UNIT assignments

AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Unit 2 – POPULATION

Unit Readings

Places & Regions in Global Context – Chapter 3

The Lexus & The Olive Tree – Chapters 5-10

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Unit Terms

Note: Terms in Bold Type are not found in our text and will be covered in class.

Demography

Census

Vital Records

Crude Density (Arithmetic Density)

Nutritional Density (Physiologic Density)

Agricultural Density

Baby Boom

Histogram

Age-Sex Pyramid (Population Pyramid)

Cohort

Dependency Ratio

Youth Cohort

Middle Cohort

Old-Age Cohort

Crude Birthrate (CBR)

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

Doubling Time

Crude Death Rate (CDR)

Natural Increase

Natural Decrease

Infant Mortality Rate

Life Expectancy

Demographic Transition Model

Demographic Momentum

J-Curve Growth (Population Explosion)

S-Curve Growth

Homeostatic Plateau

Carrying Capacity

Mobility

Migration

Emigration (Emigrant)

Immigration (Immigrant)

International Migration

Internal Migration

Gross Migration

Net Migration

Push Factors

Pull Factors

Voluntary Migration

Forced Migration

Eco-migration

Step Migration

Chain Migration

Counter (or Return) Migration

Migration Field

Channelized Migration

Refugee

Suburbanization

Neomalthusians

Zero Population Growth

Pronatalism

1994 International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo Conference)

Ecumene v. Nonecumene

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Unit Enrichment – Population Issues Debates/Presentations

(See Attached Handout)

Unit Map Quizzes – Country Quizzes

You will have two quizzes on the states of the world: One will cover Eurasia & the Pacific (Tuesday, October 23), and the other will cover Africa (Friday, October 26).

Refer to the following web site for a list of countries and a handy map quizzer: http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/projects/geog/geog300/placenames.html

***NOTE: Add the countries of Bahrain and Singapore to the Eurasia list

Unit Paper – Demographic Analysis

Write an analysis of the demographic trends and problems of your assigned country. You should consider, but not necessarily address, such issues as …

Is population increasing? Declining? Holding steady?
What are the most telling statistics (e.g. birth rate, death rate, total fertility rate, population density, AIDS cases, life expectancy, etc.)?
What is the age/gender structure? [A population pyramid would be useful here.]
What are the projected population trends for the future?
How mobile and fluid is the population? (emigration & immigration)
What the major population problems/issues the country faces?
How are the government and non-government agencies attempting to control/direct population trends?

You should not answer these questions in succession – they are simply intended to get you thinking about the possible issues to consider

Useful Web Sites for Your Paper

Population Pyramids: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html – The US Census Bureau site allows you to generate current and future population pyramids for any country in the world.

Population Reference Bureau: http://www.prb.org/pubs/wpds2000 – Here you will find access to a wide range of demographic data for your country.