 |  Introduction to Geography, 8/e Arthur Getis,
San Diego State University
Judith Getis
Jerome D. Fellmann,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Population Geography
Objectives:After reading and studying this chapter you should be able to:
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Define the various measures basic to the analysis of population.
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Construct a population pyramid from data on age and sex of a population.
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Understand the cultural and physical factors which account for the geographic distribution of fertility,
mortality and natural increase.
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Determine any country's position in the demographic transition from knowledge of its birth and death rates
and population growth rates.
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Identify the differences in population growth characteristics between the developed world and the developing
world.
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Discuss the affects of HIV/AIDS on population growth rates in developing countries.
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Locate on a map the most densely populated and least densely populated areas of the world and explain their
geographic distribution.
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Distinguish between areas that are overpopulated and those that are not based on carrying capacity.
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Describe the relationship between urbanization and population growth and density.
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Discuss population controls over time. Differentiate between natural population controls and artificial controls.
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Evaluate Malthusian concepts of population growth in light of twentieth-century knowledge about
demographic processes.
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Define population momentum and describe its implications for future population growth.
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Understand the stages of the demographic transition model and be able to apply to present-day areas of the world.
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education