GEO
101 World Human Geography
Spring 2011
Lecture Outline
Matters!
Talking about Population
Before Lecture
Reading
assignment for today:
Greiner pp. 64-78
Important Concepts from the textbook you should review
before lecture (write a short definition):
geodemography, arithmetic density, physiological density, crude birth rate
(CBR), total fertility rate (TFR), replacement level, pro-natalist policies,
anti-natialist policies, crude death rate, life expectancy, infant mortality
rate, population pyramid, age-dependency ratio, sex ratio, rate of natural
increase, population doubling time, demographic transition model,
epidemiological transition.
Geographies of Population
Part One: Talking about and Measuring Population
Talking about Population
- Geography + Demography = Geodemography (or population geography)
- How many people are there? Is the Earth Overpopulated?
Measuring and Describing Population
Population Density
- Crude or arithmetic density
- Nutritional or physiological density
- Agricultural Density
Population Growth and Change
- Population/Age-Sex Pyramids
- Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
- Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
- Crude Death Rate (CDR)
- Infant Mortality
- Percentage growth rate
After Lecture
What was the main point of today's lecture?
Important concepts covered in this lecture (write a short
definition):
One thing I did not fully understand today is:
What did I learn today that I did not know before?