AP Human Geography Short/Free Response Topics Chapter 2. – Flashcards
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Describe the geographic distribution of population across earth noting major population clusters
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2/3 of the world is in, 4 regions -East Asia -1/5—Five-sixths live in China alone -South Asia—1/5—Three-fourths live in India -Europe—1/9 of world pop -Southeast Asia—1/12 of world pop Near the Ocean, fertile land, low lying areas.
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East Asia
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1/5 of worlds population -Five-sixths live in China alone Farmers 3/4 #1 population cluster
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SouthAsia
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1/5 of world pop—Three-fourths live in India Farmers 2nd largest population cluster
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Europe
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1/9th of worlds pop Industrialized 3/4 in cities 3rd largest population cluster
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South East Asia
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1/12 of world pop Farmers 4th largest population cluster
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Comparing_____ and _______ help scientists compare
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Physiological and Arithmetic Densities, helps geographers understand the capacity of the land to yeild enough food for the needs of the people
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Population Density
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Physiological density Agricultural Density Arithmetic Density
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Arithmetic Density.
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Total number of people divided by total land area.
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Physiological Density.
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#of people in an area with a total arable land.
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Agricultural Density
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Farmers to arable land.
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The Agricultural and Physiological densities are used to examine
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Relationship between population and it's resources in a country.
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21st century natural increase
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1.2 rate
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Discuss Thomas Malthus contribution to population studies as well as his critics.
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Malthus proposed in his Essay on the Principle of Population 1798, that the population grows faster than the food supply. He claimed that while population expanded at a geometric or exponential rate, food supply increased arithmetically .
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3/4 of the worlds population
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live on only 5 % of earths land
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CRITICS OF MALTHUS
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that population growth stimulates new technology and that as strain is put on any resource, the inventive human being will simply develop an alternative method once it is economically feasible
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Agricultural Intensification Theory (Ester Boserup)
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This means that population growth would increase the demand for food which in turn would stimulate or encourage the development of technologies needed to increase agriculture . (More pop growth more food.)
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