Transcript World Geography

Warm-Up
Answer the following questions in the notes section of your
notebook.
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What is population density?
How does population density differ from population?
What factors influence where people choose to live?
Why do people choose to move to the city?
World Geography
Patterns of Settlement
What influences where people
settle?
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Water sources
Climate
Fertile soil
Central location
Economic activities
Natural resources
Do settlement patterns change
over time?
• Absolutely!!!!
• The discovery of valuable resources, construction of new
transportation routes, or new technology can attract people.
Urban Centers - Vocabulary
• Suburbs
• Metropolitan region
• Squatter
settlement/shanty
town
• Infrastructure
Structure of a City
Central Business
District
Residential
Suburbs
Squatter
Settlements
Writing Samples
Process by which city’s grow by 100,000 people a year.
Urbanization overall has a negative affect on people. Lack of
supplies, and negative population affting the people.
Urbanization is the process by which cities grow. Many
people choose to move to the city for job opportunities and
access to services. However, urbanization overall has a negative
effect on people. When the city grows at too quickly of a rate,
there can be lack of supplies, as well as pollution, which affects
the people.
Writing Samples
Urbanization is the process in which cities grow larger.
Urbanization can cause harm to people in an urban area. No
housing, lack of food, and crime can be very harmful effects of
urbanization.
Writing Samples
Urbanization makes a city grow and may be important to
it but what about the residents that have lived there before?
Negative impact. Less jobs and transportation would be some
of the problems caused by urbanization.
Urbanization is the growth of cities and can be a concern
to the residents who live there. However, urbanization can have
a negative impact on urban residents. Less jobs and inadequate
transportation are just some of the problems caused by
urbanization.
APUSH Quiz
Define the economic theory of mercantilism.
Explain what role colonies play in mercantilism.
Thursday, September 11
1. Please pick up a handout and a workbook.
2. Warm-Up
Study the information on the handout and then rank the
countries from 1 to 3, with 1 being the most developed
and three being the least developed.
Levels of Development
Vocabulary
1. Human Development Index
2. more developed nations
3. less developed nations
4. newly industrialized/emerging economies
5. gross domestic product (GDP)
6. per capita GDP
7. standard of living
8. life expectancy
9. literacy rate
10. infant mortality rate