GEOG 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Population Reference Bureau, Indus River, Himalayas
5 May 2016
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Geog 200 weeks 4-6: population and development. Human geography: people, place, and culture fouberg, nash, murphy, and de blij. Chapters 4, 5, 10, and 11: (90-103; 106-114; 124-145; 275-277; 304-307; 310-322) by: jack seikaly. 4. 1: how do we think about populations and how is this geographical ? (90- Intro: population geography: the study of why populations have certain characteristics and why they distribute themselves across space in different ways. The study of demography: demography: the study of the characteristics of a population, such as race, age, sex, and ethnicity. Population density: a measurement of the number of people per given unit of land, no country is evenly distributed, so its far from a rule. Physiologic population density: a measurement of the number of people per unit area of arable land. A little more accurate given distribution of populations. Population distribution: a description of locations on the earth"s surface where populations live. World population distribution and density: east asia.
