Examples
• Diffusion
• Innovation gets accepted and is spread around
  from person to person, group to group

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How does Diffusion Occur?

• 1-relocation
• 2-communication
• 3-hierarchalfashion music centers spread their
  new trends
• What prevents diffusion?
• Immigration laws, mountains, deserts, lack of
  communication

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Globalization vs. Traditionalism

• Globalization
• Connections between countries increase
• Examples
• Traditionalism
• Following long time practices opposing modern
  technology like separation of cultures ethnic
  groups
• Examples
• Fundamentalism
• Belief in strict principles (religion)
• Examples

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Language

• Means of communicating ideas pass skills
  customs
• 3 types

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Religions

• 3 types
• Animist
• Polytheistic-many gods traditional society
• Ethnic
• Focus on 1 group doesnt spread
• Universalizing
• Wants followers monotheistic1 god use
  missionaries to spread religion to other places