1. Human Geography Lesson 1: The World’s People
EQ: How do people adapt to their environment?
3B , 4B , 4C , 4D , 7A , 7B , 15E , 18A , 22A

2. 3B The student is expected to: pose and answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns for various world regions and countries shown on maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases;
4B The student is expected to: identify and explain the geographic factors responsible for patterns of population in places and regions;
4C The student is expected to: explain ways in which human migration influences the character of places and regions;
4D The student is expected to: identify and locate major physical and human geographic features such as landforms, water bodies, and urban centers of various places and regions;
7A The student is expected to: identify and analyze ways people have adapted to the physical environment in various places and regions;
7B The student is expected to: identify and analyze ways people have modified the physical environment such as mining, irrigation, and transportation infrastructure; and
15E The student is expected to: analyze the similarities and differences among various world societies; and
18A The student is expected to: explain the relationships that exist between societies and their architecture, art, music, and literature;
22A The student is expected to: use social studies terminology correctly;

3. Textbook, pg. 86, Chapter 3, Lesson 1
The World’s People

4. 1800
World population was about 860 million people.
Next 100 Years
Doubled to nearly 1.7 billion people.
2013
Passed 7 billion people.

5. Earth’s Growing Population EQ: What factors contribute to Earth’s constantly rising population?
Death rate: the number of deaths compared to the total number of individuals in a population in a given time. On average, 154,080 people die each day worldwide.
Birthrate: the number of babies born compared to the total number of individuals in a population at a given time. On average, about 215,120 babies are born each day worldwide.
When the Birthrate is larger than the Death rate, population increases.

6. Causes of Population Growth
Falling Death Rate
Availability of Food
Better Health Care
Rising Birthrates
Cleaner Water
Effects
Cultures are Blended and Enriched
Cities Grow and Urbanization Endangers Natural Areas
Resources are Used Quickly
Environments are Polluted

7. Doubling Time
The number of years it takes a population to double in size based on its current growth rate. It can be short or long.
In some parts of Asia and Africa, the doubling time is 25 years or less. Canada, on the other hand, the doubling time of countries with slow growth rates can be more than 75 years.

8. Global Growth Rate is Slowing
Despite the fact that the global population is growing, the rate of growth is gradually slowing. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs predicts that the world’s population will peak at 9 billion by the year After that, the population will begin to decrease.

9. Population Challenges
When the population of an already crowded are continues to grow, serious problems can arise.
Diseases spread quickly
Lack of jobs and work for people
Household live in ongoing poverty
Crime rates spike in large population areas

10. What is the difference between the birthrate and death rate?
Population growth is different in different areas so these problems are more severe than in other places.
What is the difference between the birthrate and death rate?

11. Population Patterns EQ: Why do more people live in some parts of the world than in others?
Some families live in the same town or on the same land for generations. Others people frequently move from place to place.
Why do you think that some people move frequently while others never move or stay in the same area?

12. Where are they located?
Population Distribution: the geographical pattern of where people live on Earth. Population distribution is uneven across the planet. Large population areas occur because of jobs, religion, or government transportation services.
Population Density: the average number of people living within a square mile or a square kilometer. To say that an area is densely populated means the area has a large number of people living within it. Population density for a country is the average for the entire country.

13. Where People are Located
Urban: areas that are densely populated.
Rural areas are sparsely populated.

15. Land Vs. Water
People in habit only a small part of the Earth. Land covers only 30% of Earth’s surface. ½ of that is not usable to Humans. Only 15% of the Earth’s surface is habitable.
Deserts, oceans, and mountaintops are mostly uninhabited.

16. Reasons Why People Settle in an Area
The Main reasons are
Shelter
Food
Water
A way to learn a living
Some people live in cities, which have many places to live and work. Other people make their homes on open glasslands where they build their own shelters, grow their own food, and raise livestock.

17. Give on example of an Urban Area and one example of a Rural Area.

18. Population Movement EQ: What are the causes and effects of human migration?
The populations of different areas change as people move from one area to another. Migration: people moving from one place to another. Emigrate: to leave one’s home to live in another place.
Immigrate: to enter and live in a new country. Refugee: people who flee a country because of violence, war, or persecution.

19. Push and Pull Factors
The reasons for leaving one area and going to another are called push-pull factors. Push factors drive people from an area. Pull factors attract people to an area.
The movement of people from one area to another can affect the land, resources, culture, and economy of an area. Some of these effects are positive, but others can be harmful.

20. Causes of Migration Effects of Migration Human Rights Issues War
Poverty
Lack of Opportunities
Family Issues
Cultures are Blended and Enriched
Resources are Used Quickly
Effects of Migration
Cities Grow and Urbanization Endangers Natural Areas
Environments are polluted

21. Causes of Urbanization
Urbanization: when cities grow larger and spread into surrounding areas. Migration is a primary reason that urbanization occurs.
People move to cities for many reasons.
To find jobs
Business opportunities
Transportation and trade centers
Medical services
Education
Entertainment
Housing
Food sectors

22. Effects of Urbanization
As more people migrate to cities, urban areas become increasingly crowded.
Cities expand
Farmland is turned into homes, apartment buildings, factories, offices, schools, and stores
Loss of farmland means:
Food must be grown further from cities
Adding additional shipping
Increasing pollution
Cities grow into each other
Megalopolis: a huge city or cluster of cities with an extremely large population.

23. Megalopolis
The term megalopolis was coined in 1961 by French geographer Jean Gottmann after he spent two decades in an area of the United States that stretches from New Hampshire to Washington, D.C. In his study, he argued that as population growth increased in the cities in this region, people moved to smaller nearby areas that grew into large suburbs and “merged” with other metropolitan regions in the area.

24. Question:
In your own words, briefly summarize the main reasons people emigrate from their homelands.