GEOGRAPHY TEST Flashcards
(31 cards)
What factors work together to creating patterns of where people live?
- natural environment
- level of economic development
- history of a region
What percent of the world’s surface are is water?
71%
What percent of the earth is land surface?
29%
What percent of the earth’s land surface can support human settlement?
Only half of the earth’s land surface
___% of the human population lives on __% of the earth’s land surface
90% of the human population lives on 10% of the earths land surface
Where do people tend to live?
Where there is more water
Where are many of the world’d largest cities developed?
Costal areas.
What’re water ways used for?
Shipping, industry, agriculture
Where do most people work in developing countries?
harvesting natural resources:
-cutting forests
-mining minerals
usually located in rural areas with low population densities
Where do people work in developed countries?
Jobs that provide services:
- retail stores
- hospitals
- banks
Arable:
capable of producing crops
Census
an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
About how many people existed 10 000 years ago after the iceage?
4 million
When the population begin to grow?
Around 1950, because of baby boomers made after world war 2
Through out the first years of the twenty first century, what did the population grow by?
76 million people
What has the united nations predicted?
That by the year 2050 the population will grow to about 9 billion people
What is demography?
The study of the human population
What was the population estimated to be in March 2009?
6.79 billion
What is a cluster?
a group of things or people close together in a small space
What else do demographers do?
- help countries, regions and cities predict their populations in the future
- works for governments and business to help them decide how to provide services to people
How does the census work?
Every five years, governments collect info about the people living within their borders.
Every ten years, they conduct more detailed surveys.
These surveys include questions about age, ethnic background etc
Between what years did it take only 12 years to get another billion people?
1975-1987
Many people live in what huge four clusters
- Eastern North America
- Western Europe
- Southern Asia
- South East Asia
Scattered
A group of people spreaded out in a large space
