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THE STUDY OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Students should be able to: distinguish population size from population density, identify causes of rapid population growth, and list some traits that define culture.
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The Web of Culture--The whole world as 100 people If we could shrink the earth’s population
to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same it would look like this:
Asians Europeans North American Latin American Africans females Christian Non-white malnourished
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Results—The Wheel of Culture Asians--60 Europeans—10.4 North American--5 Latin American—8.6 Africans—15.5 females—49.8 Christian—31 Non white-70 malnourished--13
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The Wheel of Culture
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What does the word culture mean to you? How is it connected to Geography?
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Culture consists of all the skills, behaviors, values, and customs particular to a certain group of people. Culture is learned behavior – or simply: a way of life. It is reflected in both objects and ideas (material
and nonmaterial items) Human Geographers study people. They might look
at populations, rates of birth, marriage, death, beliefs, and actions that define a way of life.
Geographers might also look at population density – or how many people live in a given area. They might even consider why people live where they do.
Human Geography
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This aspect of geography includes the study of topics like: Languages Religions Economic Systems Political System Food Clothing Architecture Arts/Crafts Technology Patterns of Behavior
The Nature of Culture Culture is reflected
in both objects and ideas – meaning it can be found in the tangible and intangible or material and nonmaterial.
What are some aspects you can list?
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Culture and Human Environmental Interaction
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Humans adapt to the environment, but also change the environment, and use the environment. Just a Few Examples:
Deforestation Introduction of new grasses Plowing soil Damming rivers Burning fossil fuels.
Culture and Cultural Landscapes As human beings use natural
resources or alter the surface of the earth, they produce unique cultural landscapes that reflect specific cultures.
A cultural hearth is the beginning point for ideas. Examples?
Cultures are changed by internal and external forces/influences. Sometimes these are referred to as push/pull factors. Think about the migration of people.
The movement of cultural components is called diffusion (examples).
The modifying of cultural components is acculturation--McDonald's Menu
What cultural characteristics do you see?
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Use the topics you just considered…
What cultural characteristics do you see?
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Use the topics you just considered…
What cultural characteristics do you see?
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Use the topics you just considered…
What cultural characteristics do you see?
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Use the topics you just considered…
What cultural characteristics do you see?
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Use the topics you just considered…
Where People Live:
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The world contains over 6.7 billion people. (You won’t even live 1 billion seconds until you are 31 years old!)
Some places have lots of people, while others are empty. What factors lead people to live where they do? 71% of the earth is water, the remaining
land has limited amounts of land that will support people.
As a result, people live where: soil is arable, water is plentiful enough, climate is mild enough for crops.
Due to unequal distribution of resources…
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The world is populated in an unequal distribution. What is the geographic measurement of people in a given area? Population Density. How is it calculated? Total population of an area / total land area Problems with this calculation? Perhaps figure tot. pop / arable land Other suggestions?
Population is growing, but where?
Look at the graphs in your textbook on page 90-91. When did the
population boom begin?
Where is it happening?
Significance?
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What will the effects of population growth be?
There is more than one answer here.
Some geographers predict horror, while others are optimistic about technology and human creativity.
What do you think? Do these
population events impact our life?
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Most people live in one of four regions: East Asia –China, Japan South Asia – India,
Pakistan Europe Eastern North America Many of these regions
are highly urban (related to city population) – opposite of rural (countryside population) – the pattern of movement is toward urbanization.
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Human Geography
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A special focus of geography is demography (description of a given population) – demographics like: Birth rate Literacy Gross Domestic Product Person Per Physician Life Expectancy There are many others…
A few of the first questions asked by geographers include…
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Where do people live and why? What are these people like? How have they adapted, changed,
used the environment? Have they moved ideas, goods,
populations? Can they be connected to other
groups that are alike? All of these questions helps to
provide a basis for the human geography of a place or region.
