GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neolithic Revolution, Population Geography, Division Of Labour
2 Feb 2017
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36. 5 million, 37th most populous country: adding around 85 million people a year. Demography: the study of population; demographers are people who study population but are connected to different departments such as sociology, business,etc from greek: demos- people, graphe- write. !1 getting older they have the issue of not having enough people to take care of the elder people: spatial distribution of population and the consequences with respect to global. Distribution: the spatial arrangement of geographic phenomena (spatial. Asia vs. all other areas: areas of population concentration, large areas of the planet are sparsely populated. Density: the number of a geographic phenomena within a particular space. Density varies depending on the spatial scale; low density but variation as southern. Canada has a high population density whereas northern canada has a low population density. What factors help explain the spatial distribution of population: physical geographic factors, some areas are more suitable for human habituation than others, some factors include:
