The first of our Five Themes

Today we started discussing Population and Settlement, one of the Five Themes of Human Geography. We studied Population Pyramids as a graphic presentation of the population of a country, broken down by gender and age.

Section 03 made their way through the PowerPoint, ending with a small group exercise. Sections 01 and 05 are a tad behind, since they took their quiz today.

Homework for all sections tonight is to read the section in the text entitled Population Growth and Change, which runs from p. 18 to the beginning of p. 22. Pay close attention to the following terms:

• RNI (rate of natural increase)
• crude birthrate
• crude death rate
• TFR (total fertility rate)
• population pyramid
• life expectancy

As always, don't forget to post on your blog!