1. Population and Culture
Unit 3
Population and Culture

2. Human Geography
Geography is also the study of languages, religions, customs, economics, and political systems
Spatial perspective
Ecological perspective
Historical perspective
Economic perspective

3. Focus Question
What is culture?

4. The Nature of Culture
What are some of the elements of culture? If you had to think of Greenwood as a culture, what would you choose to describe it?
Identify where the following items originated:
Hotdogs and hamburgers
Halloween
Democracy
Chocolate
Number system
Paper money
hockey

5. The Nature of Culture
Culture is reflected in both material and nonmaterial ways.
Culture Hearth
Refers to a place where certain ideas begin
Language
“Cornerstone” of culture – holds a group of people together
Religion
Monotheistic vs. Polytheistic
Cultural Landscapes
Social Organization
Women and Minorities

6. Nacirema
Body rituals of the Nacirema people
How does our cultural worldview influence and inform our perception of people from other cultures?
How can we benefit from understanding our own cultural worldview and how it affects our relationships with other cultures?

7. What about the article resonates with you personally?
What is the father asking his son’s teacher to do?
What are the background knowledge and skills Wind-Wolf brings to the classroom?
How might the teacher capitalize on Wind-Wolf’s knowledge and skills?
After reading this article, why is having cultural awareness important?

8. Culture Change Culture change can be both internal and external
New technologies or the way of doing something
Cultural Convergence
When the aspects of one culture come in contact with another culture
Mexican Food/Music Videos/Clothing
Diffusion – cultural element is transmitted across a distance.
Typically through migration
Cultural Divergence
Restriction of a culture from outside contact.

10. Establishing a Settlement
You, along with 200 people have came to this deserted island in hopes of establishing a settlement and creating a society.
Year – 2012, you have no technology only your current knowledge. You are designated as the expedition leader and must decide where to build.
Analyze the map of the island, identifying key land features, natural resources, distance things are from one another, and climate type.
Choose three (3) locations that you feel are best for your group to settle and identify that location on the map.
On the back of the map, explain what influences your decision to settle in each location and describe how your society will cope with the environment/ecosystems.
Predict how a growing population would affect each settlement location, and describe what your settlement would do to address population increase.

11. What factors lead people to live where they do?

12. Focus Why is population density distributed unevenly around the world?
What are some possible effects of population growth?

13. Big World….Little Living Space
7 Billion people live on the Earth today
2/3rds of the Earth is water
½ of land is uninhabitable

14. Environment Adapting to your surroundings Clothing Buildings
Technology
Altering the physical landscape

15. Population Density: average number of people in a square mile

16. What will the effects of rapid population growth be?
Modern technology
Allows for more food to be produced
Allows for better health care
What will the effects of rapid population growth be?
Immigrants vs. Emigrants
(Birth Rate vs. Death Rate)

21. Movement and Settlement
Beachcombing
Fishing/Hunter-Gatherers
Agriculture and Civilization
Trade and Exploration
Industrial Age
Transportation and Communication

26. Urbanization
The growth of city populations
Rural
countryside

27. Urban Planning
Concentric Zone vs. Sectors

28. Satellite Image of U.S.

29. Human Footprint

30. World Urban Areas Population and Density: A 2012 Update
Annotations – 10 Points
Mapping Megacities and Population Densities – 10 Points
Reflection – 20 Points
-Write a reflection of the information in the article, 1-2 pages. Describe your findings…what stood out to you, what surprised you? Also, make sure and answer the two focus questions at the beginning of the article.