What is Human Geography

Name:_____________________________________________ Date:_____________________ Viewing Guide:  Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 1 Directions: Before viewing the film, read each question below so you know what information and ideas you should be looking for as you watch Episode 1. Record your answers to each question by providing as many facts, details, and examples as possible to answer each question. 1. According to Jared Diamond, what are the three major elements that separate the world’s  “haves” from the “have nots”? Germs, Guns, and steel. 2. Jared Diamond refers to the people of New Guinea as “among the world’s most culturally diverse and adaptable people in the world”, yet they have much less than modern Americans.Diamond has developed a theory about what has caused these huge discrepancies among different countries, and he says it boils down to geographic luck. Give several examples from the film to support Diamond’s theory. . Because of the more  food   opportunit

1.) According to the article, what are the two fundamental aspects of Japan's aging crisis?  One aspect is the increase in the proportion of the elderly in the total population.  The other is the slower growth of the population, arising directly from the declining fertility rate   2.) By 2030, what percentage of the Japanese population will be elderly dependents (aged 65+)? In the article it says that by 2030 1 in 3 people will be over the age of 65 in Japan. This is also equivalent to .33%. 3.) What is the direct economic impact of Japan's aging population? The latter has a direct impact on economic growth by reducing the labor force, which is a major factor in production. This is telling that with their population being this old many of them can't work and this leaves many jobs open and it is really making it hard for Japan. 4.) How is the Japanese government attempting to address the labor shortages? Some of the things they are doing are taking steps to supp

1.   The general nature of all life is the constant tendency of all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment provided for it.Through the animal and vegetable kingdoms Nature has scattered the seeds of life abroad with the most profuse and liberal hand. 2. He thinks the best checks on society and population is the check that nature does on everyone. He says this is the most efficient way to do this this and it works the best. 3. Malthus argues that increased arithmetically are limited by the availability of New land. He believed population could not increase beyond the food supply. Positive checks increase mortality rate and decrease life expectancy. Preventative checks limit reproduction and fertility. Malthus was right when he said that the population cannot exceed the the food supply

The official definition of China's one child policy is the  official program initiated in the late 1970s and early ’80s by the central government of China, the purpose of which was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. The rationale for implementing the policy was to reduce the growth rate of China’s enormous population. It was announced in late 2015 that the program was to end in early 2016. The official policy was creates in the late 1970's and the early '80s by the central government of China. But it was just recently announced in late 2015 that this would be no longer a rule in 2016, they were able to go away with it because their population decreased a little and is flattened out. This program was enforced throughout all of China. At first there was a two child limit but they soon realized this was not doing much to help the population so they took it down to one so the population would slowly decrease. There were some excep

In the old times the fertility rates were always much much higher then they were now. It used to be around 5 children per woman and if we stayed on that track we would be above the population limit on Earth because that is so many kids running around and now rarely any of them would be dying so the population would be multiplying by fifths. The main reason woman had 5 kids back then was because usually only three or two of them would survive. Geographers use fertility rates because we need to know them to try and predict the future and how this will impact us. They want to see if the population will increase decrease or stay the same and just flatten out at a certain point. We also need these to see if a country is healthy or not, we can see this by how many babies are being born properly verses how many of them are dying. This is a very important tool for geographers to try and balance the worlds population. We ultimately want around two kids per woman and we are doing a pretty good

Video Notes ·        We are doing better than most of us think we are doing ·        Was growing slowly in the beginning  ·        Population was 1 billion in 1800 ·        After this it started to grow much faster and faster ·        Most growth in the recent years has been from the Asian countries ·        The recommended number of children for each person was only 2 ·        Bangladesh completely reduced their fertility rate ·        In Bangladesh the life expectancy was only 50 years ·        Now the life span is 70 ·        They completely reversed the way their country was going ·        The average fertility rate in the world went from 5 to only 2.5 ·        The population is going to slow down  ·        We are excepting the stoppage of fast population growth and the end of this century ·        People thought we could only have 8 billion people on the world ·        80% of the world would live in Africa and Asia

1.Somalia 2.Ethiopia  3.Kenya 4.Madagascar  5.Tanzania 6.Mozambique 7.Swaziland 8.Lesotho 9. South Africa  10.Egypt 11.The sudan 12.South Sudan 13.Uganda 14.Rwanda 15.Burundi 16.Zambia 17.Zimbabwe 18.Libya 19.Chad 20.The Central African Republic  21.Democratic Republic Of The Congo  22.Angola 23.Namibia 24.Botswana 25.Niger 26.Nigeria 27.Cameroon 28.Equatorial Guinea 29.Gabon 30.Republic Of The Congo 31.Algeria 32.Mali 33.Burkina Faso 34.Ghana 35.Togo 36.Benin 37.Morocco 38.Western Sahara 39.Mauritania 40.Senegal 41. The Gambia 42.Guinea-Bissau 43.Sierra Leone 44.Liberia 45.Djibouti 46.Eritrea 47.Tunisia 48.Malawi 49.Guinea 50.Comoros 51. Sae Tome and Principe  52.The Ivory Coast 

Population- A term that is used to describe how many people are in one are, country, or town Demography- The social science which entails the statistical study of human populations Brazil 208,846,892 people live in Brazil .71% is the population growth rate There are about 1.75 children born per woman Old population- .74%  young population- 1.04% Life expectancy is 74.3 years 13.9 births out of 1000 people 6.7 deaths deaths out of 1000 people 16.9 baby deaths out of 1000 people .1 migrants out of 1000 people Norway here are 5,372,191 people in Norway The population growth rate is .91% There are about 1.85 children born per woman Old population- 16.94%  young population- 17.99% Life expectancy is about 82 years The birth rate is 12.2 births out of 1000 people The death rate is 8 deaths out of 1000 people There are 2.5 infant deaths out of 1000 infants 9.There are 5.3 migrants out of 1000 people Albania 3,057,220 people live