1. Ch.3: Population and Culture
Titan Blaster #5 – Turn in all 5:
Why do people move to large cities? Give three reasons.

2. Ch.3: Population and Culture
Titan Blaster #4:
What are major problems people face who live in large cities? Give three examples.

3. Section One: The Study of Human Geography - Where People Live
Culture is the beliefs and actions that define a group of people’s way of life.

4. Section One: The Study of Human Geography - Where People Live
More than 6 billion people live on the earth. Population density is the average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Natural obstacles greatly effect where people can live. 2/3 of the earth is covered by water while ½ of the land is unlivable due to deserts, mountains, etc.

5. Section One: The Study of Human Geography - Where People Live

7. Growth Rates

8. Population Growth
Population growth has occurred in almost all areas of the world.
Modern technology has increased food production.
Improved medical care has enabled people to live longer, healthier lives.

9. Growth Rates
The birthrate is the number of live births each year per 1,000 people.
Immigrants are people who move into a country.
Emigrants are people who leave a country.
A zero growth rate occurs when the death + emigration rate and birth + immigration rate are equal.

10. Patterns of Settlement
Many people live in metropolitan areas which are cities surrounded by suburbs.
Urbanization is the growth of city population.
Rural is a term that describes life in the countryside.

11. Ch.3: Population and Culture
Titan Blaster #1 Use your book if necessary CH. 3:
Why has population growth occurred so rapidly since 1850?
What are a few possible effects of a large population growth?

12. The Nature of Culture
Culture hearth – A place where important ideas begin and spread to surrounding areas. Example is gunpowder in China.
A language is necessary to have a culture.

13. Religion in Culture
Religion helps people answer basic questions about the meaning of life.
Monotheism - Christianity
Polytheism - Hinduism

14. Religion in Culture

15. Religion in Culture Why hasn’t Hinduism and Buddhism spread?
Where are the largest concentration of Islamic religions? How did it get there?
How did Christianity get to North and South America?

16. Ch.3: Population and Culture
Titan Blaster #2:
Explain one of the following two statements:
Christianity came across to North America by ______. They did it because ________
Islam is mainly located in ______ and _______. It is there because ___________

17. Ch.3: Population and Culture
Titan Blaster #4:
Culture hearth – A place where important ideas begin and spread to surrounding areas. Example is gunpowder in China.
Give three more.

18. Culture
Cultural landscape – People change the layout of the land by using technology. Example- Great Plains vs China & Vietnam.

19. Culture
Social organization is how a society perceives the importance of its members.
Money
Education
Occupation
Heritage

20. Culture
Social mobility is the ability to change classes within a culture.
In some cultures, limits are placed on women and religion.

21. Culture
In some cultures, limits are placed on women and religion.

22. Cultural Change
Transportation, communication and technology speeds up change.
Cultural convergence – When cultures come together and adapt.

23. Cultural Change
Diffusion – The process by which a cultural element is sent across a distance from one group to another.

24. Culture
Cultural divergence is a closed society. A culture does not allow outside ideas to come in.

25. Ch 3.2 Political and Economic Systems
The World’s Countries
There are 195 independent countries in the world.
The largest is Russia and the smallest is the Vatican City.
There are four characteristics of independent countries:
Territory – This includes its land, water and natural resources.
These can shrink due to wars.
Population – Citizens receive security and pay taxes.
Sovereignty – A nation’s freedom from outside control.
Government …

26. Types of Government
Government is the institution where a society makes and enforces its public policies (rules) and
provides for
common needs.

27. Government structure
Unitary system – One central government runs the country. Ex. Great Britain and Japan.
Federation – Some powers are given to a national government and others are given to the states. Ex. USA
Confederation – States have sovereignty with very limited power at the national level. Ex. CSA during the Civil War.

28. Ch.3: Political and Economic Systems
Titan Blaster #5 – Turn in all 5 now
Explain the differences between these three government types:
1 – Federation
2 – Confederation
3 – Unitary system

29. Types of Economic Systems
Traditional economy – nearly all goods and services are made for and used by the people of the country. There is little left over for trade.

31. Types of Economic Systems
Market economy or free enterprise – Great freedom to individuals and groups to buy and sell goods. Prices are usually set by “supply and demand.”

32. Types of Economic Systems
Command economy (communism) – The government decides what can be produced, how much to make, what the price will be, etc.

34. Types of Economic Systems
Mixed economy – (Socialism) The government owns many services like transportation and banking but the people own the rest. This is also called a “welfare state” since taxes pay for all services.

35. Ch.3: Political and Economic Systems
Titan Blaster #3
Give three ways in which our government affects our daily lives. Explain each.

36. Government Authority
Authoritarian – Leaders hold all or nearly all power in the government.
Authoritarians are individuals who expect absolute acceptance of and obedience to their views -- even if an authoritarian's views are contrary to evidence, facts, and natural reality. An authoritarian's power derives from his/her personality -- ego, charm, charisma and parental inheritance.

37. Government Authority
Authoritarian – Leaders hold all or nearly all power in the government.

38. Government Authority
The most common form of this is a dictatorship. A single person or small group hold all power.

39. Government Authority
The most common form of this is a dictatorship. A single person or small group hold all power.

40. Government Authority
The most extreme form is totalitarianism where the govern-ment controls everything from politics to each person’s every day life.

41. Government Authority
The most extreme form is totalitarianism where the govern-ment controls everything from politics to each person’s every day life.

42. Government Authority Monarchy – The country is run by kings or queens.
Democracy – People choose their own leaders and have the power to set the government’s policy.

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