Spiral Entry: How might the physical features of a place affect its population? How might economic factors affect the population of a place?

Population Unit 4 – Human Geography

Demography The study of populations It is used to learn statistics within the population of certain areas of the world

What all affects population growth? Possible answers:

Demographic Transition Model: Birthrate – the number of births per year for every 1,000 people Death rate – the number of deaths per year for every 1,000 people Natural increase – growth rate of a population (difference between an area’s birth rate and death rate) Migration – movement of people from place to place Demographic transition – the model that uses birthrates and death rates to show how populations in countries or regions change over time Doubling time – the number of years it takes a population to double in size

Model Picture

Population Pyramids

Less developed nations vs more developed nations

Challenges to population growth? Food Resources Water Housing Clothing *Age ***Population Distribution – How is this a problem?

Distribution vs. density Population Distribution: the variations in population that occur across a country, a continent, or the world Population Density: the average number of people living on a square mile or square kilometer of land

Do you see any issues?

Pg 86-90 Come up with a Proposal to resolve the population problems Title of your plan Details of your strategy Which countries do you think your plan would help? Is it a realistic option for our world? Come up with bullet points as a group, then Write a letter to the United Nations laying out your proposal

Proposals 2nd Period: Move people to other places, decrease births for families (limit per household), give food to each family equalize amount of food Limit amount of kids families can have, cremate people instead of burying for crop fertilizer, expand farm lands, eliminate grave yards Drug usage, help with transportation of food/water, help out their economy from more developed nations Food/water/ clothes donations, mission trips, move to other areas with other job opportunities, plant more crops in other places Importing food/water, make larger groups of buildings, stop wars/drug usage, help educate, ride bikes instead of cars, spread people out (resources), make more homeless shelters/foster homes, pay more attention to lower class, help with taxes/jobs

Proposals 3rd Period: Limit resources, increase job opportunities, raise house prices in certain areas, raise taxes in those areas Countries: China, India, some of East Coast U.S. Send people away (cruises to Antarctica), Limit supplies Countries: China, Europe, Japan Share land with other places, world trade increase, abundant resources are free, share resources, store resources for future use India, China, Europe Make friends with other nations, trade, working together, halting more man-made things Around Asia & Eastern Area Sharing – Import more goods, ignore past differences, forge better political relationships, form together to help one another and make compromises to help others Mexico, Canada, U.S., England

Proposals 7th Period: Operation FedEx – ship off people to Australia Operation Management – Over 65 = executed (only when population becomes unstable)… 40-64 = sent to Antarctica… Sex prohibition (castration) Raise the rate of living – raise insurance/home costs and prices of most everything… making poor people leave Average – only 2 kids per family (cameras in living room)… 3rd kid shipped to island? (chosen by parents, or they get shipped off)

Proposals 8th Period: Excavation – digging under ground to build living centers under ground... Build tall apartment buildings Cameron Effect – send people to random islands… execute people Limit on Land – limit on land you can own, divide country up evenly among people and encourage living together, allowing more people to have home Resolving Problems – Build wall, build island for over flow population Downsize – cut down water, food, and resources… help distribute to other countries that don’t have as much Ways to solve over population – grow more food, limit the amount of people that want to move there, try to gain more land, limit amount of children a woman can have, limit the amount of land each family gets