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UNIT 4:HUMAN
GEOGRAPHYBy Griffin Cook and Max Meredith
VOCABULARY Population: the whole number of people or inhabitants in
a country or region. Population density: people per square kilometer of land
area. Habitable lands: land that you can live on Demographers: the people who study the characteristics
of human populations, such as size growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics
Urban: of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city
Rural: of or relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture
Migration: to move from one county, place, or locality to another
Immigrant: someone who comes into another country from another country.
WHAT IS POPULATION?
Urban Rural
Big cities Lots of people Higher crime rate Concrete jungle
Small towns Not many people Lower crime rate Farm land
Population density: people per square kilometer of land area. A bigger environment means more room. A better government more people there or bad no one will be there. Bad economy no one will be there or good economy everyone will be there.
MIGRATION
Push Pull
High gas prices Not many jobs Horrible economy Corrupt
government
( The opposite of Pull)
Low gas prices Lots of jobs Great economy Non-corrupt
government
( The opposite of Push)
Migration: to move from one county, place, or locality to another. Environment a bigger better environment more people will want to be there. Political if the country bans leaving it will slow down migration. A bad economy will mean it is harder to migrate.
CHALLENGES OF RAPID GROWTH Some places are very crowded because
of too many pull factors. Examples- US, Mexico
Cons to rapid growth are loss of land, loss of plant life, lack of food, too much money spent
Eventual panic
