6 - Population growth

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 2

Population, Culture & Migration

Geography

Bilingual Education year 2

Mister De Graaf

Boss of Geography

This lesson

Topic: Population

• Small vid - globalisation
• Population growth (new theory)
• Excercises
• Finishing up: cultural portraits

Film John Rolfe - History of the US

What do you think this piece of film has to do with Globalisation?

ATTENTION

When you see this icon               on one of the slides, you should take a screenshot. These are important notes to copy later on in your notebook. 

www.worldometers.info

What kind of challenges does overpopulation give again? (look into your notes)

The overpopulation gives all kind of challenges

Global warming 

Resource sharing problems

Food shortage

Water scarcety

Housing problems

Excercise

Population Distribution

Population distribution

Population distribution: The pattern of where people live in an area.

Densely populated: Many people live close to each other in these places.

Sparsely populated: Few people live in these places.

Population density: The number of people per km2

Population growth #1

Natural population growth

Number of births

Number of deaths

Natural increase: The difference between births and

deaths, given as a percentage.

Population growth #2

Immigration - emigration = migration rate

Net migration: The difference between the number of

immigrants and emigrants.

Summarised

 Population growth =

(number of births – number of deaths) + (immigration rate – emigration rate)

Your turn!

1. Copy the screenshots you took into your notebook.
2. Answer the questions about population growth on the excercise sheet
3. Continue the project: cultural portraits