Tool Box UnitPart 6 – Population & Culture

Where does everyone live???

• Only 1/3 – 1/4 of the earth is land• Only ½ of the land is livable

• Earth as an apple….

Earth as an apple…..• ¾ of the earth is ocean

• ½ of the land is desert, swamp, Antarctic, Arctic and Mountains – only ½ is livable

• ¾ of what’s left is land that is too rocky, too wet, too hot, poor soil, or developed by people – it can’t be used to grow food

• Only ¼ of ½ of ¼ (1/32) of the earth must feed the entire planet……

Population• Population Density• Population Growth• Settlement Patterns

Beach in China….

Population Density• How many people per

square mile?

Egypt

Population Growth• Birth Rate• Death Rate• Immigration• Emmigration

Question 1

People who move IN to a country.

a) Population density

b) Population growth

c) Immigration

d) Emigration

e) Birth rate

Question 2

The number of live births each year per 1000 people.

a) Population density

b) Population growth

c) Immigration

d) Emigration

e) Birth rate

Question 3The increase in population.

a) Population density

b) Population growth

c) Immigration

d) Emigration

e) Birth rate

Question 4

People who move OUT of a country.

a) Population density

b) Population growth

c) Immigration

d) Emigration

e) Birth rate

Question 5

The number of people per square mile.

a) Population density

b) Population growth

c) Immigration

d) Emigration

e) Birth rate

Culture

• Cultural hearths• Language• Religion• Cultural Landscapes• Social Organizations• Cultural Change

Cultural Hearths

Language

Religion

Cultural Landscapes

Agricultural Patterns

Social Organizations

• Social Classes• Women & minorities

Cultural Change

•Convergence •Diffusion•Divergence

Convergence“Coming Together”

DiffusionProcess by which change is spread

Divergence

“Staying Apart”

Question 6

Occurs when the skills, arts, ideas, habits and institutions of one culture come into contact with those of another culture.

a) Convergence

b) Divergence

c) Diffusion

d) Cultural hearth

e) culture

Question 7

A place where important ideas began and spread out.

a) Convergence

b) Divergence

c) Diffusion

d) Cultural hearth

e) culture

Question 8

To deliberately keep a group / culture separate or apart.

a) Convergence

b) Divergence

c) Diffusion

d) Cultural hearth

e) culture

Question 9

The beliefs and actions that define a group of people’s way of life.

a) Convergence

b) Divergence

c) Diffusion

d) Cultural hearth

e) culture

Question 10

PROCESS by which a cultural element is transmitted across some distance from one group or individual to another.

a) Convergence

b) Divergence

c) Diffusion

d) Cultural hearth

e) culture

Population Cartogram

The End!!!