Chapter 4 Study Guide: The Human World



Chapter 4 Study Guide: The Human World

Section 1: World Population—

Be able to:

1. Know and use Chapter Vocabulary

• Demography

• Death rate

• Birthrate

• Natural increase

• Zero population growth

• Doubling time

• Negative population growth

• Population distribution

• Population density

• Migration

• Urbanization

2. Understand the factors that affect a country’s population growth rate.

3. Explain the challenges that population growth poses to Earth’s people.

4. Explain which countries are experiencing this rapid growth and where located?

5. Explain the challenges for nations experiencing negative population growth. Where are these countries located?

6. Explain the uneven population distribution of earth’s people. (pattern of human settlement)

7. Why countries of the same population may have different population densities.

8. Understand population movement (migration) and the reasons for it. (Push-Pull Theory)

9. Create, read and understand population pyramids

Section 2: Global Cultures—

Be able to:

11. Terms to know—

• Culture

• Language family

• Ethnic group

• Culture region

• Cultural diffusion

• Culture hearth

• Language families

12. Explain the elements of culture:

• Language

• Religion

• Social Groups

• Shared history

• Art forms

• Government

• Economic Activities

13. Understand, describe and map the various Culture Regions of our world.

14. Describe cultural change

15. Explain the Agricultural Revolution and how the world was changed.

16. Locate and describe early Culture Hearths. What features did they have in common?

17. Describe the importance of the Industrial Revolution and the important inventions created and the social changes that resulted.

18. Describe the importance of the Information Revolution and the important inventions created and the social changes that resulted.

19. Study your notes on the Developed and Developing World.

Section 3: Political and Economic Systems

Be able to

20 Terms to know:

• Unitary system

• Federal system

• Confederation

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Dictator

• Totalitarian

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Traditional economy

• Market economy/ Free enterprise/ capitalism

• Command economy

• Mixed economy

21. Know the characteristics of a country

22. Know examples for all the above terms

Section 4: Resources, Trade and the Environment

Be able to

23. Terms to Know:

• Natural resource

• Developed country

• Developing country

• Industrialization

• Free trade

• Pollution

• Primary

• Secondary

• Tertiary

• quaternary

24. Know the difference between nonrenewable and renewable resources

25. Know the impact of human activities on the environment

26. What factors determine a country’s economic development and trade relationships

27. Trade Organizations and their purpose

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