AP Human Geography

•Pick up the article on your way in. Read and answer the questions, but don’t write on it!•Put your homework and your binder on your desk. I will come around and check your binder.

Vocab I forgot to include in your other

lessonsOops…

Cartograms!

• Cartograms distort maps based on statistics (countries with more of something are bigger)

Ecumene

• The permanently heavily inhabited parts of the earth

GNP per capita

• How would you calculate GDP per capita?

GDP and GNP• GDP per capita—

Gross Domestic Product per capita• Value of all goods and

services in a country per person• Total value of

goods/population

• GNP per capita—Gross national value per capita• Basically the same

thing

Standard of Living

• Level of wealth, comfort, and quality of life (education, health care, etc) in an area• USA not #1!

LDC and MDC

• LDC—Less Developed Country• MDC—More developed country

Rule of 70

• 70/rate of natural increase = doubling time

• Doubling time—How long it will take country to double it’s population

• Ukraine= -.4 (my bad)• USA=.4• Niger=3.9

Overpopulation

• Youth bulge—big # of kids• Carrying Capacity—

Maximum number of people an area can sustain• Overpopulation—

Exceeding your carrying capacity

Pictionary!• GDP• GDP per capita• Carrying Capacity• Stage 1• Stage 2• Stage 3• Stage 4• Rate of natural increase• LDC• MDC• Malthus• Neo-Malthusian

• Pro-Natalist Policy• Anti-natalist policy• One child policy• Ageing/greying population• Ecumene• Youth bulge• Infant mortality rate• Literacy rate• Census• Physiological Population Density• Arithmetic population density