Class 9 Social Science — Chapter 6: POPULATION

What you'll learn

• ▸Population Size and Distribution
• ▸Population Density
• ▸Factors Influencing Population Distribution
• ▸Population Growth and Rate of Growth
• ▸Processes of Population Change: Birth and Death Rates
• ▸Migration and Urbanization
• ▸Adolescent Population

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- 6 POPULATION C an you imagine a world without human beings? Who would have utilised the resources and created social and cultural environment? The people are important to develop the economy and the society. The people make and use resources and are themselves resources with varying quality. Coal is but a piece of rock, until people were able to invent technology to obtain it and make it 'resource'. Natural events, like a flood or a Tsunami, becomes a 'disaster' only when they affect a crowded village or a town. Hence, population is the pivotal element in social studies. It is the point of reference from which all other elements are observed and from which they derive significance and meaning. 'Resources', 'calamities' and 'disasters' are all meaningful only in relation to human beings. Their numbers, distribution, growth and characteristics or qualities provide the basic background for understanding and appreciating all aspects of the environment. Human beings are p…

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Did you know?

• 💡 Globally, roughly four babies are born every single second.
• 💡 For most of human history, the world's population grew very slowly.
• 💡 More than half of all people now live in cities, not rural areas.
• 💡 The entire human population could stand shoulder-to-shoulder in Los Angeles.
• 💡 Antarctica has no permanent human population, only researchers and staff.

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