AP Human Geography Pick up the article on your way in. Read and answer the questions, but don’t write on it! Put your homework and your binder on your desk. I will come around and check your binder.
Vocab I forgot to include in your other lessons Oops…
Cartograms!
Cartograms distort maps based on statistics (countries with more of something are bigger)
Ecumene The permanently heavily inhabited parts of the earth
GNP per capita How would you calculate GDP per capita?
GDP and GNP GDP per capita— Gross Domestic Product per capita Value of all goods and services in a country per person Total value of goods/population GNP per capita— Gross national value per capita Basically the same thing
Standard of Living Level of wealth, comfort, and quality of life (education, health care, etc) in an area USA not #1!
LDC and MDC LDC—Less Developed Country MDC—More developed country
Rule of 70 70/rate of natural increase = doubling time Doubling time—How long it will take country to double it’s population Ukraine= -.4 (my bad) USA=.4 Niger=3.9
Overpopulation Youth bulge—big # of kids Carrying Capacity— Maximum number of people an area can sustain Overpopulation— Exceeding your carrying capacity
Pictionary! GDP GDP per capita Carrying Capacity Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Rate of natural increase LDC MDC Malthus Neo-Malthusian Pro-Natalist Policy Anti-natalist policy One child policy Ageing/greying population Ecumene Youth bulge Infant mortality rate Literacy rate Census Physiological Population Density Arithmetic population density