population and culture
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- % of world population is in - - N.A. -Latin America -Africa -Europe -Australia/ Oceania -Asia
- -5% -9% -14% -11% -1% -61%
- Agricultural revolution
- (neolithic) 10,000 yrs. ago - humans settled and built permanent crops
- annual growth rate
- % a country's populations grows or decreases each year including immigration and emmigration
- aprox. world population/ us population
- 6.55 billion/ 300 million
- arable land
- farmable land
- capital
- money and materials used to produce more wealth
- carrying capacity
- how many people the land can support
- demographics
- study of human populations statistics
- doubling time ( rate )
- projected # of years it will take a country to double in population
- export
- to ship to other countries or places for sale, exchange, ect
- fertility rate
- avg. # of children a woman will have in her lifetime
- gross domestic product"
- "measure of nation's wealth" - annual profits from all goods and service produced IN a country in a year
- gross national product
- "measure of nation's wealth" annual profits from all goods and services produced BY a country in a year
- how much more energy does avg. US citizen use than rest of world
- 5 times more
- import
- to bring in from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, re-export, or services
- industrial revolution
- *late 1700's industrial and mass production-factories and machines replaced farming
- industrialization
- process of social and ecenomic change wherby a human group is transformed from a preindustrial society to an industrial one
- infant mortality
- # of infants who die before reaching age of 1 per 1000 live births
- information revolution
- * late 1900's - computers store send lots of information around the world in seconds
- infrastructure
- buildings and other structures needed to undustrailize - hospitals, roads, schools ect
- landlocked
- having no direct access to the sea
- life expectancy
- average #of years a person born today can to live
- literacy rate
- % of population that has baility to read and write
- mass production
- large scale processing of raw materials into products
- migration
- to leave a place and move permanently to another place
- most important factor that influences population distribution
- natural resources, geography of the land, location ( where fertile soil, available water and climate are)
- natural resource
- materials from nature used by humans
- negative population growth
- when a country's death rate exceed brith rate
- per capita income
- average yearly income for a person in a place - worked out by taking the total national income and dividing it by the number of people in the nation
- population density
- avg. amt. of people per square mile ( kilometer)
- population distribution
- pattern of population in a country, continent, or the world
- post industrial economy
- economy based on services, information, and high technology
- primary industry
- *1st to touch natural resource -located at site of the natural resource(forest, lake, iron ore) -most basic ecenomic activity -ex:farming, fishing, mining
- problems caused by increased population?
- more poverty and hunger, more resources used
- pull - factors
- factors that make people want to tcome to a place
- push - factors
- factors that make people want to leave a place
- quaternary industry
- *produces new information -leads to new products and new ideas -manages flow of new info around economy -invent new products -researches to produce new ideas -located anywhere there's good telecommunications -not tied to resources, enviroment, or ac
- rural
- farm or country living area
- secondary industry
- *manufacturing -use raw materials to produce or manufacture something new and more valuable -turns raw materials into finished goods -light industry:consumer goods -heavy ind.:big mach, military mac -located at site of nat. res. or close to market pl
- standard of living
- quaulity of life
- tertiary industry
- *service industry -involves the selling of goods and products from primary. sec. industry and sale of service skills -located where service required (where ppl are) -ex:doctor, lawyer, teacher
- top 5 most populous countries
- china, india, us, indonesia, brazil
- urban
- living are incity/ town
- why is global population growing
- higher birth rates than death rates, more populated countries w/ lots of poverty have lots of baby
- zero population growth
- when a popluations death reate= birth rate