Geography. Козлова Е.П. - 11 стр.

2.8 Answer the following questions

What does topical (regional) geography investigate?
What is called physical geography?
What aspects of physical geography are studied separately?
What can you say about mathematical geography?
What does human (economic, political, urban) geography deal with?
How is regional geography subdivided?

2.9 Retell the text “Geography”
2.10 Text for written translation

      One of the central problems in human geography is to explain the distribution
and characteristics of people – this is the province of population geography.
Population geography examines particularly the distribution of population in relation
to its various characteristics, such as growth, number, density, age, sex, fertility,
mortality, natural increase, and occupations, divisions into rural and urban, ethnic,
linguistic, or religious groupings; and migrations. Some geographic studies are
concerned mainly with spatial distribution, spatial mobility, or spatial diversity in
relationship to environment or resources, all of which are often depicted on maps.
Other studies are more concerned with fertility, mortality, population growth, and
forecasting through the use of demographic models.
      Interest in population geography in the second half of the 20 th century has been
heightened by the sharp and growing contrast between economically developed
countries (which have long experienced a demographic transition from high to low
birth and death rates and thus to low rates of population increase) and the less –
developed countries (in which death rates have declined dramatically but birth rates
have remained high, resulting in rapid population growth that has posed extremely
difficult problems). The emphasis in population geography has shifted to effect how
much less people are bound to the land as a result of transformation in agriculture,
increased industrialization, improved transportation and trade, changes in sources and
forms of energy, urbanization and the expansion of service industries.

2.11 Make up all possible types of questions to the text 2.10

Read and smile                  Inky hands and geography

      During a geography lesson the teacher is speaking to his pupils about the points
of compass. He tells them that when they are facing the north, the south is behind
them, while the east is on their right hand and the west on their left hand. Just then he
sees that one of the boys, named Bobby, is not listening. He calls to him: "Bobby,
stand up and tell me what's on your left hand?" Bobby stands up and says: "Please,
sir, there's some ink on it, and I can't get it off."
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