Our World

Class Summary 1-31

Class Summary 1-31
January 31, 2006
Block Four

Homework:
Review notes taken in class and finish the Globalization and Diversity Chapter One Questions packet. Read through page 30 if you have not already done so.

Notes:
Population Statistics
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)- The average number of children born to a woman...

• 2.8 World
  
• 1.4 Europe
  
• 5.2 Africa
  

Population Pyramids
Show gender and percentage of the population in specific age groups. (See pg. 12; figure 1.14 for an example)

The Demographic Transition
1. High birth rate and high death rate.

2. Death rate falls dramatically while birth rate stays high.
-improved public health, common medicine and economic development.

3. Death rate is low and birth rate begins to fall
-urbanization and industrialization

4. Low birth and death rate.

Migration Patterns
Today about 125 million (2% of the world) internationally migrates.

• Push factor- Negative conditions such as oppression, way, or natural disasters.
  
• Pull factor- Favorable conditions such as opportunity, freedom, or climate.
  
  

Urban World
Mexico City and Sao Paolo, Brazil

• More than 20 million residents
  
• 10,000 new people migrate there each week
  
• Predicted to double in 15 years
  
  

Urbanized Population

• 47% of the world
  
• Over 75% in Europe, Japan, Australia and the US
  
• Less than 50% in developing countries
  
  

Movie:
Earthly Visions Study Guide (we'll be going over the worksheet tomorrow in class)

posted by Anonymous @ 1/31/2006 08:13:00 PM