1. Spiral Entry:
How might the physical features of a place affect its population?
How might economic factors affect the population of a place?

2. Population
Unit 4 – Human Geography

3. Demography The study of populations
It is used to learn statistics within the population of certain areas of the world

4. What all affects population growth?
Possible answers:

5. Demographic Transition Model:
Birthrate – the number of births per year for every 1,000 people
Death rate – the number of deaths per year for every 1,000 people
Natural increase – growth rate of a population (difference between an area’s birth rate and death rate)
Migration – movement of people from place to place
Demographic transition – the model that uses birthrates and death rates to show how populations in countries or regions change over time
Doubling time – the number of years it takes a population to double in size

6. Model Picture

7. Population Pyramids

8. Less developed nations vs more developed nations

9. Challenges to population growth?
Food
Resources
Water
Housing
Clothing
*Age
***Population Distribution – How is this a problem?

10. Distribution vs. density
Population Distribution: the variations in population that occur across a country, a continent, or the world
Population Density: the average number of people living on a square mile or square kilometer of land

11. Do you see any issues?

13. Pg 86-90 Come up with a Proposal to resolve the population problems
Title of your plan
Details of your strategy
Which countries do you think your plan would help?
Is it a realistic option for our world?
Come up with bullet points as a group, then
Write a letter to the United Nations laying out your proposal

14. Proposals 2nd Period:
Move people to other places, decrease births for families (limit per household), give food to each family equalize amount of food
Limit amount of kids families can have, cremate people instead of burying for crop fertilizer, expand farm lands, eliminate grave yards
Drug usage, help with transportation of food/water, help out their economy from more developed nations
Food/water/ clothes donations, mission trips, move to other areas with other job opportunities, plant more crops in other places
Importing food/water, make larger groups of buildings, stop wars/drug usage, help educate, ride bikes instead of cars, spread people out (resources), make more homeless shelters/foster homes, pay more attention to lower class, help with taxes/jobs

15. Proposals 3rd Period:
Limit resources, increase job opportunities, raise house prices in certain areas, raise taxes in those areas
Countries: China, India, some of East Coast U.S.
Send people away (cruises to Antarctica), Limit supplies
Countries: China, Europe, Japan
Share land with other places, world trade increase, abundant resources are free, share resources, store resources for future use
India, China, Europe
Make friends with other nations, trade, working together, halting more man-made things
Around Asia & Eastern Area
Sharing – Import more goods, ignore past differences, forge better political relationships, form together to help one another and make compromises to help others
Mexico, Canada, U.S., England

16. Proposals 7th Period: Operation FedEx – ship off people to Australia
Operation Management – Over 65 = executed (only when population becomes unstable)… = sent to Antarctica… Sex prohibition (castration)
Raise the rate of living – raise insurance/home costs and prices of most everything… making poor people leave
Average – only 2 kids per family (cameras in living room)… 3rd kid shipped to island? (chosen by parents, or they get shipped off)

17. Proposals 8th Period:
Excavation – digging under ground to build living centers under ground... Build tall apartment buildings
Cameron Effect – send people to random islands… execute people
Limit on Land – limit on land you can own, divide country up evenly among people and encourage living together, allowing more people to have home
Resolving Problems – Build wall, build island for over flow population
Downsize – cut down water, food, and resources… help distribute to other countries that don’t have as much
Ways to solve over population – grow more food, limit the amount of people that want to move there, try to gain more land, limit amount of children a woman can have, limit the amount of land each family gets