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Geography Grade 9 - Lesson Note

1. The document provides notes from a geography lesson for grade 9 students on the topic of human population and economic activities. It defines key concepts like population, population geography, and population explosion. 2. Population refers to the total number of humans in a specific area at a given time. Population geography focuses on population-space relationships and how changes in population size, composition, and location can impact policy. 3. The world's population has grown continuously since the 15th century due to factors like advances in medicine, agriculture, and living standards. Population growth affects socioeconomic development and environmental quality.

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Geography Grade 9 - Lesson Note

1. The document provides notes from a geography lesson for grade 9 students on the topic of human population and economic activities. It defines key concepts like population, population geography, and population explosion. 2. Population refers to the total number of humans in a specific area at a given time. Population geography focuses on population-space relationships and how changes in population size, composition, and location can impact policy. 3. The world's population has grown continuously since the 15th century due to factors like advances in medicine, agriculture, and living standards. Population growth affects socioeconomic development and environmental quality.

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ETHIO NATIONAL SCHOOL

RD
2020 G.C 3 QUARTER GEOGRAPHY LESSON NOTE for GRADE 9
 Dear students:- Copy the note and do the given homework on your exercise book!
Subject Geography Grade & section 9 A- F
Unit፡ 3
Main topic human population and economic activities
Sub topic/s 3.1 concept and facts about human population
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Tuesday Date March 31/2020
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3.1 concept and facts about human population
• Population refers to the total number of human inhabitants of specific area such as city, country
or continent at a given time
• Population geography is concerned mainly with the spatial analysis of human population. it focuses
on population -space relationship
• The human population is studied for many reasons including the f.f ፦
፨ It is very dynamic in nature
፨ Changes in the size, composition, structure and the location of human populations can have
policy implications
፨ In order to adjust situations to existing realities
፨ important for planning
፨ Human population is the main productive force and creator of material wealth
• The world's population has been experiencing continues growth since the 15th century
• The rapid increase in the size of human population is attributed to many factors that include፥
* Advancements in scientific knowledge
* Humans ability to control famine and disease
* The relatively lower cost of importing vaccines, antibiotics, insecticides and high -yielding
verities of seeds
* Improvement in peoples living conditions
* Increase in life expectancy
• Population growth has a direct effect on socio-economic development and on the quality of the
environment of a given society
• The distribution of human population shows great variation or unevenly distributed (refer table 3.1,
3.2 and 3.3 from your text book)
Home work
1 why is studding human population important?
2 what is population explosion?
3 for what purposes, do you think, governments use population data?
4 do it activity 3.2 from your textbook
•NB dear students please do it in advance
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WEDNESDAY
A sources of population data
• population data refers to population information, such as number, age, marital status, births,
deaths, occupation, religion, educational status and other characteristic of human population
• Population information is important for many reasons that include the following ፦
¡ it provides statistical information for making decisions related to social and economic affairs
¡¡ it indicates future requirements of the population
¡¡¡ it help policy makers to forecast the needs of the population and to understand how to meet
them
፨the following among the most commonly used methods of gathering information about human
populations፦
1 population census
2 sample survey
3 vital registrations
1 population census
• Census is usually defined as* the total processes of collecting, analyzing, compiling and
publishing demographic, economic and social data of all persons in a country at a specified
time*
•the first census in Ethiopia was conducted in 1984
•census in Ethiopia is conducted every ten years
፨main features of census
♦ Government sponsorship
♦ Defined territory
♦ Universality
♦ Simultaneity
♦ Individual Units
♦ Periodicity
♦ Expensiveness
Home work
Explain the following questions briefly
1 What is population data?
2 Explain the importance of population information
3 Describe the main features of census
4 please do it activity 3.4 numbers 2&3 from your textbook

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