Unit 2

Population and Migration

What physical and human factors influence the distribution of population?
What are some factors that illustrate patterns of population distribution, and how do they vary according to the scale of analysis?
What are the three methods for calculating population density, and how can these calculations reveal different information about the pressure that population exerts on the land?
How does population density affect political, economic, and social processes as well as the environment and natural resources?
How do patterns of age structure and sex ratio vary across different regions?
How can population pyramids be used to assess population growth and decline and to predict markets for goods and services?
What are the demographic factors that determine a population's growth and decline?
How do geographers use the rate of natural increase and population-doubling time to explain population growth and decline?
How do social, cultural, political, and economic factors influence fertility, mortality, and migration rates?
How can the demographic transition model be used to explain population change over time?
How does the epidemiological transition model explain causes of changes to the death rate?
How do the theories of Thomas Malthus and Ester Boserup explain population change and its consequences?
What are the political, social, and economic consequences posed by an aging population?
What are the political, economic, and cultural effects of migration?
What are the different types of migration?

Identify the factors that influence the distribution of human populations at different scales.
Define methods geographers use to calculate population density.
Explain the differences between and the impact of methods used to calculate population density.
Explain how population density and distribution affect society and the environment.
Explain ways that geographers depict and analyze population composition.
Identify and explain factors that account for contemporary and historical trends in population growth and decline.
Explain theories of population growth and decline.
Explain the intent and effects of various population and immigration policies on population size and composition.
Explain how the changing role of females has demographic consequences in different parts of the world.
Describe the causes and consequences of an aging population.
Identify and describe the various types of migration.
Identify and explain factors that encourage migration.
Explain historical and contemporary geographic effects of migration.

SS.Geog2.a.h - Evaluate population policies by analyzing how governments affect population change.
SS.Geog2.b.h - Evaluate the impact of major international migrations, both past and present, on physical and human systems
SS.Geog2.c.h Analyze the social impact of movement of people to different locations in a variety of time periods and locations throughout the world.