Chapter 2 (Population) Reading Guide AP Human Geography

  1. What is overpopulation?
  2. Where is almost all population growth occurring?
  3. What are the four regions that 2/3 of the worlds population live in?
  4. Why do you think 2/3 of the worlds population live within 300 miles of an ocean?
  5. What factors cause most of China’s people to live near the coast?
  6. How are the populations of Japan and Korea distributed?
  7. Where is the largest concentration of people in South Asia?
  8. Where do most people live in South Asia?
  9. Which islands are considered part of Southeast Asia?
  10. What makes Europe different than the other three regions?
  11. Where are the highest concentrations of people found in Europe?
  12. Where is the largest population concentration in the Western Hemisphere?
  13. What types of regions o humans avoid settling in?
  14. What is ecumene?
  15. What can the series of maps on page 49 tell us about the ecumene throughout history?
  16. Where is the largest desert region located? What are some of the deserts that are a part of it?
  17. Where are wetlands generally located?
  18. Why would people choose to live at higher elevations?
  19. What are the three types of density and what do they tell us?
  20. How do you calculate the arithmetic density of a country?
  21. Why do we see differences in arithmetic density in the same country?
  22. How does physiological density show us a relationship between resources and population?
  23. Why do MDCs have a lower agricultural density?
  24. Why do you think the Dutch have a lower agricultural density than the Bangladeshi?
  25. Identify and define the most frequent ways we measure population change.
  26. What is doubling time?
  27. Where is most natural increase located? What percentage?
  28. What is TFR and why is it higher in LDCs?
  29. What is IMR and what does it tell us about a country?
  30. Why does the United States have a higher than IMR than it probably should?
  31. Describe each stage of the Demographic Transition in detail.
  32. What was the agricultural revolution?
  33. What was the industrial revolution?
  34. What was the Medical Revolution and how did it affect LDCs?
  35. What is a population pyramid?
  36. In the picture on page 61, explain why Lawrence, Kansas has a unique population pyramid.
  37. Where are most stage 4 countries located and why?
  38. What was Malthus prediction on population?
  39. What do Marxists say about population growth and economic development?
  40. What are some reasons for declining birth rates?
  41. What is the epidemiologic transition?
  42. What is stage 1 of the epidemiologic transition characterized by?
  43. What is a pandemic?
  44. What are 3 reasons we may see a stage 5 added to the Epidemiologic transition?
  45. What has been the most lethal epidemic in recent year? Where has it mostly been occurring?