Geography GEO 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Remote Sensing, Total Fertility Rate, Cartography

• School: Texas State University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography GEO 1310
• Professor: Hartsell

Document Summary

Longitude north and south: prime meridian runs through greenwich, uk. Map scale: scale, representative fraction, graphic or linear scale. Map patterns and map legends: thematic map (themes, legend, choropleth map (darker colors, greater density) Viewing the earth: remote sensing, applications, gis, combines data from many sources, shows spatial patterns and relationships, essential to geographic problem solving. Different regions of the world (book divides it that way: 12 world regions, 5 themes in each regional chapter. Physical geo and environmental issues: sustainability best use of resources. Population and settlement: people: over 7 billion people, fastest pop. growth in poorest countries, migration, pop. planning policies. Population growth: rate of natural increase (rni, total fertility rate (tfr) 2. 1 is desired rate which translates as replacement rate, replacement rate. Population age structure: potential for pop growth, population pyramid, life expectancy. Demographic transition: tracks changes in birth and death rates over time, 5 stages. Immigrant : net migration rate, urbanized population.