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Background Information
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Facts
What is the approximate population of the earth?
Is population increasing or decreasing?
Why?
- Improved medical/health knowledge
- medicines
- treatments
- diet & exercise
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Consequences
1. Overpopulation
2. Disease
3. Housing, food, water shortages
pollution
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Terms
Population density - # of people in an area, usually based on per square mile
Demography – The study of society using numbers – literacy rate, income, languages, race
Culture – The customs and habits that define a group’s way of life
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Terms
Political beliefs
- Pertains to government and authority
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Terms
Economic beliefs
- Pertains to money and how (where) to spend it
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The World
Approximately 200 countries exist today
4 Characteristics of a country:
- 1. Territory
- 2. Population
- 3. Government
- 4. Sovereignty
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Stuff
Nearly all countries are broken down into smaller political units. This is a Federation.
Confederation – a union, to join
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Types of Leadership
Authoritarian – A person or small group holds all political power
- Dictatorship – Usually gains power by military overthrow, by force
- Totalitarian – An attempt to control all aspects of society
- Monarchy – Power is gained by birthright
- Constitutional Monarchy – King or queen is symbolic. They have no real authority
- Democracy – The people govern (through representation)
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Government
Fascism – A radical, authoritarian ideology. Single party state. No tolerance for different thought. Will use violence/war to keep the nation strong.
Nationalism – a very “pro-state” ideology. The state is superior to all other states.
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Government
Militarism – Glorification of the military. Belief that the state must maintain a strong military that can be aggressively used to promote state interests.
Imperialism – The taking over of weaker nations for personal gain (natural resources)
Isolationism – The desire to stay out of world affairs, focus on the homefront.
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Economic systems
We will do an economic systems comparison on the board
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Resources
Renewable resources – Resources that once used, continue to exist
- trees, soil, water, wind
Non-renewable resources – resources that are gone once they are used
- fossil fuels
Natural resources- Materials found in the natural environment that people use to satisfy their needs
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Energy Sources
1. fossil fuels
2. water
3. wind
4. solar
5. nuclear
6. geothermal
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Economic Activity
1. Agriculture – Most common occupation in the world
- Subsistence farming – farming to feed one’s family
- Commercial farming – farming as a business. Growing crops to sell
2. Manufacturing
- turning raw materials into finished products
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Service industry – 3rd source of income
- police, tourism, retail, banking, advertising
A developed nation has all three
A developing nation usually relies on subsistence farming.
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Income
Gross National Product/Gross Domestic Product (GNP/GDP) – Total amount of goods and services produced by a nation in a year.
Per Capita GNP/GDP – Same as GNP but on a per person basis.
- Tells us the average yearly income.
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