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Cards (33)

  • Geography
    The study of places and relationships between people and their environment
  • Physical geography
    The study of natural features of the Earth's surface
  • Human geography
    The study of relationships between humans, cultures, economies etc and their interactions with the environment
  • Population Density
    The number of people who live in a given area
  • Birth Rate

    Number of births per thousand people/year
  • Death Rate
    Number of deaths per thousand people/year
  • Fertility Rate
    Average amount of babies a woman has in her life
  • Infant Mortality Rate

    The number of deaths of children under one year
  • Literacy Rate
    The percentage of people in a certain area who can read and write
  • Life Expectancy
    Average period that a person may expect to live
  • Settlement patterns
    • Linear
    • Scattered
    • Clustered
    • Peripheral
  • Linear settlement
    • A single street with houses on either side of the road
  • Scattered settlement
    • A rural population
  • Clustered settlement
    • Villages
  • Peripheral settlement
    • Rio De Janeiro statue
  • Calculating population density
    Number of people divided by km squared
  • Population density categories
    • Sparse - 14 people or less
    • Moderate - 15-149
    • Dense - 150+
  • Settlement factors
    • Political
    • Social
  • Measures cities will need to take to accommodate future population growth:
  • Population characteristics in developed countries

    Good economy, government, resources, healthcare
  • Population characteristics in developing countries
    Country working toward a sustainable environment
  • clustered is a population in a tightly packed area
  • scattered is a population spread out in a larger area
  • linear is a population that lines along a naturnal or human built feature
  • peripheral is population that surrounds a natural or human built feature
  • 6 settlement factors are social economic political landscape resoures and climate
  • political has high dense because of good goverment and low dense because on unstable governement
  • social has high pop for people who wanna be surrounded due to security reasons and low pop for people who wanna be isolated
  • economic has high pop for good jobs and low pop for low job oppurnutiyes
  • landscape has high pop for low landsand low pop for highlands
  • resources have high pop when they are rich is them and low pop for few resources
  • climate has high pop for temperate climate and low pop for extreme climates
  • to accomodate future population growth you need to increase food development,build new homes, vetter health care,anf goverment grants