1. Bell Work (9/14)
Watch the video “The Miniature Earth” and write down anything that you find interesting from the video

2. Population concentrations and densities
Objective: Explain where the world’s population is distributed and why it is distributed in those regions.

3. How much would you get if we divided it by population?

4. How much would you get if we divided it by Gross National Income?

5. Is this fair? How are you going to divide it up within your region?
How can you get more of the cookie?

6. Where are the largest concentrations found?
What conclusions can you draw regarding:
East Asia
South Asia
Europe
North America

7. A World Population Cartogram
Check out this link!

8. What patterns do you see?
What connections might exist with the physical geography in:
East Asia
South Asia
Europe
North America
Africa

9. Ecumene: portion of Earth occupied by permanent human settlement
Is the Earth able to support all the people? Has it always been this way?
Ecumene: portion of Earth occupied by permanent human settlement

10. Note the difference from map to map. What do you start to see more of?

12. Where don’t people live and why?
Too Dry Too Wet Too Cold Too High
Why has this changed over time?

15. How can quality of life be affected by population?
Population Density – Arithmetic Density
Location
Total Land Area in Square Miles
Population
Arithmetic Population Density A
2,941,283
19,913,144
6.8 B
3,537,418
293,027,571 83 C
144,689
127,333,002
880 D
55,593
12, 901,563
232

16. What if you were on a subway in each city?
Hamburg, Germany= 2.8 per square meter
New York, USA = 3.4 per square meter
London, England = 5.5 per square meter
Paris, France = 6.4 per square meter
Tokyo, Japan = 9.0 per square meter
Japanese Train Pushers:

18. But you can’t live on all types of land…
Physiological Population Density
Location
Total Land Area in Square Miles
Percentage of Arable Land
Arable Land in Square Miles
Physiological Population Density
Australia
2,941,283
6.55%
192,654
103
USA
3,537,418
19.13%
676,708
433
Japan
144,689
12.19%
17,638
7,219

19. Physiological Density Sq KM Agricultural Density Sq KM
What if physiological pop density is similar? Does that mean countries are?
Agricultural Density: # of Farmers to arable land
Location
Arithmetic Density
Sq KM
Physiological Density Sq KM
Agricultural Density Sq KM
% Farmers
% Arable
USA 31
172 2 1 19
Japan
338
2,907
145 5 12
Netherlands
400
1,798 72 4 27
India
350
699
419 60 56
Bangladesh
1050
1,838
1,158 63 67

20. OUR PLANET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE AT NIGHT TAKEN FROM THE SPACE SHUTTLE

26. NIGHT ARRIVES BETWEEN EUROPE & AFRICA

27. NIGHTFALL IN BRAZIL Brazilian Continental Platform. Atlantic Ocean
Salvador
Rio de Janeiro
Grande São Paulo

28. Still daylight in California.
Chicago
The biggest concentration of lights (from top to bottom) are the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.
Dallas
Puerto Rico
Houston
Miami