1. Background Information

2. Facts  What is the approximate population of the earth?  Is population increasing or decreasing?  Why?  - Improved medical/health knowledge  - medicines  - treatments  - diet & exercise

3. Consequences  1. Overpopulation  2. Disease  3. Housing, food, water shortages  pollution

4. Terms  Population density - # of people in an area, usually based on per square mile  Demography – The study of society using numbers – literacy rate, income, languages, race  Culture – The customs and habits that define a group’s way of life

5. Terms  Political beliefs  - Pertains to government and authority

6. Terms  Economic beliefs  - Pertains to money and how (where) to spend it

7. The World  Approximately 200 countries exist today  4 Characteristics of a country:  - 1. Territory  - 2. Population  - 3. Government  - 4. Sovereignty

8. Stuff  Nearly all countries are broken down into smaller political units. This is a Federation.  Confederation – a union, to join

9. Types of Leadership  Authoritarian – A person or small group holds all political power  - Dictatorship – Usually gains power by military overthrow, by force  - Totalitarian – An attempt to control all aspects of society  - Monarchy – Power is gained by birthright  - Constitutional Monarchy – King or queen is symbolic. They have no real authority  - Democracy – The people govern (through representation)

10. Government  Fascism – A radical, authoritarian ideology. Single party state. No tolerance for different thought. Will use violence/war to keep the nation strong.  Nationalism – a very “pro-state” ideology. The state is superior to all other states.

11. Government  Militarism – Glorification of the military. Belief that the state must maintain a strong military that can be aggressively used to promote state interests.  Imperialism – The taking over of weaker nations for personal gain (natural resources)  Isolationism – The desire to stay out of world affairs, focus on the homefront.

12. Economic systems  We will do an economic systems comparison on the board

13. Resources  Renewable resources – Resources that once used, continue to exist  - trees, soil, water, wind  Non-renewable resources – resources that are gone once they are used  - fossil fuels  Natural resources- Materials found in the natural environment that people use to satisfy their needs

14. Energy Sources  1. fossil fuels  2. water  3. wind  4. solar  5. nuclear  6. geothermal

15. Economic Activity  1. Agriculture – Most common occupation in the world  - Subsistence farming – farming to feed one’s family  - Commercial farming – farming as a business. Growing crops to sell  2. Manufacturing  - turning raw materials into finished products

16.  Service industry – 3 rd source of income  - police, tourism, retail, banking, advertising  A developed nation has all three  A developing nation usually relies on subsistence farming.

17. Income  Gross National Product/Gross Domestic Product (GNP/GDP) – Total amount of goods and services produced by a nation in a year.  Per Capita GNP/GDP – Same as GNP but on a per person basis.  - Tells us the average yearly income.

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