Human Geography Unit Review:
Chapter 11: Overpopulation
• demography
• census
• developed country
• developing country
• crude birth rate
• total fertility rate
• crude death rate
• natural increase
• “Rule of Seventy”
• exponential rate of increase
• doubling time
• immigration rate
• emigration rate
• net migration rate
• life expectancy
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• Demographic Transition Model
• age structure
• dependency ratio
• population pyramid
• cohorts
• stages if demographic growth
o early expanding
o stable
o expanding
o contracting
•China’s “one child policy”
• population distribution
• ecumene
• population density
• crude density
• factors in population density
• Thomas Malthus
• arable land
• carrying capacity
• “The Population Bomb”
• nutritional density
Population – Should be able to:
- Analyze the global threats to the planet caused by population growth.
- Discuss solutions to overpopulation.
Chapter 12: Living Standards and Poverty
• gross domestic product (GDP)
• per capita GDP
• gross national income (GNI)
• Human Development Index (HDI)
• HDI indicators:
o education
o health
o standard of living
• developed countries
• First World
• newly industrialized countries
• developing countries
• highly indebted poor countries (HIPCs)
• Third World
• standard of living indicators
• poverty line
• poverty cycle
• measures of poverty
• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Structural Adjustment Program
• multinational corporation
• debt solutions
o debt reduction
o debt forgiving
• UN Millennium Development Goals
• Women and poverty
• Children and poverty
• Infant mortality rate
• aid solutions
o bilateral aid
o multilateral aid
o Official Development Assistance
o Canadian International Development Agency
o tied aid
Living Standards – be able to:
1. Describe some realistic strategies that would enable developing countries to improve their standards of living.
2. Analyze the global threats to the planet caused by increased standard of living.
3. Describe the various causes of poverty.
4. Compare Canada’s standard of living with those of a developing nation.
5. “The greatest tragedy in the world today is the gap between the rich and poor.” Evaluate this statement.
6. Discuss solutions to poverty at different levels.
Chapter 13: Environment
• sustainable development
• Brundtland Commission
• Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”
• groundwater
• aquifers
• water quality (human impact and impact on humans)
• fresh water – solutions
• ozone layer depletion (cause and effects)
• CFC’s
• Montreal Protocol
• Rio Earth Summit
• Green House Gases
• Greenhouse Effect
• global warming (cause and effects)
• global warming’s threats to Canada
• alternative energy sources
• Kyoto Protocol
• desertification/soil degradation (cause and effects)
Environment-be able to:
1. Evaluate the impact of global warming (or any environmental problem) on Canada.
2. Analyze the threats to Canadians regarding quality of fresh water.
3. Discuss solutions to environmental issues.
Essay:
Choose ONE of the following questions below to answer in a well constructed essay
1)Explain how population growth, poverty and climate change are all interconnected.
OR
2)Which issue should the world focus its attention on, slowing population growth, abolishing poverty, or achieving environmental sustainability (global warming and water conservation)?
OR
3)Outline a plan for the world to slow population growth, abolish poverty, and achieve environmental sustainability (global warming and water conservation)?