Grade 10, human Geography South Africa Curriculum

1. GRADE 10 (TERM 3)
MR SIMELANE
POPULATION GEOGRAPHY

2. • Distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations
are related to the nature of places.
WHAT IS POPULATION GEOGRAPHY ?

3. • Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of existing human
population exceeds the carrying capacity of Earth
• Under-population is having a low population rate than expected e.g Rural areas
OVERPOPULATION AND UNDER-POPULATION

4. • Migration – Movement of people from one geographical place to another.
• People migrate for many different reasons. These reasons can be classified
as economic, social, political or environmental:
• economic migration - moving to find work or follow a particular career path
• social migration - moving somewhere for a better quality of life or to be closer
to family or friends
• political migration - moving to escape political persecution or war
• Environmental - causes of migration include natural disasters such as flooding
HOW DOES POPULATION CHANGE

5. • Immigration is the Influx (Arrival/entry) of people into an area.
 Through Birth
 Pull Factors
Emigration the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in
another; moving abroad
 Through mortality
 Push factors
IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION

6. • Illegal refugees
• Environment
• Poverty
• Food and Water
• Unemployment
DANGERS OF OVERPOPULATION MOVEMENT

7. POPULATION
GEOGRAPHY
MIGRATION
IMMIGRATION/E
MIGRATION
5 DANGERS OF
OVERPOPULATION
UNDER &
OVERPOPULATION
SUMMARY