Handwritten Notes

1. What are 11 characteristics of populations
that we will study this year?












2. What is population density?





3. What three things does population density
reflect about a country?





4. Where do 90% of the world’s people live?




5. Where do 2/3 of those people live?




6. Where do many people live?




7. What are four areas of large population clusters?
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8. What are seven characteristics that make
areas favorable for settlement?












9. What are three examples of available
natural resources that attract people?





10. What are the three factors that determine
the number of people in a place?





11. What is migration?




12. What are emigrants?




13. What are immigrants?




14. What are refugees?




15. What influences the route the people follow when they migrate?
16. What are three aspects of the cultural
landscape that are influenced by migrations?





17. What are six factors that influence growth
rates?







18. Where are the highest population growth
rates found?






19. Where are the lowest population growth
rates found?






20. What is culture?





21. What are three ways that we learn about our
culture?






22. What are 13 important parts of culture?






23. How do regional landscapes reflect cultural
characteristics of their inhabitants?






24. What are culture regions?





25. Which two countries are their own culture
regions?





26. Which continent has countries with many
culture regions inside them?





27. What is an ethnic group?






28. What divides culture regions and separates
members of one ethnic group?





29. What two things have brought about
culture change?






30. When does diffusion occur?



31. What may slow diffusion?





32. What may aid diffusion?





33. What two things are spreading culture traits
more quickly than ever before?






34. What is globalization?






35. In which country do you often find the roots
of globalization today?





36. What is traditionalism?






37. Which three aspects of culture can either
link or divide regions?

Video Worksheet

38. What is the single most important reason
that the world’s population continues to
rise?

Notes Worksheet

39. What influences the routes and patterns of
cultural diffusion and migration?





40. What spreads easily among places that
have a common language?





41. What can language differences be?






42. What is the most widespread language in
the world today?





43. English is the main language of which two
things?






44. Which language is now spoken by millions
as a second language?





45. What are two ways that religions can
greatly affect the cultural landscape?








46. What is a key component of many conflicts
around the world?






47. What is polytheism?






48. What is monotheism?






49. What are the three monotheistic religions?

Push and Pull Factors Worksheet

50. What are nine push factors?
















51. What are six pull factors?