1. Geography 8
Course Organization

2. A2.6: Notes Popular Geographical Terms
Urban
Rural
Urbanization
Global
Globalization
Global Settlement
Sustainability
Economic Development
Quality of Life

3. A2.5 & A2.6: Worksheet
Introduction to Geographical Concepts Handout

4. A3.4 Reading How is Earth’s Population Changing?
USE A HIGHLIGHTER TO REMEMBER KEY POINTS

5. A3.4, 3.5: Handout How is Earth’s Population Changing?
Add to Introduction Handout: Use notes from Reading

6. A3.1: Notes Where do people live?
Population Distribution: The patterns of how people are arranged in an area
Clustered
Scattered
Linear
Peripheral
Draw an example of each in your notebook
(what do you think they look like?)

7. A3.1: Notes Population Density
Population density is the number of people in a given area
Dense: many people crowded in one area
Sparse: small number of people scattered over a large area

8. Why are there so many high-rise buildings in Hong Kong?
A1.1: Discussion
Why are there so many high-rise buildings in Hong Kong?

9. Why are there so few people who live in Northern New Brunswick?
A1.1: Discussion
Why are there so few people who live in Northern New Brunswick?

10. P. 32: What influences where people build settlements?
A1.1: Reading (p. 32)
P. 32: What influences where people build settlements?

11. A1.1: Activity
RESEARCH ONE CITY OR COUNTRY AND LIST 5 REASONS WHY SOMEONE MIGHT WANT TO MOVE TO, OR MOVE AWAY FROM, THIS PLACE

12. A1.2: Reading (p. 58) Climate Change & Settlement
What impact would rising sea levels have on coastal cities?
Which cities would be most severely affected?

13. A1.2: Documentary Chasing Ice
What impact would rising sea levels have on coastal cities?
Which cities would be most severely affected?

14. A2.1: Documentary Cowspiracy
What are the social, environmental, and economic effects of loss of agricultural land? Of the loss of forests?

15. A2.1: Documentary Damnation
What impact does loss of habitat have on wildlife? What are the costs of the encroachment of human settlement on agricultural or wilderness areas?

16. A1.3, 2.3: Readings Building a Sustainable Community
Readings p. 102 & 118

17. A1.3; 2.1, 2.2: Assignment Create your own city
Gather and organize data and information from a variety of sources and using various technologies to investigate issues related to the interrelationship between human settlement and sustainability.
Create a pencil drawing, mixed media, or pastel creation to illustrate these issues in a non-sustainable community.
Create a pencil drawing, mixed media, or pastel creation to illustrate sustainable solutions for the community created in drawing #1.
Choose map of Canada or Build your own city

18. A2.3; A3.7 Choropleth Maps Used to show one type of data
What is this map communicating?

19. A3.7, 2.3: Worksheet
Choropleth Maps p. 28.

20. A3.3; 2.4: Discussion Land Use Conflicts
Lebreton Flats: Why is there a fight over this land?

21. A3.3; 2.4: Reading Land Use Conflicts
P. 96 from Text

22. A2.2: Assignment Gathering & Organizing Data
Where would you find information on the social and economic consequences of loss of rural settlement?
Why do you need to gather from several sources for information and data rather than relying on one source?
What questions do you need to ask yourself when looking at a website for information?
In groups: Use your computer as a research tool to find information on the social and economic consequences of loss of rural settlement.

23. A3.2: Independent Activity Settlement and Physical Environments
Using the area of the world that is assigned to you, identify and describe some ways in which the physical environment can influence the general location and patterns of human settlement in this area.
What type of physical environment is most conducive to agriculture?
What can happen to a resource town once the resource on which its economy depends has been depleted?
Example: Bathurst, New Brunswick (Mines).