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A.P. Human Geography - Population Questions and Answers
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A.P. Human Geography - PopulationDemography - answer the scientific study of population characteristics
Globalization - answer the increasing amount of interaction and integration on the
international scale through exchange of products, services, ideas, and information.
Local Diversity - answer how each place differs from another; uniqueness of a place
Four Regions - answer Two-thirds of the world's inhabitants are clustered in East Asia,
South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe
-Most of their people live near an ocean or near a river
-Occupy generally low-lying areas, with fertile soil and temperate climate
Cartogram - answer Depicts the size of countries according to population rather than
land area
East Asia - answer-One fifth of the world's people live in East Asia
-5/6ths of the people in this concentration live in China
China - answer-The world's most populous country
-The world's third largest country in land area, but much of its interior is sparsely
inhabited mountains and deserts
-Population is clustered near the Pacific Coast and in several fertile river valleys that
extend inland
South Asia - answer-One-fifth of the world's people
-Includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the island of Sri Lanka
-The most important concentration of people within South Asia lives along a 1,500 km
corridor from Pakistan through India and Bangladesh to the Bay of Bengal
-Much of this area's population is concentrated along the plains of the Indus and
Ganges rivers
-Most people in South Asia are farmers living in rural areas
-Contains more than 19 urban areas with more than 2 million inhabitants and 45 with
more than 1 million, but only one-fourth of the total population lives in an urban area
Southeast Asia - answer-A half billion people live in Southeast Asia
-Largest concentration is on the island of Java
-High percentage of people working as farmers in rural areas
Europe - answer-World's third largest population cluster
-One ninth of the world's people
-Three fourths of Europe's inhabitants live in cities
, -Less than 20 percent are farmers
-A dense network of road and rail lines link settlements
Ecumene - answerThe portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human
settlement
Dry Lands - answer-Areas too dry for farming cover approximately 20 percent of Earth's
land surface
-The largest desert region, extending from North Africa to Southwest and Central Asia,
is known by several other names, including Sahara, Arabian, Thar, Takla Makan, and
Gobi Deserts
-Lack sufficient water to grow crops that could feed a large population, although some
people survive there by raising animals, such as camels, that are adapted to the climate
-By constructing irrigation systems, people can grow crops in some parts of the desert
-Although dry lands are generally inhospitable to intensive agriculture, they may contain
natural resources useful to people - notably, much of the world's oil reserves
-The increasing demand for these resources had led to a growth in settlements in or
near deserts
Wet Lands - answer-Lands that receive very high levels of precipitation may also be
inhospitable for human occupation
-These lands are located primarily near the equator in the interiors of South America,
Central Africa, and Southeast Asia
-Rainfall averages more than 1.25 meters per year
-The combination of rain and heat rapidly depletes nutrients from the soil, thus hindering
agriculture
-Precipitation may be concentrated into specific times of the year or spread throughout
the year.
-In seasonally wet lands, such as those in Southeast Asia, enough food can be grown to
support a large population
Cold Lands - answer-Much of the land near the North and South poles is perpetually
covered with ice or the ground is permanently frozen (permafrost)
-The polar regions receive less precipitation than some Central Asian deserts, but over
years the annual snowfall has accumulated into thick ice
-The polar regions are unsuitable for planting crops, few animals can survive the
extreme cold, and few human beings live there
High Lands - answer-Relatively few people live at high elevations
-People may prefer to occupy higher lands if temperatures and precipitation are
uncomfortably high at lower elevations
Arithmetic Density - answer-The total number of people divided by total land area (also
known as population density)
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