Mrs. Hansen’s Geography class
Section 1 Population and settlement Population distribution: There are 4 centers of population ○ East Asia ○ South Asia ○ Europe ○ Eastern North America
People, Climate, and Vegetation Environments or a person’s surroundings influence where people live ○ People must adapt to all environments examples of adaptation to the environments Examples ○ Homes people build ○ Clothes people wear ○ Heaters and Air conditioning ○ Irrigation
Irrigation Areas that are fairly dry must use this method to water crops The deserts on earth are expanding because of irrigation practice among other things ○ The loss of fertile soil, farming land and forests is due to The destruction of plant life Over farming Cutting down trees
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s Long Droughts, periods of dry weather The fertile soil blew away in heavy winds Many people relocated because of the Dust Bowl
People, land, and water People settle near water Areas of Heaviest population Bodies of Water China’s river valleysChang Jiang, Huang he, and Xi Jiang Ganges River Valley in India, Bangladesh Ganges River Central and southern England Atlantic ocean Netherlands and BelgiumSouthern coast of North Sea France and GermanyRhine River UkraineDnieper River Northeastern United States and SE Canada Atlantic Ocean, St Lawrence River Nile ValleyNile River East AfricaLarge lakes in East Africa SE coast of South AmericaAtlantic Ocean, Amazon River Eastern and Southern coasts of Australia Pacific Ocean
People on the move Migration: the movement of people ○ Pull factors: conditions of other countries pull people to a new location ○ Push factors: unpleasant conditions push people to a better location.
Migration within a country usually cause people from rural areas to move to urban areas Urbanization is the movement from the countryside to cities Large concentrations of people around cities create ○ metropolitan areas : the big city and the sprawling suburbs that surround them. Demographers: Study the effects of these movements and distributions