Welcome to Year 8, to the Geography lesson!

 My name is Mrs. Sibel. I will be your teacher for Geography.

This is what I expect from you.
 Bring your textbook and your small light blue copy book for all our

lessons.
 For each lesson you will write in your copy book the following at the

beginning of the lesson.

 Date
 Topic
 Lesson objectives
 There will be activities to be done online for each lesson. These
activities will be attached to the Lesson as Quizzes or assignments in
Moodle.
 Make sure you do the activities within the given timeframe.
Books
GEOG. 2
CHAPTER 2:
POPULATION
Teacher: Mrs. Sibel
Population: The big picture
 This chapter starts by giving an overview of
population growth through history, including the
basic principles of how population grows.
 It estimates the global population distribution and
various reasons for global differences
 It looks at the impact of population growth on
resources, other species and the environment.
Week 1: L1
Our numbers are growing fast

Objectives

a. Describe how population increased over time

b. Define birth rate, death rate and natural
increase
What is population?
Population refers to how many people live in a place.
What’s Sudan’s population?
 44, 899, 917

What’s the world population now?

 It was 6000 in 2000. Has it increased or dropped?

 Open the world population clock

 https://countrymeters.info/en/World

 7, 825, 247, 735 and increasing. (note down the births and deaths) We will get back to

these numbers at the end of the lesson.

 https://countrymeters.info/en/Sudan

What if the world population increased so much that we ran out of land to live on? What
will happen?
Can we live to be 150? Why/Why not?
 Population numbers change over time.

 Global population levels, having grown slowly for most of human history, are now rising.
How does population rise so fast?

The three main causes of population change

1. Births - usually measured using the birth rate (number of live births per 1,000
of the population per year).
2. Deaths - usually measured using the death rate (number of deaths per 1,000 of
the population per year).
3. Migration - the movement of people in and out of an area.
Rate of change
 Births and deaths are natural causes of population change.

 The difference between the birth rate and the death rate of a country or place is

called the natural increase.

 The natural increase is calculated by subtracting the death rate from the birth

rate.
 E.g. If birth rate is 43.5 and death rate is 21.7 then natural increase is

43.5 – 21.7 = 21.8/1000 = 0.0218 multiplied by 100 to get the percentage

natural increase = 2.18%
 World population growth
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 Open your book on page 19 and study the graph shown.

 Describe the shape of the graph.
 The line rises very slowly at first- it is nearly flat- but it
starts to climb steeply around 1800AD. (It is shaped a bit
like the letter J)
 Read the text from A to G that explains how population
changed over time.
 Population growth has been high over the recent years.
 What do you think happens to the Earth if the
population keeps increasing?
 Population growth puts great pressure on the earth’s
resources.
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Current world population is 7,8 billion and increasing (According

to the World Population clock)
Why did the population increase in the 1950s?

 The agricultural and industrial revolutions

introduced mechanisation, improved food
supplies and living standards and rapidly
increased the carrying capacity of the land.
 Better water supply and improved medical care
reduced death rates while birth rates remained
high.
 The result was a population explosion, as
experienced in 19th-century
Switch to Slide Show to watch the video on Human Population through time
Switch to Slide show to watch the video entitled “How
human population growth impacts the planet”
Video links
 If the video did not play automatically use the link
below to watch the video on YouTube
 https://youtu.be/PUwmA3Q0_OE
 How human population growth impacts the planet.
 https://youtu.be/mRcxGJcBDVo
Population information
Why it is so important for the government to know the
population in the country?
 Data from the census inform a wide range of government,

business, and non profit decision making.

 Governments and nonprofit organizations rely on population

data to determine the need for new roads, hospitals, schools,

and other public sector investments.
 Population data is obtained during a Census (a count of

every resident of a country)

 Census data are also important for businesses as a source of

information about the population’s changing needs.

 Key words:
 Write a list of the key words and their definitions,
use the glossary on pages 142- 143 and your
knowledge.
 Population
 Census
 Industrial revolution
 Birth rate
 Death rate
 Natural increase
Plenary
 Go back to the world population clock.
Students work out
 No. of people born during the lesson time

 No of people dead during the lesson time

 Approximate world population at the end of the

lesson which gives us the natural increase.

End of Lesson.

 This marks the end of our lesson.

 Attempt the activity questions and submit your
answers for marking.
 Our next topic will be 2.2 So where is everyone?