Earth’s Human and Cultural Geography

World Population  The worlds population was grown rapidly over the past 200 years, creating new challenges  The Reasons:  Better healthcare, living conditions, and food has led to a decrease in the death rate  An increase in healthy births, mostly in Asia, Africa, and Latin America  Challenges of Population Growth:  Food, water, and housing shortages caused by things like war  The need for more services like hospitals and schools

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Where People Live  Population Distribution:  The Earth’s population is not evenly distributed  Most people live in urban areas instead of rural areas  Where are the most population areas around the world?  Population Density – a way to figure out how crowded a country is. It is based on an average.  Malaysia vs. Norway: Nearly the same square miles  But Norway was 40 people per square mile while Malaysia has 250 people per square mile

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Population Movement  Large numbers of people migrate from one place to another  Internal Migration – when people in the same country move from one part of the country to the other  Usually from rural areas to cities  This results in urbanization, or the growth of cities  Emigrate – leaving the country from where you were born and move to another country  They are emigrants from their homeland and immigrants in the new country

Why do People Move?  There are “push” factors and “pull” factors  What are some examples of each?  Some people are forced to flee their countries to escape wars, persecution, or natural disasters  They are called refugees  In the 90s, 2 mill people fled Rwanda to escape mass killings

Impact of Migration  These mass movements of people have huge impacts on both the place they leave and the new place they call home  What are some of those impacts?