A.
Geographical analysis of population
1.
Density, distribution, and scale
2.
Consequences of various densities and distributions
3.
Patterns of composition: age, sex, race, and ethnicity
4.
Population and natural hazards: past, present, and future
B.
Population growth and decline over time and space
1.
Historical trends and projections for the future
2.
Patterns of fertility, mortality, and health
3.
Regional variations of demographic transitions
4.
Effects of pro- and anti-natalist policies
C.
Population movement
1.
Major voluntary and involuntary migrations at different scales
2.
Short-term, local movements, and activity space
Study Questions (AP Student Companion):
1.
Explain the difference between arithmetic growth and
exponential growth.
2.
What have been some of the trends in population growth and
distribution since the First Agricultural Revolution?
3.
What impact has the Industrial Revolution had on human
populations? How have populations,
which have had such revolutions, typically responded?
4.
What is the relationship between population growth and
distribution to natural hazards?
5.
How does “distance decay” and “intervening
opportunity” affect migration patterns?
6.
What is the relationship between improvements in global health
and the appearance of age-sex pyramids over the last century?
7.
Why do fertility rates and mortality rates differ from region
to region and sometimes even within regions?
8.
What tools do demographers use to study population structures?
9.
What contributions did John Snow, Thomas Malthus, and Ernst
Ravenstein make to
population geography?
10.
Explain the
demographic transition model. Why
are some demographers suspect of
its validity when applied to
contemporary growth situations?
11.
What role does
medical geography play within the realm of human geography?
12.
Distinguish
between each of these examples of human movement:
A.
voluntary and forced migration
B.
cyclic and periodic movement
C.
immigrant and emigrant
D.
push and pull factors
13.
Describe some of the pro- and anti-natalist policies practiced
by nations in today’s
world.
14.
age-sex pyramid (70-72)
15.
arithmetic growth (56)
16.
birth rate (72-74)
17.
crude birth rate (CBR) (73)
18.
crude death rate (CDR) (73)
19.
demographic transition (77)
20.
demography (55)
21.
density (56)
22.
distance decay (84)
23.
distribution (56)
24.
doubling time (68)
25.
exponential growth (68)
26.
fertility rate (as a “key issue,” 55-56, 74-75)
27.
gravity model (83)
28.
infant mortality (400-403)
29.
intervening opportunity (84)
30.
linear growth (68)
31.
life expectance (403-405)
32.
Malthusian theory (69)
33.
migration (81)
34.
mortality rate (75, 441)
35.
natural increase (72-73)
36.
pull factory (83)
37.
push factor (83)
38.
Ravenstein’s “laws” of migration (83)
39.
stationary population level (SPL) (68)
40.
step migration (84)
41.
total fertility rate (TFR) (74-75)
· Discussion
of study questions
· Internet
viewing: www.Prb.org & www.census.gov
· “The
Hidden Momentum of Population Growth”, Human Geography in Action, Chapter 7
· “Bar
Hopping around the Pyramids”,
AP Student Companion, Activity 2.1
· Read
and discuss, “2015 Outlook: Enough Food, Scarce Water, Porous
Borders”, by
Elain Sciolino published in the New
York Times on December 17, 2000
· Free
Response Question #2
Classroom Activities Assignments